India

Kumkum Dongre from Madhya Pradesh turned her childhood fascination for trains into her lifelong dream and became one of India's first female locopilots, commanding the country's first all-woman crew on a goods' train.

Quashing the sedition case against journalist Vinod Dua, the Supreme Court drew on the 1962 Kedar Nath Singh verdict. Here's what this judgment held.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued the draft Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2021 in which they proposed a blanket ban on a number of plastic items, amongst other things.

Karan Arjun Singh is a foley artist from Mumbai, who has worked behind the scenes of movies including Jab We Met, Sultan, Tiger Zinda Hai, Neerja, Krrish 3, Baahubali and more.  He talks about this underappreciated art in Indian cinema, and how he came to realise his dream.

While unsustainable palm oil cultivation is responsible for damage to the environment, when produced sustainably, it can halt deforestation, conserve biodiversity, improve the livelihood of smallholders and reduce the exploitation of indigenous communities.

Odette Katrak from Bengaluru and co-founder of Beautiful Bharat, a citizen-led movement is a behaviour change consultant is using her training to bring about a systemic social change in the mindset of many.

Punjab-based AgNext Technologies, an ag-tech startup has developed an NIR-spectroscopy, AI and machine-learning enabled device to help catch milk adulteration early.

Kishore Indukuri quit his job at Intel in the US and returned to rural India to start Sid's Farm. Named after his son, the dairy farm in Hyderabad has scaled up its operations through word-of-mouth.

Indian Railway Recruitment 2021: Candidates will not have to go through any examination for the recruitment process and will be chosen on merit.

Nav Bhatia emigrated to Canada in 1984. He fought racism and prejudice to become a self-made millionaire, and the first fan ever to be inducted in the NBA Hall Of Fame. Here's his inspiring journey.