Innovation

Native-to-India Safflower has immense health benefits, as well as great remuneration potential. Nandini Nimbkar and Anil Rajvanshi take a closer look at the opportunities offered by cultivating this multi-purpose crop.

One man from the village of Kalladikode in Kerala has become the saviour of his village during power outages.

Read how the city and people of Ahmedabad inspired renowned scholar Anil Gupta to start enterprises to give back to society.

A Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action programme implemented independently through a health, education, and employment centre has transformed Nandangram village in West Bengal by growing high-quality farm produce. Dhruba Dasgupta finds out more.

As the world’s population continues to increase beyond 7.4 billion, the challenge of efficiently managing the resultant municipal solid waste (MSW) continues to grow.

With her new design, the Bee Saver Bot, Kavya is hoping to represent India at the First Lego League - European Open championship in Denmark, and collaborate with the Indian government she returns. It's all in a days work for this twelve-year-old.

The quest to make India open-defecation-free continues. An organisation is contributing to the drive by offering a unique and sustainable solution in Rajasthan’s villages — EcoSan toilets.

In true jugaad style, this 13-year-old from Haryana has developed a bike that runs on solar power and doesn't plan on stopping there.

The startup, called Crappy Crap, has received seed funding from the state government of Karnataka.

The team, which has developed a prototype, now hopes to set up a startup to commercialise this project.