Karnataka

Architect Sanjay Deshpande from Hubli, Karnataka, has been harvesting solar energy at his home and office for the past two years. He explains what it is like to live life off the grid.

In a government school in Karnataka, a student-run bank is teaching children the value of saving, investing, depositing, and withdrawing money. Here’s a look at the School Bank of Mullur, started by teacher C S Sathish.

A team of engineering students from the Mysuru Vidyavardhaka Engineering College have come up with a solar mobile refrigerator for vegetable vendors, which is a low-cost way of storing vegetables for a longer time.

Karnataka entrepreneur Vidhya Y, who has been blind since birth, learned from her own struggles with her disability to empower thousands of visually impaired children with Vision Empower, an enterprise that encourages these students to pursue STEM education

From spreading awareness and sensitizing farmers, monitoring fields for rescue, initiating a contractual ban on child labour, incentivising those who refrained from it to implementing penalties upon violation, Bayer's Child Care Program (CCP) has been tackling the problem of child labour with a multi-layered approach.

Janhavi Kulkarni founded KaleNale to popularise ‘khun’, a fabric that contains both silk and cotton. Her efforts have led to orders from Switzerland, Germany, US and more.

Meet unsung hero Dr Kiran Prasad from Karnataka who works to rescue and rehabilitate bonded labourers, fighting years of casteism by providing legal aid to those in need

During the lockdown, Mumbai’s 64-YO Nirmala Hegde started her food business with help from her son Gautam. Here's how the woman entrepreneur tasted success by giving a Maharashtrian twist to South Indian food.

Wondering how COVID-19 variant Omicron is being tracked in India? We got Dr Vishal Rao from Karnataka’s Genome Surveillance Committee to explain what India is doing.

Under their VaxNow initiative, the CovidActionCollab conducted camps for women sex workers, transgenders and their families, offering general health counselling, mental health support, screening for non-communicable diseases, ration kits and free COVID-19 vaccinations across five states.