Puducherry

On March 28, the Supreme Court solicited the help of Attorney General K K Venugopal to help with a petition filed by Reshma Prasad, a transgender person, who said she was unable to register her Start-up because of a mismatch in the gender mentioned on her PAN and Aadhaar cards.

No more will transsexual individuals be forced to choose between male and female while filing their income tax returns online, thanks to Dr Sameera Mahamud Jahagirdar.

The award-winning predominantly blue-hued logo with a grid of muted yellow captures the essence of this francophone seaside town.

While it is common for most of us to scrunch our noses up in disgust at the sight and smell of drainage waters flowing through gutters, these school girls have found a way to generate electricity from drainage water and have developed a micro power generator to facilitate the same.

Impressed by Puducherry's initiatives in the health sector, Myanmar has decided to take a leaf out of the UT's book and replicate the model in its country.

The artisans in and around Puducherry and Tamil Nadu belong to some of the finest art and craft traditions of South India.

Developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, this portable device is being adopted by firms to facilitate easier ECG reading and expert consultation from remote areas.

Deaf Enabled Foundation (DEF), an organisation “by the deaf, and for the deaf”, is providing vocational skills to the hearing impaired.

Peter Van Geit and Vipula Kumar, well-known runners in Chennai, originally planned to cycle to Puducherry but switched to the more unusual mode of running instead.

The class 1 student and chess prodigy from Puducherry is taking the world by storm.