Tamil Nadu

One of the things that irked the district collector was that the bathrooms did not have doors. The girls were also made to change in the hall as opposed to in bathrooms or private rooms.

“I asked a constable to quickly get a birthday cake for her. She is part of the family, and we wanted to surprise her. We gathered together, singing Happy Birthday, as she cut the cake.”

India has one of the highest AMR rates in the world, which if left unchecked, will make even the smallest infections deadly.

Johny Tom Varghese is the additional director of the Tamil Nadu Fisheries Department and has been appointed as the Nodal Officer of Nagapattinam.

Honoured with the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, this brilliant scientist became the youngest director of BARC in 1996 after Homi Bhabha himself! #BirthAnniversary #IndianScience #ThisDayInHistory

“It would be in the interest of environment not to subject the entire population to burst firecrackers within a stipulated short time as it would lead to a larger volume of emissions within a short span.”

Upon receiving the call, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) K Roja and the ambulance driver M Arun Kumar set out for the village. But the duo came upon a bridge that was submerged due to rainfall. Little did they envision such hurdles in the path of their duty.

"Only 12 per cent of the 355 million women of menstruating age in India can afford disposable sanitary napkins. But, conservatively, these 42.6 million women will throw 21.3 billion sanitary napkins into a landfill in their lives."

Located amidst the undulating forested terrains of Western Ghats, there are no roads in this hamlet, and the number of temples far exceeds the number of houses!

Just yesterday, the Supreme Court ordered that only ‘green firecrackers’ can be manufactured and sold. Here’s what CSIR has in store to help implement the same!