Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has head-load of waste currency notes. The apex bank wants people from the industry to come up and make eco-friendly products from shredded currency notes. In the wake of the idea, RBI has entrusted National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad,
Metro saves us from a lot of city transportation hassles, but it doesn’t do much favor to the environment. In Bengaluru, metro pillars may soon go green, increasing the city’s greenery in a way not fathomed before. A city-based start-up, Hydrobloom, has taken leaf from
There are countless people in the country who do their bit for welfare of animals, especially dogs. But, a physiotherapist hailing from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has gone a distance to care for stray and suffering dogs. Aaditi Badam, a physiotherapist by profession has given up
She is not educated – reading and writing is an issue with her; so she only listens and memorizes colour codes to remember permutation and combination of wires to install a solar panel or build a solar lantern. This is no fairytale – it is
Very recently, two holy rivers of India, Yamuna and Ganga, were declared as human entity by the High Court of Uttarakhand. That implies one should look at the rivers as living persons. If it’s so, then we have already murdered them by choking into toxic
Animal expressions are always natural, unadulterated by manipulations, which only a human mind is capable of. These expressions and postures are amusing at times. Wildlife photographers know what it means to capture an animal’s expression. But their works are always a treat for eyes. So,
In a touching animal-rescue scene, a female elephant (20) and her baby were rescued at the Makkampalayam beat on Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, on Sunday. Villagers and forest staff spent about 50 hours to revive a female elephant that had collapsed due
Zabuza Labs has launched India’s first Virtual Reality game ‘Solarlight’- a zen-like puzzle game. Nashik-based developer has released it for PC and HTC Vive. No doubt, now more developers would wake up and try to join the local VR market. Thought, very elementary in terms
Voted to power in 2014, current NDA Government had made a commitment to clean-up River Ganges in five years by spending $3.06 billion. However, as per the January presentation, just $205 million was spent between April 2015 and March 2017. Following it, the National Green
Ten photographs from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition have been selected by the Natural History Museum for its book titled ‘Unforgettable Behavior’. The selected images show extraordinary, surprising and often deeply moving acts of animal behaviour. A short story also describes each of