In another horrifying incident, a 45-year-old schoolteacher in a Sangrur village, Punjab met with an accident late Friday. Nazar Singh’s bike slammed into a tree near his village. Unfortunately, a pack of stray dogs (that mostly feed on animal carcass dumped in the area), attacked
Bike thieves in London do not seem to be familiar with next generation e-bikes. On 24 April 2014, Ben Jaconelli securely locked his GoCycle electric bike on Hackney’s Kingsland Road and left. When he returned after 20 minutes, the bike was gone. This GoCycle costed Jconelli £2,500
The discovery of 211 new species in the Eastern Himalayas has become a subject of celebration for wildlife researchers engaged in the task of exploring secrets of Himalayan bio-diversity, identify new species and protection of its fragile ecology. The revelation was made by the World
In order to achieve the goal of making Indian capital a solar city, Delhi Government has informed that soon Delhi Secretariat will be the first Secretariat in the country to be powered completely by solar energy. Under the project a 3 MW ground-based solar
What do people in Andhra Pradesh, India do to welcome politicians to political events? They tie live birds to firecrackers and torn them apart. On Sunday, footage appeared on news channels showing some people stuffing a live pigeons into a rocket (fire crackers) and set
Dr Kishore Munshi, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has developed a water-less toilet – the Dry San Hygienic Rural Toilet. The toilet is designed as a solution for farming and tribal community living in Indian villages that faces water-shortage. The toilet doesn’t require water for
Baripatha, a tribal village in southwest of Bhubaneswar, is the first 100 percent solar-powered village in Odisha. The project was inaugurated on Firday by Nalco CMD Tapan Kumar Chand. It’s for first time that this village has experienced a life with electricity after a
India’s first solar-powered court was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in tribal dominated khunti district, Jharkhand. Khunti district court is a first of kind judicial complex in India with a rooftop solar plant. With it government has flagged off the national scheme for
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims 100% success in eradication of open defecation under Swacch Bharat (Clean India) campaign. Against a target of about six million toilets in rural areas, he claims construction of about nine million in one year. The irony is, rural people in the
Ministry of Agriculture conducted a study to trace pesticides and contaminants in samples collected from various outlets across India. The samples included vegetables, fruits, spices, red chili power, curry leaves, rice, wheat, pulses, tea and milk. Samples were also collected from farms and organic outlets