Chandrashekhar Mandal Builds Digital Labour Chowk, India’s Job Portal for Daily Wage Workers
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in August 2024. January 2020 It was a rainy day in Delhi. Chandrashekar Mandal had just started work at his new finance job and was enjoying a cup of coffee from the balcony of his office on the second floor. As he stood outside, the glaring […]
Roads blocked, vehicles swept away: Cloudburst in Himachal, Uttarakhand; heavy rains trigger floods, landslides | India News
Devastation in Uttarakhand and Himachal NEW DELHI: Heavy rain, cloudbursts and landslides have battered Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, leaving a trail of destruction. The intense monsoon downpour on Monday night and early Tuesday caused major damage to property, disrupted daily life, stranded tourists, and swept away vehicles. Three dead in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh In Himachal […]
TBI Showcase 2025 on 18 September: Celebrating India’s Real Changemakers
The countdown is on. Not every hero seeks attention. Many simply get to work — healing, teaching, planting, or protecting — driven by purpose, not praise. Now their moment is almost here. In just two days, on 18 September 2025 at 6 pm, their work will take centre stage. Optum Presents The Better India Showcase, […]
Dawn of artificial mummification pushed back 5,000 years
Examples of Early and Middle Holocene human burials from southern China. This figure shows six human burials from Huiyaotian in Nanning and Liyupo in Long’an, both shell-midden sites located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. | Photo Credit: PNAS 122 (38) e2515103122 Archaeologists working in southeast Asia have long been puzzled by pre-farming burials dating […]
7 Indian Grandmas Who Turned Cooking Passion into Successful Food Businesses
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in July 2024. It wouldn’t be a stretch to call food the lingua franca of grandmothers across the world. Their delicious concoctions are a quick fix to life’s curveballs. Feeling unwell? Grandmas have just the right prescription; a warm bowl of soup. Had your heart broken? […]
Why do our brains fall for optical illusions?
A Kanizsa triangle. | Photo Credit: Fibonacci (CC BY-SA) A: Our brains fall for optical illusions because of the ways in which they perceive the world, including using contextual information, shortcuts, and predictions. Among other patterns, the brain assumes light comes from above, fills missing edges, and exaggerates contrasts. While these tricks help us navigate […]
10 Legends Who Changed India’s Story: Rare Photos That Capture Their Legacy
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Bending ice could explain how lightning is born in thunderstorms
Ice is almost everywhere on the earth — in glaciers, snow, and clouds. Despite being so common, it still hides mysteries about its physical properties. A long-standing puzzle concerns its electrical behaviour. Every water molecule is polar, meaning it has a positive and a negative end. But when water freezes into ordinary hexagonal ice (known […]
Bihar Government to Reward Top Tech Students with Laptops Under New Initiative, ETEducation
“>He was addressing a gathering of students and their parents at an event, organised to award the toppers with “Medhavi Chhatra Protsahan Puraskar 2025”, given to students securing top three positions at state-level in five streams. Patna: State’s science, technology and technical education minister, Sumit Kumar Singh, on Monday announced that students securing top three […]
How Dr Jogesh Choudhary is Growing a Sandalwood Forest in Rajasthan’s Desert
In 2017, while on a casual trip to Bellary in Karnataka, Dr Jogesh Choudhary found himself walking through vast stretches of sandalwood plantations. The air carried a faint woody fragrance, and the sight of thousands of trees left him wide-eyed. It reminded him of childhood tales, of sandalwood’s allure, the smuggling stories, and its rarity. […]