Chennai Turns Landfill Waste Into Furniture, Bottles & Slabs After Huge Clean-Up
Featured image courtesy: The New Indian Express For years, the Perungudi dumpyard in Chennai was known as a mountain of waste. Today, it’s becoming a symbol of what’s possible when innovation meets determination. On this 96-acre stretch, more than 1.7 million cubic metres of garbage — equal to nearly 20 football fields — have been […]
Gujarat Government Unveils Massive Rs 1,161 Crore Aid for Student Empowerment, ETEducation
Gujarat has about 34,500 government schools, including nearly 32,000 primary schools, but faces serious gaps in manpower and infrastructure, with 1,606 schools running with just one teacher and over 19,000 teacher posts vacant. Gandhinagar: As Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel completed four years in office on September 13, the state government highlighted two flagship education […]
How Sharvan Patel Revived Rajasthan’s Wildlife with Khailis Ponds
On a scorching summer afternoon in 2022, wildlife photographer Sharvan Patel stood quietly near a dried-up waterhole at the edge of Rajasthan’s Tal Chappar Sanctuary. The land stretched endlessly before him — brown, cracked, and thirsty. A herd of blackbucks hovered hesitantly around the shallow pit, their hooves sinking into dust. A mongoose darted in, […]
Mosquitoes suck — but should we simply get rid of them?
The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls mosquitoes the “world’s deadliest animals”. They have good reason. Small, annoying but dangerous: this disease-carrying insect helps kill more than a million people in the world every year. Now, as the world becomes warmer, their domain could be expanding. Previously, mosquitoes were only a concern […]
What do SC guidelines say on DNA? | Explained
The story so far: The Supreme Court, in Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamil Nadu, recently issued guidelines to maintain the integrity of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples in criminal cases. The court directed the Director Generals of Police of all States to prepare sample forms of the Chain of Custody Register and all other necessary documentation […]
Indonesia mining: Government reopens nickel project in dive hotspot; environmentalists warn of damage
Jakarta: Indonesia has allowed a nickel mining company to resume operations in a pristine marine zone despite protests from activists and residents, according to AFP. The decision covers Gag island in the Raja Ampat archipelago of Southwest Papua Province, a world-renowned diving site located within the Coral Triangle.PT Gag Nikel, a subsidiary of state-owned Aneka […]
India’s First Chhole Kulche Vending Machine in Delhi
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in May 2025. “There will be failures, but I realised that if I hang around long enough, I will see success,” says Sagar Malhotra, a banker-turned-entrepreneur, who has become a viral sensation in the food industry because of his innovation. His journey sets an example of […]
How a Mumbai Woman Helped 500 ‘Tiger Widows’ in the Sundarbans Rebuild Life Through Fish Farming
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Australia approves world’s first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia
A regulator has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia infections, which are causing infertility and death in the iconic native species that is listed as endangered in parts of Australia. The single-dose vaccine was developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland state after more than a decade of research […]
Barnala Michael & Vishnupriya Build Eco-Toilets in Tamil Nadu Rural Govt School
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in August 2024. Just a while ago, students in the government school in Tamil Nadu’s Nellivasal village were forced to go out in the open for defecation. Without any proper toilet facility, they urinated at the corner of the campus building at night, creating a stench […]