Compact and portable solar powered pump sets are making irrigation easier and farmers using them say it has had a positive impact on their crop yield in Jharkhand.

While people living in cities have an option to choose from a range of sanitary napkins available in markets and they even have an option to choose among pads, menstrual cups and tampons, but women living in villages don't even know what pads are.

A primary school teacher in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur is motivating his students to collect plastic waste from their houses and make eco-bricks. The teacher also launches plantation drives and empowers senior students by inviting them to conduct tuition classes of younger students. Details here.

For development projects, like the construction of metros or bullet trains, authorities cut trees and then promise to compensate by planting saplings as many as three or four times for every tree cut. But how many of these saplings actually survive? The reality is hard to digest

The death of the scion of a popular tea brand due to an attack by stray dogs shines the spotlight on the world’s oldest disease, rabies. India accounts for 65% of the deaths due to rabies in the South-East Asia region, and 36% globally.