India’s attempt to regulate single-use plastic (SUP) kicked in from July 1, 2022, with the government imposing a ban on select items. It is part of the larger effort to reduce the use of plastic in the long term. But making India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new AIIMS in the Deoghar district of Jharkhand, which would be constructed at the cost of ₹1,100 crore. Modi opened the new In-Patient Department and Operation Theatre paving the way for the state to have a
On April 8, this year, the cabinet approved a scheme to supply fortified rice kernels (FRKs) through Public Distribution System (PDS) shops, Anganwadi centres and schools. In the first phase, rice in mid-day meals, renamed as PM-Poshan 2.0, served to pre-primary children
Leo Burnett India’s campaign promoting period education among Indian girls, The Missing Chapter won the Grand Prix award in the Sustainable Development Goals category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on June 24. Created for Procter & Gamble’s sanitary napkin
Showing more emotions at work could result in increasing the morale of the office staff in the present-day hybrid world of work, with 87 per cent of the working staff saying that it helped increase their productivity and their sense of belonging.
It’s been a decade since we first heard about “smart-class”. In these years, many smart classes have been set up in different parts of the country to improve learning outcomes by driving student engagement through animated content. While the “smart-class” concept has
The national standards body of India, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has developed an Indian Standard for ‘non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay,’ to recognise clay refrigerators made in India. The new BIS standard, IS 17693: 2022, specifies the construction and
Based in Lisbon, Portugal, Sancho Pancho is a company owned by Daria Demidenko, a Russian who moved to the city in 2015. The ingenious business turns leftover parts of fresh fish into healthy dog treats. Daria Demidenko has established the company by
Kusumlata is one of the 1.32 million Anganwadi Workers (AWW) who form the crucial last mile link in delivery of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). During the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in May 2021, she and an Anganwadi
On May 19, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief G. Satheesh Reddy in a statement said that every scientist must take societal needs into account. The senior scientist, who is also the secretary of the Department of Defence Research and Development,