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Money Plant Turning Yellow or Rotting in Water? 3 Simple Care Tips From a Delhi Gardener
A money plant is one of the easiest houseplants to grow . It can grow in a glass jar of water, adding a touch of green to a windowsill, desk, or living room. However, yellowing leaves, rotting stems, and slow growth can leave many plant lovers wondering what they are doing…
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IIT Bombay Team Builds AI Tool to Spot Drought Risk 4 Weeks Early, Giving Farmers Time to Plan
A farmer can prepare the land, choose the right seeds and spend months tending to a crop. But there is one thing no amount of hard work can guarantee: rain arriving when it is needed most. A dry spell at the wrong time can leave the soil parched, crops struggling and an entire…
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How a Makeshift Pad With Tissues & Medical Tapes Helped This Mountaineer at 16000 Feet Above Sea Level
Imagine reaching a mountain camp 16,000 feet above sea level, only to realise that your period has started and you have no sanitary pads . There is no nearby shop, no easy way to restock supplies and no one around to ask for help. With another four to five days left at the…
- PM2.5 or PM10? The Pollutant Behind India's AQI Can Change What You Need to Know About the Air You Breathe
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IIT Bombay Is Cooking for 1,200 Students Using Waste!
IIT Bombay is feeding 1200+ students using waste. With support from IIT Bombay-funded startup Infixen, nearly 2 tonnes of garden waste generated daily are being transformed into cooking fuel pellets. At Hostel 16, this innovation is helping prepare meals for 1,200 students while…
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‘Healthy Food Can Be Tasty Too’: 20-YO Uses Whole Grains, Jaggery To Recreate Old Recipes at Her Farm Kitchen
“I understood that no dish is difficult to make if you are genuinely interested and really want to cook it from your heart.” For 20-year-old Visista, that lesson came from a kitchen, not from a classroom. At four, she stood beside her grandmother Lakshmi as she made chapatis for…
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Cyclone Arnab Turned Chhattisgarh’s Sky BLOOD RED!
Cyclone Arnab turned Chhattisgarh’s sky blood red! But is it a warning sign or simply science? The answer lies in how sunlight travels through our atmosphere. Sunlight may look white, but it contains every colour. When the sun is low on the horizon, its light travels through a…
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For Generations, These Tamil Nadu Villages Have Gone Cracker-Free to Protect Bats
In parts of Tamil Nadu, Diwali comes with an unusual rule: leave the firecrackers out . The reason hangs upside down in the trees. Hundreds of bats roost in village banyans and tamarinds. Rather than drive them away, residents have built traditions around protecting them. In…
- That Familiar Smell on Delhi’s Streets Before Winter? It Comes From This Flowering Tree
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An 18-Acre Forest Is Growing Inside This Hyderabad Development!
As Hyderabad grows, its grasslands are shrinking. But what if urban development could make room for nature to thrive? At Stonecraft Woods Shamshabad, 18 acres of a 60-acre development have been dedicated to a Miyawaki forest. Home to 4.5 lakh native trees, 141 bird species and…
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Beyond Ranthambore: How 8 Tiger Cubs Are Bringing New Hope for Rajasthan's Tiger Population
For nearly three decades, Rajasthan’s Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary had no documented successful tiger breeding. Tigers passed through its forests, but could they raise cubs here again? That has finally changed. Over the past five years, eight cubs and three adult tigers have…
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Ladakh Experiments With Saffron on Barren Land, Collects 22g in First 4 Days
In the cold, high-altitude region of Leh in Ladakh, land once considered barren is now producing one of the world’s most expensive spices. Saffron flowers have begun blooming here in less than 30 days after planting, offering fresh hope for agriculture in a region where farming…
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They Started by Picking Up Garbage. Now, Two Uttarakhand Schoolgirls Are Bringing Communities Together
In Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, the garbage on the roadside was difficult to miss. What was easier to do was walk past it. Manvi Rawat and Anshika Gaur, two schoolgirls from the hill town, chose a different response. Instead of waiting for someone else to clean up, they began…
- IIT Guwahati Team Builds a Water Treatment System That Removes 2 Harmful Contaminants in Minutes
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When a 100-Year-Old Peepal Was Cut Down, He Used a 50-Tonne Crane to Replant It. Now It’s Growing
In November 2022, when Bharat Sisodia and his team reached a site in Ahmedabad, they found a century-old peepal tree that had already been cut down. Only about six to seven feet of its trunk remained. For a tree that had stood there for nearly 100 years, it seemed like the end.…
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Bullied for Her Birthmark, Now a Miss India Finalist
“Nobody can love that face.” Today, she’s a finalist in Miss India Uttar Pradesh. ❤️ Born with a port-wine stain on her face, she grew up facing stares, cruel comments and bullying. At school, children told her she was weird and refused to sit with her. The hurt followed her…
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A Critically Endangered Pangolin on Shillong’s Doorstep: What Its Sighting Tells Us About Urban Forests
This story is part of The Better India’s new wildlife series, Species in Focus: 52 species. 52 stories. 52 reasons to protect India’s wildlife. One species at a time, the series explores India’s rare, endangered and lesser-known wildlife, their habitats, behaviour, ecological…
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85-YO Kerala Grandmother Teaches Children 3 Languages and Maths With Just Sand & a Stick
For the children gathered around her, a patch of sand becomes their first writing book, and their fingers become pencils. At 85, Indira Amma from Kerala is introducing young learners to the world of letters through a traditional method passed down through generations. For the…
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How an IAS Officer, Panchayats Revived a Dead River for 6,000+ Villagers Under Rs. 5 Crores
On the night of the Deepdan (a traditional offering of a lighted lamp), Kamlesh Malaiya stood on the new riverfront in Nakatuwa and looked at something he had stopped expecting to see: a crowd, gathered along the Singri River in celebration. Between 1,000 and 1,500 people had…
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A Day at IIT Bombay: How 1,200+ Students Are Fed Using Waste
Why is IIT Bombay Cooking With Leaves? IIT Bombay is turning garden leaves into cooking fuel, churning out breakfast, lunch and dinner for 2,000 people, cutting LPG use by 60%! India imports about 60% of its LPG, and most of that passes through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the…