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This 60-YO Peon Celebrated Her Retirement Day In The Presence Of Her IAS, Doctor & Engineer Sons

The day of one’s retirement is always a memorable one. But the farewell ceremony for 60-year-old Sumitra Devi, who worked as a peon at Central Coalfields Limited Town...

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This UP Girl’s Hard Work And Dedication Catapulted Her From Being A Newspaper Vendor To An IIT Graduate

Anand Kumar’s highly successful initiative Super 30 coaches children from disadvantaged backgrounds for the IIT-JEE examination. Many inspiring stories of hardworking...

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Why An IIT Graduate Left His Cushy Job Abroad To Set Up Digital Classrooms In Rural Bihar

When Pramod Kumar, who belongs to a small village in Bihar, decided to prepare for engineering exams, he was struck by the lack of educational resources like textbooks in r...

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Why This Software Engineer Turned Artist From Bhopal Was Picked To Paint Scenes For A Film On Van Gogh

Van Gogh is easily one of the most reputed artists in the post-impressionist movement, which took root in France in the early 1920s. But the story of his tragic death is mo...

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Unsurprisingly, Gender Neutral Textbooks Make For Better Students

Last week, two researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) presented a study that suggests gender-neutral course literature help...

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New Chemical Assembly Process Opens Door To Atomically Thin Electronics

Simply, silicon is a bulk material. Silicon's semiconducting properties occur thanks to additional dopants added to its crystal lattice structure, and taking advantage of t...

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Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time To Upgrade Our Method Of Verifying Identity

On Monday, a Facebook user lost control of his personal account, as well as several business pages, for almost a full day, after a hacker was able to convince Facebook to c...

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Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...

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Now, An App To Find The Closest Blood Bank

Moved by the plight of people who frantically search for blood donors and blood banks during medical emergencies, a Bengaluru-based software engineer has developed a mobile...

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Ex-NasaMan To Plant One Billion Trees A Year Using Drones

A drone start-up is going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation. Bio Carbon Engineering wants to use drones for good, using the tec...

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