He is a 400m runner whose event was not on the programme. Two months later he won the sprint, with a Games record, in his first serious race over the distance. At the 60-metre mark of the men’s 100m T47
Khagi was always harvested in West Kameng. Turning it into an organised trade gave the villages a financial argument for keeping the forest intact. Khagi is a wild Himalayan spice with a citrusy, tongue-tingling flavour, harvested for generations by Indigenous
Vaijnath Kale took in a boy from a Nashik tribal hamlet who had lost an arm. Twenty years later that boy is a Commonwealth Games champion. Dilip Mahadu Gavit was about five when he fell from a tree in Toran
Sheeja’s daughter was born with microcephaly in 2010. Her marriage ended soon after. Snehasandram now supports more than 200 mothers in the same position. On 25 March 2010, at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, Sheeja gave birth to her daughter Sandra.
A retired Army captain wondered why the lakes near his village stayed empty in a normal monsoon. The answer was under the roads. In 2017, standing at a farm near Muthanallur lake on Bengaluru’s outskirts, Captain Santosh Kumar noticed something
A new FDA commissioner shifted enforcement from testing milk at the shop to tracing it from the collection centre. The results have unsettled the state’s dairy trade. Milk is tested in India the way most food is tested: a sample
The food regulator has issued show-cause notices to three companies over alleged misleading claims and labelling violations, giving each seven days to respond. On 8 July 2026, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India issued notices to Lotte India
The reigning Under-20 world champion finished an unbeaten week in Hungary to give India its third title of the Ranking Series. The scoreboard read 3-3 when the women’s 76kg freestyle final ended in Budapest. Under wrestling’s criteria rule, the bout
All five Indian students who travelled to Colombia returned with gold medals, placing the country level with China, Russia and three others at the top of the table. India’s team at the 56th International Physics Olympiad has returned from Bucaramanga,
