Chewang Norphel’s artificial glaciers exist to fill a two-month gap between when farmers need water and when the mountains supply it. In Ladakh, sowing begins in April and May. The natural glaciers that supply almost all the region’s water usually
Neeru Yadav funded equipment and coaching from her own salary to put the girls of Lambi Ahir on a hockey field ten kilometres away. Neeru Yadav wanted to play hockey as a girl in Narnaul, Haryana. Her family asked her
CBSE declared the result of the Class 10 Second Board Examination 2026 on Saturday, 18 July. The combined pass percentage across the main and second examinations stands at 96.78 percent. In the main examination held earlier this year, the pass
Hansa Mehta argued that ‘all men are born free and equal’ would not do. The final text reads ‘all human beings’. The drafting committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had a working text for Article 1 that began
It is the national tree and a familiar one. Its ecological job is less familiar: feeding forest wildlife in the weeks when nothing else is fruiting. Most Indians can identify a banyan. Fewer would describe it as load-bearing infrastructure for
For more than a decade, football coach Ranjit Bajaj has focused on one idea that extends beyond trophies, building young Indian footballers with the long-term ambition of seeing India compete at the FIFA World Cup. For generations, the FIFA World
The place where the Buddha is believed to have delivered his first sermon became India’s 45th UNESCO World Heritage Site on 25 July. Sarnath has been on a list for a very long time. It entered UNESCO’s Tentative List in
