Telangana Has India’s First FIFA Academy for Girls, But Nobody Publishes How Many Girls Play
The state now has a national trophy and a residential academy, yet Telangana girls football still has no public count of players. India’s first FIFA Talent Academy for girls opened in Hyderabad in June 2026. A few months before that, Telangana won its first national trophy in the girls’ game. Both sit in the federation’s […]
Three Teenagers Turned Sugarcane Waste Into a Reusable Sanitary Pad
Team Udaan’s bagasse-based pad set out to answer two problems at once: what periods cost, and what disposable pads leave behind. Every sugar mill produces bagasse, the fibrous residue left after juice is pressed from sugarcane. Most of it is burnt for fuel or discarded. Anupriya Nayak and two schoolmates looked at that residue and […]
When Classical Dance Becomes a Classroom: How One Performance Will Help Educate 10 Girls
In Pune, a Bharatanatyam production inspired by the Pandharpur Wari is showing how art can preserve culture while creating opportunities for education.
Sarnath Is a World Heritage Site at Last, Nearly Three Decades After India Nominated It
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 1998 and stayed there while forty-odd Indian sites were inscribed ahead of it. On 25 […]
ISRO Is Attempting Seven Launches This Year. The Real Test Is Whether the Schedule Holds
The agency has outlined its busiest calendar yet, while the government has told Parliament that the first crewed Gaganyaan flight is targeted for early 2027. Space agencies are judged on the spectacular missions and sustained by the ordinary ones. India has proved it can do the first. The second is now the stated ambition. ISRO […]