Tamil writer Su. Venkatesan, who has captured the 600-year-old history of Madurai till 1920 in his debut novel ‘Kaval Kottam’, won the Sahitya Akademi award for the year...
Sonapani Power Project is the name of a British Era heritage mini-hydel project located at Lum Kshaid in Meghalaya. It was set up in 1925, abandoned in 1982,...
Dasrath Manjhi, who died in 2007, was born in a poor labourer family of a village near Gaya in Bihar. His wife died without any treatment, because the...
The Leshka power project in Meghalaya s Jaintia Hills district has started its power generation through its first unit from February 2012. The Leshka project, being set up...
In January 2012, the Rajasthan Cabinet cleared the environmentally significant proposal to develop the Rajiv Gandhi Biosphere Reserve linking about a dozen wildlife sanctuaries and the prestigious Ranthambhore...
Mangalajodi wetlands are a freshwater swamp at the north-eastern edge of Chilka Lake. Mongalajodi, a part of Chilika Lake, 60 kms away from Bhubaneswar, in Odisha. It is...
Tobashi is Japanese for “fly away”. It describes the practice where external investment firms typically sell or otherwise take loss-bearing investments off the books of one Client Company...
Mattu Gulla is a Kerala’s local variety of brinjal. It was awarded the GI certificate by the Geographical Indication Registry (GIR) of the Union Government. The peasants staged a...
CIVETS refers to Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. This acronym has been coined by Robert Ward, Global Forecasting Director for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)...
Monterrey Consensus was the result of the 2002 United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico. It was adopted by Heads of State and Government...
