In yet another bid to tackle the problem of depleting groundwater, the Uttar Pradesh government has made it compulsory for new residential and commercial buildings to have provisions of rainwater harvesting. “All the buildings will be permitted in future after provisions of rainwater harvesting arrangements,” Rural Development Minister Mahendra Singh said in the assembly. He …

India’s most marginalised communities remain threatened by the upper caste community for reasons as petty as fetching water from well and also for marrying outside their castes.  In yet another recent shocking incident, a 25-year-old Dalit man was hacked to death by people of priviledged caste for marrying outside his community in Gujarat’s capital Ahmedabad. Reports say the incident took …

One of the major problems that the visually-impaired population faces is money recognition, especially for paper currency.  Working closely to alleviate this issue, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the government will soon make new coins of Rs 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 available to public. These coins will be visually impaired-friendly. Speaking in Lok Sabha while presenting Union Budget …

Food-delivery app, Zomato, on June 3, made changes to its parental leave policies. For women across the 13 countries it has presence, Zomato will be offering 26 weeks paid leave, or will follow the government mandated policy, whichever is more. In a landmark move, the 26-week leaves will be extended to men as well. “One core issue that leads to …

BJP’s Gujarat MP Mansukh L Mandaviya stole the spotlight by making an entry on his bicycle. Mandaviya is set to be a minister for another term in prime minister Narendra Modi government, which was sworn in yesterday at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in a largest-ever ceremony. Mandaviyais known for riding bicycle to the parliament, something he has been doing for the past …

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly all set to send microchips embedded with human cells or human organs as they are called. The objective is to find out travel to space affects human body. “The organs on a chip replicate human physiological function at the cellular level and have been designed to study those processes easier than in actual humans,” reads …

Now that every other person that you see around is busy on their phones, mindlessly scrolling through the Facebook or Instagram feed or just playing games. Rarely, you encounter someone soaked in a book. To help people get off their phones and indulge into actual reading, vending machines in London are not giving out chocolates cars or cans of drinks …

The two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a white supremacist killed 50 worshippers last week, reopened today. Many survivors were among the first ones to walk in and pray for those who died. At the Al Noor mosque, where more than 40 of the victims were killed by a suspected white supremacist, prayers resumed with armed …

afp One from Kerala, one from Hyderabad and two from Gujarat are among the seven Indian died in the terror attack in New Zealand on Saturday. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) No More Politician, ‘Star Campaigner’ Interviews 48 Hours Before Polls, EC Sets Guidelines AFP The Election Commission (EC) has asked leaders of all political …

Students at IIT Kharagpur, the top institute among all IITs in the country, have developed unique solutions to detect counterfeit currency, which remains a perennial issue in the country. Not just this, the students have also devised a solution to track nuclear radiation through wearable sensors. The solutions were at a display at the recently held Smart India Hackathon 2019. …