Exide Industries is the country’s largest manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries and power storage solutions. The company recently announced its entry into the expanding e-rickshaw market in India by launching its first e-rickshaw model, Exide Neo. The e-rickshaw model will be sold across mar...
The government has retracted its plan of imposing a blanket ban on single-use plastics. The measure seemed too disruptive for various industries. The use of single use plastic has become one of the biggest sources of pollution, adding to landfills, contaminating food chains and filling up ocean beds...
Imagine if your nose were to be on top of your head, eyes on your stomach and a mouth on your feet. I’m sure that such an animal exists somewhere, because Nature hasn’t left any combination out.There is a newly discovered 4 mm marine worm in Scotland, Ampharete oculicirrata, which has a jumble o...
Durga Puja for Bengalis is both a time of religious and social celebration. A carnival like atmosphere prevails throughout West Bengal. But as businesses flourish during this time, so does the use of plastics. Most sellers provide items in plastic carry bags. For food items, many restaurants use pla...
Mesodinium chamaeleon, a strange green creature found in Denmark that lives at the bottom of the sea, is causing researchers to rethink traditional ways of classifying living organisms.Traditionally, there are differences between animals and plants:• Animals cannot produce their own energy and mus...
I meet so many mothers who won’t let their children walk barefoot in the house or the park, won’t let them touch snails, won’t let them grasp mud or go out in the hot rain of the monsoon, won’t let them near any animals and refuse to keep a pet because it might bring in bacteria. Their child...
In India, average temperatures have increased by 0.6 degrees Celsius (° C) between 1901-10 and 2009-18, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). This has resulted in warmer cities and frequent heat waves, disrupted rainfall patterns and increased frequency of extreme weather events. ...
My mind and body have instinctively always had the right feelings towards things that are harmful for the planet – it is almost as if my relationship with Nature is so profound that we think as one. I have always hated kites and plastic straws, for instance, long before I knew how many millions of...
When we were young, we spent two months every year with my mother’s parents on a huge farm in a village near Bhopal. We slept in mosquito netted beds in the garden, we shelled peas, roasted green channas, and played pittoo and all sorts of indoor games with shells and seeds. We were fed relentless...
“Mama, what does Papa do in office?”“He scares monkeys, darling.”What are the strangest jobs that involve wild animals?Every morning when I get to Shastri Bhavan, my office, I hear the sound of a man hooting. He hoots off and on the entire day. His job is to scare away monkeys. The mon...