Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) organized the Uttarakhand Plastics Summit 2023 in collaboration with the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board on October 10 in which 250 plus industry representatives from different sectors participated on recycling and reuse of plastics used by industries by developing innovative technologies. It also witnessed participants, faculty members, and startups, including eight unicorns, founded by alumni …

Every small step counts especially if it is the challenge of climate change and restoration of legacy water bodies. That’s exactly what M3M Foundation has undertaken in association with Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) and Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) in village Palada under its Sankalp programme. A long standing pond fed by rains, which was almost lost is being revived …

Seventeen-year old, Trishla Gupta, a resident of Delhi and a Grade 12 IB student of  the The Shri Ram School, Moulsari, Gurgram, has converted an E-rickshaw into a garbage collection cum transportation vehicle in her colony and has also applied for a patent for mechanical compression innovation for an Electric Rikshaw. Her school has conferred upon her the Innovator Award of …

Almost two years after its launch in April 2018, national School Health Programme (SHP) under Ayushman Bharat, moved a significant step forward last month with the release of curriculum for nodal teachers along with constitution of a National Resource Group (NRG) of 40 members by NCERT on adolescence education under its School Health Ambassadors Initiative. SHP was launched in a …

O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has launched its 9th School—the Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability (JSES). The interdisciplinary environmental studies school in an Indian university will be led by the renowned environmentalist, Professor (Dr.) Armin Rosencranz, formerly at Stanford University, as its founding Dean.  It proposes  a transdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning by integrating perspectives from the natural sciences, …

Researchers at Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida have announced the discovery of two strains of plastic-eating bacteria that have the potential to solve the problem of plastic waste globally. The bacterial species namely Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain DR11 and Exiguobacterium undae strain DR14 were isolated from the wetlands adjoining the University by Dr Richa Priyadarshini and her team at the Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences. …