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Meet Mikaila Ulmer, the young entrepreneur who turned her family lemonade recipe into a growing business while donating part of her profits to help save endangered beesMikaila Ulmer was four when two bee stings in 2009 led her parents to encourage her to learn about the insects she feared. That research in...
Farmer noticed one unusual rice plant, selected its seeds for years and developed a paddy variety yielding 8,000 kg per hectareFarmer Indrasan Singh of Inderpuri from Uttarakhand developed a paddy variety after noticing one plant that differed from the rest in a cro...
Assam dairy cooperative introduces honey under ‘Purabi’ brandThe launch took place on May 20 during an event commemorating World Bee Day, which was organized by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers W...
Budget can follow ‘ande ka funda’ path to tap the potential in beekeeping, horticulture, and aquacultureThe government has not overlooked these sectors, but it is time to go beyond monetary support if we want to carve a space in the global mar...
UNDP India launches GRID for inclusive developmentIt contains 1,500 solutions, ranging from simple to complex in design, which can be implemented at the community level and these innovative...
Panel to review CSR frameworkThe committee will review the Schedule 7 of the Act that defines the activities on which companies have to spend their CSR funds.
Meet the woman entrepreneur with a passion for food and designWhen Gitanjali Budhrani isn't busy running her pub in Bengaluru, she takes to designing bags inspired by liquor.
How IIT-Delhi is going about creating an ecosystem for women entrepreneursThe spectrum of the businesses being mentored is broad — from organic farming, bee-hiving to tissue reproduction, online marketing to bakin...
Dissemination of frugal methods needed for innovative India: Anil K GuptaMentioning one more frugal measure of this kind, Gupta said that it has been shown in studies that cooking in iron vessel is beneficial for...
Next breakthrough to come from micro venture innovation finance: Pranab Mukherjee"The Make in India, Clean India, and Inclusive India, under which financial inclusion is of prime essence, needs a significant push," Presi...
Electro Magnetic Field emissions do not cause health hazards: Cellular Operators Association of India"India presently has 900 million mobile phone connections and more than 80 per cent of the population has access to mobile telephony," COAI...
India’s online retail sector: Racing down the last mileThe final frontier of the battle for top honours in India’s booming online retail sector is being fought on the logistics front.
Social entrepreneurs set up for-profit ventures to sustain non-profit entitiesThe not-for-profit arm carries out its activities as a trust, whereas a private company is set up for carrying out business or profit-based...
Treat entrepreneurs as role models, says EDIExperts also said there is need to create pools of risk capital that can back ideas and not just products and services.
Higher education: India lags behind China despite English language advantageChina has been consistently scoring over India in higher education for several years, as reflected even in previous rankings.
Bee-keeping business: 'Honey' Singh says no one in sight post Budget 2012India's 'Honey' Singh who controls 80% of the export market is unfazed in the wake of new sops given to beekeeping in Budget 2012.
Making markets work for the poor: Chit funds are the killer inclusion product, not bank accountsThe task of making markets work for them is to enable their money to stretch and buy them the things that they need.
- Slovenia: Ljubljana is a photographer's dream come true
Thanks to its location, at the cusp of several former empires, Slovenia is a delicious mix of many influences, as Pallavi Paul discovered.
- Dabur, Emami, Wipro consumer keep mkt buzzing
Till two years back, Gauri Sankar Mahato, a peasant from Nimdhi village near Chaibasa, Jharkhand, was barely subsisting on small crop that ...
- Honey bee research project for seven states
National Resource Development Board of Department of Biotechnology has sanctioned a network project "Morphometry and Phylogeography of hone...