Kolkata Municipal Corporation parks department is facing challenges in keeping 2.5 lakh saplings alive across 144 wards due to water scarcity. Learn more about the efforts to save the plants.
Mangaluru: The delay in the arrival of KSRTC buses deployed for poll work resulted in many students who depend on the state-run transportation service.
Check out the ginger shots on supermarket and health store shelves these days. The intensely flavoured ginger juice concentrate, brimming with natural goodness and medicinal properties, is also a hit at juice bars and restaurants. Celebrities who are fans of ginger shots include singer-actress Selena Gomez and actresses Eva Longoria and Anna Kendrick. And chefs across the globe use ginger.
Copper mugs, cups, water bottles and jugs are in demand as health-conscious consumers learn of the health benefits from drinking copper-infused water. Indian grannies have been drinking water like this for centuries. My own paternal grandmother, who lived to the age of 89, slept with a copper jug of water on her bedside table, from which she drank first thing.
Known in Ayurveda as “nature’s pharmacy”, the neem tree and its components have been an integral part of traditional Indian medical formulations for almost 5,000 years. Also called Indian lilac in English, and “neemba” in Sanskrit, the plant – scientific name Azadirachta indica – teems with 130 biologically active compounds, some of which have antiviral and antibacterial qualities, some of.