EVERY year, February 28 is observed as National Science Day (NSD). On this day in 1928, CV Raman announced to the world his discovery of the Raman Effect which was to win the Nobel Prize for physics two years later. NSD was instituted in 1988 to mark his birth centenary. However, the National Counci
Striving to earn the title of India s first net-zero village, Meenangadi is giving farmers loans they never have to pay back - as long as they keep their trees .
P. K. Madhavan stood proudly next to a young, sturdy mahogany tree, one of 100 he planted three years ago on his farm in Wayanad district in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
P. K. Madhavan stood proudly next to a young, sturdy mahogany tree, one of 100 he planted three years ago on his farm in Wayanad District in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
Madhavan’s 0.8 hectares of land in Meenangadi village used to be lush with cash crops coffee, black pepper and betel nut but two decades of drought and unseasonally heavy rain have decimated his yields.
Now the mahogany plantation is one of his only reliable sources of income, earning him up to 5,000 rupees (US$67) a year and all he has to do is keep the trees