urban farming

This summer, the hottest mango trend is knowing the farm it came from

The BJP has appointed Kewal Singh Dhillon as its Punjab president, a strategic move to appeal to the influential Jat Sikh community ahead of assembly polls. This appointment, alongside changes in Delhi, Haryana, and Tripura, signals the party's ambition to expand its voter base beyond urban Hindus in Punjab.

Filmmaker Mansoor Khan, son of Nasir Hussain, chose a different path. He left Mumbai for Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. There, he ran an organic cheese farm and a farmstay for years. This offered a life connected to nature. Now, Khan has shifted focus to writing. His journey reflects a desire for a simpler, unconventional lifestyle away from the city.

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Farmers in Jharkhand are facing devastating crop losses due to increasingly erratic weather patterns. Sudden hailstorms and unseasonal rains have destroyed harvests, leaving farmers like Shiv Kumar and Binod Sahu uncertain about their future. This climate instability, marked by rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall, is disrupting traditional farming and threatening livelihoods across the region.

As India grapples with unprecedented heatwaves, industrialist Anand Mahindra has lauded Jaipur's innovative rooftop farming movement. Residents are transforming their terraces into productive green spaces, creating cooler homes, growing their own food, and reducing energy consumption. This sustainable adaptation offers a vital solution to increasingly harsh summers, showcasing resourceful thinking.

Ancient cities, long hidden by dense jungles, are now being revealed thanks to advanced LiDAR technology. This airborne scanning method pierces through forest canopies, uncovering intricate city grids, terraces, and structures. These discoveries are reshaping our understanding of past civilizations, revealing more extensive and organized urban landscapes than previously imagined, prompting a re-evaluation of their societal planning and scale.

Uttarakhand faces a growing 'ghost village' crisis as over 1,700 villages become uninhabited. Livelihood scarcity, climate change, and fading traditions drive migration, leaving behind elderly residents and silent fields. Experts emphasize the need for imaginative solutions beyond infrastructure to revive rural life and make villages aspirational again.

Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy established Tech Bulls, Andhra Pradesh's first rural IT company, in Ongole, empowering hundreds of poor women from remote villages. This initiative brought technology-driven jobs to rural areas, enabling women to achieve financial independence and support their families without migrating. The company's success has expanded internationally, with a continued focus on social empowerment and promoting advanced technology education.