Cocopeat has become a favourite among home gardeners because it is lightweight, easy to handle and useful in a wide range of gardening tasks. Made from the fibrous material found between the hard shell and outer husk of coconuts, cocopeat is commonly used as a growing medium and soil amendment. It can hold significant amounts … Read more
For some people, love does not end with goodbye. It simply changes the way it is expressed. An elderly auto driver in Bengaluru has been quietly carrying on a daily ritual for his late wife, even eight years after her death. Every day, he cleans his auto, places flowers inside the vehicle, and keeps his … Read more
Global warming is supposed to have one obvious effect on frozen ground: it melts.And this is what is happening across most of the world’s cold regions, from the Arctic to the Alps. But high up on the Tibetan Plateau, something strange is going on. Scientists have found that across roughly a third of the region’s … Read more
For most children, 6 am is still a time to be asleep. But for one little boy, the early morning has become a time for a special routine. Every day, he makes his way to a neighbourhood shop, sits quietly, and waits, not for a friend or a family member, but for a group of … Read more
A fake SBI SMS can look almost identical to a genuine bank alert. At first glance, there was almost nothing to distinguish the two SMS messages. Both appeared to come from SBI. Both carried the same sender-style header. Both referred to a failed debit-card transaction and looked like the kind of alert a bank customer … Read more
For anyone with a garden, coconut shell charcoal offers a genuinely useful, low-cost way to improve soil health. Once broken down and worked into soil, it helps improve water retention and aeration, creating better growing conditions for plants without needing any synthetic soil additives. Whole or halved shells also get repurposed directly as small planters … Read more
A Norfolk field was left untouched for over a decade in the early 2000s after farming there stopped. Nobody sowed a single seed. Nobody planted a single wildflower. The only human intervention was a traditional annual hay cut, which was followed by farmers for centuries.What happened next was no less than magical. Within ten to … Read more
When an Indian Railways officer named Ananth Rupanagudi posted a resume on X, he did not expect the response he got. He asked his followers to zoom in. To read carefully. To look at what this man had built in classrooms, in research halls, in conference rooms, and in journal pages and to ask themselves … Read more
For a young person seeking his or her first proper job, the traditional career ladder is simple: study, find an entry-level position, learn the ropes and grow within the company. However, as artificial intelligence begins to perform more tasks normally done by humans, this well-trodden path is at risk of disappearing for some professions. According … Read more
A burnt dish can leave more than a ruined meal behind. The sharp smell of scorched food can linger in the kitchen for hours and sometimes spread into nearby rooms. Smoke and odour can settle on curtains, towels, and other fabrics, making the smell harder to remove. Simply opening a window may help, but it … Read more