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When COVID lockdowns left thousands of street animals starving in Patna, India, Varsha Raj turned daily feeding runs into a full rescue operation. Four years later, her APNA Foundation runs the city's first dedicated animal shelter and has saved over 2,000 lives.
Rural women in Bihar tired of losing profits to middlemen did something bold: they started their own company. Now Diyamaati FPC is transforming how 4,000 women farm, earn, and lead.
A Bengaluru space company just took a major step toward building advanced satellites entirely in India. GalaxEye's acquisition of StarOps brings together cutting-edge imaging technology and homegrown engineering expertise.
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When a shack appears in a fictional gated community, a new South African play asks hard questions about race, class, and who truly belongs. Playwright Amy Jephta transforms her own experiences into a story that challenges audiences to examine their values.
After a decade growing avocados across Africa, Harmanpreet Singh returned to Amritsar with a mission: teach Indians to grow this nutrient-packed fruit from a single seed. One tree can produce fruit for 50 years, turning an expensive grocery item into a lifelong harvest.
A payment system launched in 2016 went from zero to moving $3.4 trillion yearly, changing how nearly half a billion Indians buy tea, groceries, and everything in between. Now a policy shift may reshape what made it so popular: it's been completely free.
A simple storage solution in Bihar is helping 160,000 farmers escape the cycle of selling crops at rock-bottom prices. By treating grain as an asset instead of a perishable product, villages are gaining financial power they never had before.
Hundreds of kayakers paddled through Copenhagen's harbor waving Greenlandic flags in a powerful show of solidarity. The event marked International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples during a challenging year for Greenlanders.
India just secured round-the-clock renewable electricity at a record-breaking price of 5.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, proving clean energy can finally compete with coal on reliability and cost. Six companies won contracts to deliver 1,000 megawatts of solar and wind power backed by batteries, operating just like traditional power plants but without the pollution.
Italy just rolled out a major new program to supercharge solar energy development across the country. The FerX mechanism will support 10 gigawatts of new solar capacity, enough to power millions of homes with clean energy.
Scientists report major advances in sodium-ion batteries that could make energy storage cheaper and more accessible worldwide. The technology uses abundant sodium instead of scarce lithium, opening doors to affordable renewable energy and electric vehicles.
College students just proved electric cars can generate their own power. Their solar-covered prototype produces enough extra energy to add 30 miles of free driving range every single day.
A camera trap in India's Sikkim region has captured the first confirmed photo of an elusive Eurasian lynx at over 17,400 feet, proving these remote mountain rangelands are thriving ecosystems. The discovery adds to growing evidence that high-altitude plateaus once dismissed as barren wastelands actually support complex food webs with multiple predators.
A high-energy street dance movement born in Abidjan's working-class neighborhoods is giving millions of young Ivorians a creative outlet and launching homegrown artists to international fame. Biama dancers are racking up millions of TikTok views without any major record label support.
Aarhus, Denmark turned coffee waste into a success story with returnable cups and vending machines that pay you back. Nearly 9 in 10 cups made it back in 2025.
Health workers are fighting to protect children in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a promising vaccine shows early signs it could help stop a deadly Ebola outbreak. After losing more than 300 young lives, a breakthrough in animal studies is opening the door to new protection.
Health experts in Rwanda are offering new hope to people struggling with being underweight through practical, science-backed guidance. The comprehensive approach combines nutrition, exercise, and rest to help people reach healthy weights safely.
Small towns across Pennsylvania are turning new electric vehicle charging stations into tourist destinations, hoping to draw visitors to local shops and restaurants. The state has already built more EV chargers than any other in the nation.