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As a housewife and mother of three, Rekha Kumari from Hathua in Bihar had her hands full for years until her children grew up and left home for further education.
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Not the one to sit idle, she decided to use the time she now had to explore farming and entrepreneurship together through a mushroom business.
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Along with this, Rekha also sells mushroom-based products like powder, pickles, biscuits, samosas, namkeen, and laddoos and has trained thousands in mushroom farming through her learnings over the years.
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In 1875, in an officers’ mess in the city of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Chamberlain experimented with the classic game of black pool by adding many coloured balls to the existing 15 red balls and a black ball.
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Thus, the game of snooker was born.
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has also proudly declared India as the birthplace of Snooker on its website.
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Today we remember the contributions of those extraordinary people who, through their special craft and resolve, engineered the foundation of the many technological marvels we now enjoy. @vinoddham
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The Ministry of Railways, India, has recently tweeted some stunning photos of the Chenab bridge, captioning, "A sight of the breathtakingly beautiful Chenab Bridge" on their official channel.
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The Chenab bridge is the world's highest rail bridge, constructed at 1178 ft above the river. The bridge has recently been fully built and inaugurated in August this year.
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K Madhavan kickstarted his first project in Perinthalmanna, Malappuram district (Kerala). He made use of the unwanted laterite soil from the owner's neighbourhood and turned it into compressed, stabilized interlocking blocks. @watershedman
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“Using an imported block-making machine, we made about 7,000 bricks, enough to meet the requirements of Jose’s 700-sq-ft first floor. Instead of reinforced cement concrete, we used coconut timber for truss work & bamboo ply for the false ceiling.
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But the challenge had only begun. I was not an experienced builder with neither manpower nor infrastructure.
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"Having practised as a gynaecologist for over 15 years, I held a prejudice towards unmarried and sexually active patients. Though I provided them with the same standard of care as my other patients, I must admit that I wasn’t completely judgment-free towards them.
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However,things began to shift drastically when I saw a patient in my clinic who came with complaints of unusually heavy bleeding.After much probing, she told me that she had consumed 30 tablets of the emergency contraceptive pill to abort her pregnancy as she was unmarried.
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Perplexed, I asked her why she didn’t visit me or any other gynaecologist before consuming the tablets. She said she didn’t dare to do so as she had previously felt humiliated at a gynaecologist’s clinic, for they shamed her about being sexually active and unmarried.