In one of the bustling streets of Mumbai’s Khetwadi area, a heritage building has been serving as a thriving oasis for visual arts programmes that come under Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) University’s College of Arts. Restored and inaugurated as the SNDT University — Jindal Centre for the Arts in 2015, the art hub (also called SNDT Kayashala) completed two years …
Last year, various departments of the state government and social organisations planted 2.82 crore saplings on a single day — July 1 — and earned a place in the Limca Book of Records. Now, the government claims that 2.14 crore or 76% of them have survived.The government aims to plant four crore saplings this year and 50 crore by 2019. …
Chennai: To help increase the green cover in the city outskirts, the concept of seed balls may be becoming popular among nature lovers, but experts claim that these balls are more suitable for forest areas and not city landscapes. As the city’s radius is increasing and green cover is losing its place in some parts of the city, many like-minded …
