Meghalaya’s farmers are set to gain wider access to markets across India as @Flipkart signs an MoU with the Meghalaya State Agriculture Marketing Board. The partnership focuses on strengthening market linkages, building capacity and creating more opportunities for the state's agricultural and horticultural produce. A meaningful step towards expanding the North East’s digital commerce ecosystem.
Cancer patient was about to die. She pleaded. Her plea has been listed 57 times. The court has still not heard it. Teesta Setalvad was about to be jailed. She pleaded. Her plea was listed out of turn. The court heard it at midnight.
Cancer patient is dead. Teesta is alive.
Even with an air-shipped cold chain built for a 24-hour farm-to-door window, the best supply chain I saw this litchi season wasn't ours.
It belonged to these families of Muzaffarpur working alongside our sourcing team. Across generations, they've built an assembly line so robust that no ops manager could improve.
- One man cuts the bunches when the sweetness (brix) peaks
- His wife runs ruthless QC, culling the bruised fruit
- Their mother ties the good bunches hand-grading by size and colour
- And their son ferries them to the boxes then comes straight back for more
All of it done to a running commentary of local gossip & someone's phone playing old folk songs loud enough to hear over the leaves.
Case in point... when a process is second nature, it stops looking like a process at all.
Last of the Shahi litchi, on @bigbasket_com. 💚
#Bigbasket #Litchis #SupplyChain
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This works wonders on your skin, hair, wrinkles, sleep cycle, leg cramps, immunity, and fatigue.
Try taking some.
When US-based doctor Ashok Jain visited his childhood school in India in 2020, the principal asked if he could help build a classroom for the students. He happily agreed. But when he shared the idea with his mother, she asked, "What will happen with one room?" Her question inspired Ashok to build an entirely new school for the village instead. Nearly six years later, the ₹7 crore school opened its doors to students in early 2026. Dr. Jain is also honoured with the Bharat Gaurav Award 2026 for his contributions to child healthcare and philanthropy.
Dadal village in Rajasthan is the hometown of doctor and healthcare entrepreneur Ashok Jain. He studied at the village school in the early 1970s, when there were no proper classrooms and children often learned under a tree. His family later shifted to Bengaluru, where Ashok completed the rest of his education. In the mid-1990s, he moved to the US, began his medical career in Chicago in 1998, and later settled in North Carolina. There, he founded KidzCare Pediatrics, which has grown into one of the state's largest pediatric healthcare networks. He also established the 200-bed hospital in Bengaluru.
On 26 January 2020, he was invited as the Republic Day chief guest to his village school. He returned to the school nearly after 40 years, and was saddened to find that many children were still studying in similar conditions. It was during this visit that the school management requested his help. The school project soon became a family dream. Jain's elder brother, Jeetmal Jain, fully supported the idea, and after his mother passed away in 2022, his wife encouraged him to begin construction, reminding him that "education is the greatest charity."
Construction began in 2023, and the whole village came together to make it possible. A local Rajput family even donated three bighas (about 2 acres) of land for the campus expansion. Built in memory of his parents, the new campus, named Shantidevi Chatarmalji Jain Government High School, is designed with architecture inspired by India's Parliament House and can accommodate nearly 1,200 students. It features spacious classrooms, computer labs, a skill development centre, sports courts, a playground, and an open gym.
Story courtesy, @indianeagle!
#IndianAmerican #givingback #EducationMatters #inspiring #RajasthanNews #philanthropy
Age of each of these countries:
USA: 250 years
Netherlands: 445 years
Sweden: 503 years
Spain: 547 years
Monaco: 729 years
Switzerland: 735 years
Thailand: 788 years
Mongolia: 820 years
Portugal: 883 years
Hungary: 1,026 years
Poland: 1,060 years
Denmark: 1,061 years
England: 1,099 years
Norway: 1,154 years
Russia: 1,164 years
France: 1,183 years
Morocco: 1,238 years
Bulgaria: 1,345 years
China: 2,246 years
Iran: 2,575 years
Japan: 2,685 years
Ethiopia: 3,000 years
Egypt: 5,125 years
A cordless misting fan that lowers the temperature around it by up to 12 degrees.
Fill it with water and ice, up to 24 hours of misting at low speed.
Can switch between floor and tabletop.
The Shark FlexBreeze Pro Mist Fan...
Akshayakalpa has 13 years of data showing that simply introducing bee boxes increases the average coconut yield per farm by 20%. It’s such a massive win-win that they’ve now integrated 7,500 bee boxes across all their farms.
Shashi from @akshayakalpa recently brought over two bee boxes for my home to get us started with beekeeping. In this clip (full video in comments), he walks through how incredibly simple it is to set up a bee home, even in smaller or semi-urban spaces.
The bigger takeaway here is about how we view sustainability. We often look for grand, complex technological solutions to environmental issues. But the reality is that our survival is deeply tied to basic, interconnected ecosystems.
Without pollinators, our food systems collapse; roughly a third of what we eat depends entirely on them. Taking care of them isn't just a good deed; it's an absolute necessity for our own survival. And I think education is the key, which maybe the bee boxes in urban spaces can do.
Can’t be prouder of everything that the Akshayakalpa team is doing for improving the quality of life of farmers, their economics, their cows, and everything else.