Hemesh Chadalvada is the latest teen wonder to join the brigade of celebrated social innovators. On the eve of Republic Day (January 26) this year, the 14-year-old was among 32 children conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) award by prime minister Narendra Modi in a virtual felicitation ceremony for his newest […]
Anand (Rajkot)-based mint fresh agriculture science graduate Radhika Ghetiya (22), has made media headlines in Gujarat for bagging a record 12 gold medals including the vice chancellor’s best student medal — the highest honour — for her performance in the four-year B.Sc (Agriculture Hons) final exam. The medals were awarded to her […]
Eight-year-old environmentalist, Prasiddhi Singh has been appointed brand ambassador – Tamil Nadu, for the government of India’s ‘Beti bachao beti padhao’ girl child literacy campaign. The Chengalpattu-based pre-teen has been in the limelight since 26 January this year when Prime Minister, Narendra Modi bestowed her with the ‘Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar’ award for […]
Although he is only 12 years of age, Arnay Agarwal, a class VII student of Bengaluru’s top-ranked Greenwood High International School, has authored two e-books — Most Amazing Dussehra Vacations Ever on Kindle in 2019 and Adventure of Juno and Ira for Juggernaut Books in 2018 — with his first paperback Happy […]
Gopalchetty Brahma (21) is the latest to join India’s exclusive club of outer space celebrities. An aerospace engineering undergrad at the Jalandhar-based Lovely Professional University, Punjab — ranked Punjab’s #2 private varsity in the latest EW India Higher Education Rankings 2020-21 — he was among the Top 100 of 6,500 participants from […]
The youngest chef to win four silver medals in the ‘pastry and culinary artistry’ individual categories at the world’s oldest and toughest Culinary Olympics 2020, staged in Stuttgart (Germany) last February, Chennai-based Yeshwanth Kumar Umasankar (17) has been awarded an entry into the India Book of Records.
HappyInc, a free-of-charge online peer counseling service designed for teenagers to overcome pandemic-induced stress, anxiety and depression, launched last August by Kian Godhwani and Nandini Bhattacharya — class XII students of the high-ranked Lawrence School, Lovedale (Ooty) — was adjudged runner-up in the University of Arizona Studentpreneur Challenge by a […]
Plucky Siya Tayal (15), a class X student of the millennium city’s highly-ranked Shri Ram School, Aravali, Gurugram is making waves in social media circuits worldwide through her online ‘Project I Am Enough’ campaign.
Launched on Instagram in July, the objective of this campaign is to contest ‘perfect body’ […]
It’s raining encomiums for Pune-based whizkid Chirag Falor (18). In October 2019, he aced SAT (formerly the Scholastic Aptitude Test) with a score of 1,560 out of a maximum 1,600 to win annual admission-cum-financial aid valued at 82 percent of tuition and boarding fees from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), […]
Jalandhar-based agri-genetics postgrad Sumant Bindal (22) has made media headlines in Punjab, by bagging a whopping Rs.1.3 crore Ph D scholarship awarded by the Australian National University (ANC), Canberra — ranked Australia’s #2 public research university and #50 worldwide in the THE World University Rankings 2020. For the past […]
Mumbai-based social worker and medical student Meera Mehta (21) was among 150 global citizens conferred the prestigious Diana Award 2020 of the British government on July 1, at a specially organised virtual felicitation ceremony. The Diana Award was initiated in 1999 in memory of the late Princess of Wales (1961-1997), to recognise […]
A class VIII student of St. Michael’s School, Siliguri — ranked among West Bengal’s Top 3 co-ed boarding schools in the latest EW India School Rankings 2019-20 — Shrivalli Ghosh (13) is national champion of the Classmate Spelling Bee Season 12. The first, second and third runners up were students of DPS, Ghaziabad, Army […]
Bangalore-based teenager Nikhil Ramachandran (17) offers a ray of hope in the grim era when the coronavirus outbreak has taken more than 600,000 lives worldwide. Nikhil claims he has developed an anti-viral inorganic polymer — a complex chemical — that can kill the virus.
Conceptualised and developed at an estimated cost of Rs.4 lakh using nano-technology, […]
Nikhil Lemos (12), a class VII student of the Navrachna Sama School, Vadodara is one of eight winners from an estimated 2 lakh school children around the world who submitted entries for the May 2020 edition of the Coronavirus App Challenge of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Within three years of taking to the shooting range, Kulesara village (Uttar Pradesh)-based teenage sharpshooter Shivam Thakur (17) bagged gold and silver medals in individual and group categories of the men’s 10m air pistol shooting event at the Indo-Malaysia International Championship 2020 organised by the Malaysia School Games and Activity Development Foundation in Kuala Lumpur […]
Early teen Nikhil Jha (14) is the latest to join the country’s exclusive club of asteroid hunters. This class X student of Mount Abu Public School, Delhi was among 17 of 1,000 participants countrywide to spot an asteroid in the online All India Asteroid Search Campaign (AIASC) held in July-August 2019, the […]
Bangalore-based Team Helios Racing — comprising 50 engineering undergrads of the city’s RV College of Engineering (RVCE) — bested 40 teams to be crowned national champions at the Enduro Student India (ESI) competition staged in Talegaon, Pune from February 7-10. The team bagged a humongous trophy and prize money of Rs.2.65 lakh.
Udaipur-based recycled waste proponent Nidhi Kalal (17) could well revolutionise road construction countrywide with her innovative solution. Nidhi is a class XII student of Udaipur’s CBSE and Cambridge International (UK)-affiliated Heritage Girls School (HGS) — ranked among the country’s Top 10 girls boarding schools in the latest EW India School Rankings 2019-20.
Challenging the coronavirus outbreak which has taken over 210,000 lives worldwide, a team of engineering undergrad students — Prabin Kumar Das, Vaishnavi Gupta and Vinay Kumar of the Jalandhar-based Lovely Professional University (LPU, estb.2005) — has developed a smart dustbin christened Ally, for use in hospitals and medical centres.
Ridhima Pandey (13), a class IX student of the CBSE-affiliated BMDAV Centenary Public School, Haridwar, Uttarakhand is the Indian counterpart of Swedish teenage green warrior and environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who was recently named Time magazine’s Person of the Year 2019. She persuaded the Supreme Court to review her 2017 petition complaining of government inaction […]
Aranyo Ray and Vaishnavi Pandey — higher secondary students of Kalyani Public School, Barasat (West Bengal) and Tagore International School, Delhi respectively — were adjudged national winners of the Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards (PSCA) 2020 at a glittering ceremony held in Delhi on February 24. Both were presented with a gold medallion, certificates of excellence, a cash prize of Rs.50,000 and round trip […]
Jaisal Singh Bhati (15) aka Kanha’s Mowgli — the boy-protagonist of the popular Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling — is no ordinary teen. Raised in Madhya Pradesh’s famous Kanha Tiger Reserve (formerly Kanha National Park), Jaisal has an important message for the world: Live and let live!
2019 ended on a more than cheerful note for Kolkata-based rising table tennis star Krittwika Sinha Roy (26), currently ranked India #4. In December, at the 13th South Asian Games staged in Kathmandu (Nepal), she won the singles final besting Sri Lanka’s Erandi Waruswithana in straight games. Earlier in July (2019), Krittwika teamed up with […]
Burhaan Rasheed Zargar and Raghav Khajuria — class X students of the CBSE-affiliated Jodhamal Public School, Jammu — were recently crowned champions of News Wiz Quiz 2019.
In the national finals staged last December in Delhi, the winning duo exhibiting calm demeanour and high level of preparedness, outsmarted teams from Bishop School, Pune and The […]
At 6 ft. 5 inches, Kapurthala (Punjab)-based Harsimran Kaur (16) towers over most of her peers, not only in terms of height but also in achievement. Last November, this lanky teen achieved the distinction of becoming the first Asian woman selected for training at the prestigious National Basketball Association Global Academy, Canberra (Australia), an […]
Last November, Ludhiana (Punjab)-based early teens education evangelist Namya Joshi (13) met her “Skype students” — directors and principals of Finnish schools — for the first time at the Poke Vocational College, Aanekoski (Finland), where she was invited to deliver a lecture on gamification of elementary and high school education. However, Namya took this invitation […]
Bangalore-based teenage STEM enthusiast Pranjal Srivastava (15) was a member of the six-strong national team representing India at the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) 2019 staged in the University of Bath, UK, in July. The team brought home a gold medal after a gap of six years and Pranjal became the youngest Indian to win gold […]
Mississauga (Canada)-based UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) evangelist Ayush Chopra (17) has every reason to feel elated. In July this year, this teen was conferred the prestigious Diana Award 2019, established by the UK government in 1999 in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, to acknowledge outstanding young leaders for selflessly creating and sustaining positive […]
Coimbatore-based social entrepreneur Padmanabhan Gopalan (26), founder of an NGO christened No Food Waste (NFW, estb.2014), is winner of the National Youth Award 2019 of the Union ministry of youth affairs and sports. NFW collects leftover food from weddings and other festivals and distributes it to the poor and needy in 16 cities and towns […]
Vadodara-based early teens Aabir Sarkar and Rishiraj Behki — members of Team ARM (advanced robotics for manufacturing) 9 — are the newly crowned champions of the World Adolescent Robotics Contest (WARC) 2019 staged on August 11-17 in Chongqing, China. Team ARM9 was among 60 teams invited from 30 countries to compete in WARC 2019 by […]
At the annual WorldSkills 2019 competition staged in Kazan (Russia) from August 22-27, Bhubaneswar (Odisha)-based electronics engineer Aswatha Narayana Sanagavarapu (25) bested participants from ten countries including South Korea, China, Germany, Russia, Iran and Brazil to be adjudged India’s first gold medallist in the water technologies management skills category (individual). The 48-member Indian contingent competed […]
The 22-year-old student received the Dr Jai Krishna Gold medal for contribution in the field of youth leadership and academic excellence from President Ram Nath Kovind.
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR) student Anant Vashistha received the Dr Jai Krishna Gold medal for contribution in the field of youth leadership and academic excellence from President […]
Ananya N. Swamy (14), a Chikkaballapur (Karnataka)-based class IX student of the CISCE (Delhi)-affiliated BGS World School, is making waves in the national and international memory sport circuits. At a Memory Championship for Professionals staged in Tunisia on March 24 this year, she was adjudged the winner of all ten events of the competition. Moreover, […]
A class VII student of Mumbai’s CBSE-affiliated Navy Children School, Kaamya Karthikeyan is getting used to experiencing that top of the world feeling from early age. On August 24, Kaamya scaled the summit of Ladakh’s Mt. MentokKangri II (6,250 metres above mean sea level) — her highest peak thus far — after a gruelling eight-hour […]
Akshat Singh (14), a class X student of Birla Vidya Niketan, Delhi, was recently crowned champion of the Korea-India Friendship Quiz Competition 2019 staged in the national capital on April 24. This early teen outsmarted quizzers from Apeejay School, Amity International School and Delhi Public School among other prominent schools in the National Capital […]
Gurgaon (Haryana)-based Nikita Sahu (17) is creating waves in roller skating — one of India’s fast popularising sports.
In December last year, Nikita was crowned national champion at the 56th National Roller Skating Championship held in Visakhapatnam. This victory came in the wake of her record-setting performances at the 18th Asian Roller Skating Championship staged in […]
Kolkata-based math whiz Supravat Sarkar (20) is on a roll. For the third consecutive year, this third year student of the city’s vintage Indian Statistical Institute (ISI, estb.1931) was crowned champion of the national Madhava Maths Competition 2019 held on January 6 in 24 centres countrywide. The results of the competition were declared on March […]
A seven-member team of the Jalandhar (Punjab)-based Lovely Professional University (LPU, estb.2005) — ranked #3 in Punjab in the latest EW India Private University Rankings 2019-20 — was adjudged winner of the prestigious STEM Engagement Award 2019 of the Human Exploration Rover Challenge sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Huntsville, Alabama (USA) […]
For swiftly twisting and turning 26 Rubik’s Cubes while blindfolded to consecutively display all alphabets of the English language in 6 minutes and 14 seconds, Mumbai-based Afaan Kutty (13) has entered the Limca Book of Records, India Book of Records and the Asia Book of Records.
Named after Erno Rubik, a professor who invented it in […]
Crowned U-13, U-15 and U-17 badminton (singles and doubles) champion of Karnataka state within ten years, Bangalore-based Trisha Hegde (17) has emerged Indian badminton’s hottest new prospect, set to follow in the footsteps of world women champions P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal.
In January (2019), this promising shuttler teamed up with Aditi Bhatt (Delhi) to bag […]
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