Within two months of being adjudged India champion of the Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) contest in January, Pune-based architect Tanay Bothara (23) has been crowned Young Designer 2019 (architecture) of Asia in the transnational competition organised by Osaka (Japan)-based Nippon Paint Holdings Co.
Four times national champion, Rohtak (Haryana)-based Sonia Chahal (21) returned home to a hero’s welcome last November after winning a silver medal in her debut performance at the Women’s World Boxing Championship organised by the Amateur International Boxing Association in New Delhi.
The younger of two children of Jai Bhagwan, a farmer, and homemaker mother […]
Mumbai’s Tilak Mehta (13) is the latest to enter India’s elite club of innovative entrepreneurs and undoubtedly the youngest recipient of the Forbes (India) Leadership Award 2018. Last July Tilak successfully launched Papers N Parcels (PNP), an app-based courier service firm utilising the maximum city’s globally famous 5,000-strong dabbawallah network which unfailingly delivers over 200,000 […]
Team Aqua, comprising Sachin Dwivedi and Shivam Mishra — final year mechanical engineering students of the Army Institute of Technology (AIT, estb.1994) — bagged the Platinum prize of Rs.10 lakh for its revolutionary ‘vertical axis water turbine’ at KPIT Sparkle 2019, a design and innovation talent contest open to engineering and science students countrywide. […]
A team comprising Bhavya Raninga (class XII) and Nihar Shah (class X) — students of the CBSE-affiliated St. Kabir’s School, Vadodara — was recently (November) crowned national champions of the TCS IT Wiz (TCSITW) 2018. In the national finale staged in Mumbai, the duo outsmarted teams from St. Paul’s English School, Bangalore; St. Jude’s, […]
A class XI student of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow — ranked Uttar Pradesh’s #1 co-ed day school in the EW India School Rankings 2018-19 — Apurva Chauhan (15) is the youngest Indian to join the elite group of world-renowned opera singers such as Cecilia Bartolli (Italy), Renee Fleming (USA), Montserrat Caballe (Spain) […]
Mumbai-based teenager Pingla More had an extraordinarily joyous Children’s Day (November 14) last year when she discovered that the world’s most popular search engine Google displayed her creative doodle on space exploration on its home page, to mark Children’s Day celebrations countrywide.
One of twin daughters of Rupali, an ayurveda doctor, and Rahul More, a corporate […]
A postgraduate student of international business at the city’s PSG College of Arts and Science, sharpshooter Gaayathri Nithyanandam, senior national champion in the 50 m Rifle 3 position (3P) in 2016 with a rich haul of over 100 medals thus far, has been shortlisted to represent India at the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation […]
A final year liberal arts student majoring in molecular biology at the blue-chip Princeton University, New Jersey (USA), Samvida Venkatesh (21) is the latest to join the celebrated league of Rhodes scholars from India that includes economist and civil servant Montek Singh Ahluwalia, environmentalist and economist Sanjeev Sanyal, actor-playwright Girish Karnad, novelist Neel Mukherjee and […]
Vadodara-based Rishiraj Behki (12) is a member of Team Zepto Rira-Heartz which cleared a rigorous elimination round in September to be crowned national champion. As such, the youngster will represent India at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO), scheduled to be staged (at the time of writing) from November 16-18 in Chiang Mai (Thailand). Teams […]
Varanasi-based Vishal Tripathi, a research scholar at the Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Development of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), is among 25 scholars worldwide awarded the prestigious Green Talent Award 2018 of the ministry of education of the Federal Republic of Germany. The annual Green Talent competition is organised to encourage youth around the world […]
In June R. Praggnanandhaa (RP), a class VIII student of the Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, took the chess world by storm when he outsmarted Italian Grandmaster (GM) Luca Moroni Jr.in round eight of the Gredine Open staged in Ortisei (Italy), to be crowned the world’s second youngest (12 years ten months) and India’s […]
There’s no telling the tonnes of evidence budding archaeologist Arsh Ali (18) may unearth, given his knowledge of 15 ancient written scripts including Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Currently, Arsh is busy deciphering the nuances of the Indian subcontinent’s ancient Harappan script, dating back to the Indus Valley Civilisation.
“It’s very unusual and highly commendable for such a young […]
Prathyush P. Poduval (18), a Mangalore (Karnataka)-based STEM enthusiast, is member of a five-strong national team which cleared three rigorous elimination rounds this April to be selected to represent India at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2018, scheduled to be staged in Beijing (China) in November. Forty teams from 45 countries worldwide […]
Kullu (Himachal Pradesh)-based Aanchal Thakur (21) has made history by winning India its first international medal in skiing, a competitive winter sport.
On January 9, this young skier who trained for 15 years on the snowy slopes of Manalis Solang Valley, zipped down a skiing track with a vertical drop of 180 m with 62 turns […]
Noida-based Mrigank Pawagi (14) is the latest teen to join the platoon of precocious gaming app developers of the country. One of five national champions of Google India’s version 3.0 online Web Rangers Contest 2017, the results of which were declared on Internet Safety Day (February 6), Mrigank was feted and awarded a Samsung tablet […]
Prithvi Shaw (18), captain of India’s Under-19 cricket team which returned from New Zealand in early February with the under-19 World Cup of ICC (International Cricket Council), is the new sports hero of Mumbai. Leading from the front, Prithvi scored an impressive 261 runs in six innings averaging 43.5.
Unsurprisingly, this rising star — right-handed opening […]
Young Bangalore-based architect Nithin Jois M.S. (21) has already established a national reputation. On January 25, Nithin was crowned gold champion (interior design) in version 10.0 of the Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) India 2017 Contest held in Chennai, which attracted participation of 350 students from 100 undergrad colleges countrywide.
Undeterred by strong winds and intermittent rains on December 1 last year, Bangalore-based Anmol Arora (15) used a powerful swing to notch up an impressive score of 74 (2 over) to be crowned overall champion of the 5th Inter-School Golf Tournament organised by the city’s Top 10 ranked Canadian International School, at the Prestige […]
A two-member team of Samarth Jain and Harshit Kumar Prabhakar — both class XI (science) students of the BGS National Public School, Bangalore — was awarded second rank in Season 14 of the Technothlon International School Championship 2017, staged in Guwahati between September 1-3.
This annual competition — open to two-member teams of secondary (junior squad) […]
Delhi-based human rights campaigner Ayush Chopra (15) was the youngest Indian representative-invitee at the 14th International Human Rights (IHR) Summit staged from August 24-26 at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The summit is organised annually by the Los Angeles-based not-for-profit Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI, estb.2001).
Coimbatore-based Aahil Mubarak (6) is at his best after strapping on his roller skates and speeding on the rink with the wind in his face. At the Asian Roller Sports Open Championship staged in Pattaya, Thailand between May 11-17, young Aahil bested competitors from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand to bag two golds in the […]
Second year dual degree undergrad student of Harvard University and the Berklee School of Music, Boston, Avanti Nagral (19) is creating waves in the international pop music circuit. An alumna of Mumbai’s top-ranked Cathedral and John Connon School, this singer and songwriter released her debut soul single I Like — dedicated to the independent […]
Bangalore-based danseuse Vinaya Seshan (15) is making waves in the global dance circuit. The petite teen wowed judges at the recently concluded Dance World Cup 2017 staged in Offenburg, Germany, besting 300 finalists from 20 countries to win one gold and two bronze medals in the duet, hip-hop group and solo categories.
Anmol Dhawan and Prabhav Vasistha — final year medical students of the country’s prestigious Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC, estb.1948), Pune — were recently crowned international champions of the 13th Tata Crucible Campus Quiz (TCCQ) 2017. In the final round of this annual quiz open to two-member undergrad college teams, staged in Mumbai on May […]
With a score of 1,590 (out of a maximum possible 1,600) in SAT (formerly known as Scholastic Assessment Test), Lucknow-based Shubh Agrawal is India’s new SAT topper (for the test administered on January 21). The 16-year-old maxed the math section and scored 790 out of 800 in the SAT English paper. Students’ scores in SAT […]
Health is Wealth, a 250-word essay with a ringing endorsement of prime minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Movement), has won Sangli (Maharashtra)-based teenager Ashish Jadhav #1 rank in version 9.0 of the Tata Build India (TBI) Essay Competition 2014-15 (Marathi language category). Ashish was among 11 national language (including English) winners to […]
Dubai-based green crusader Kehkashan Basu (16) is the winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize, 2016, an award presented annually by the Amsterdam-based KidsRights Foundation (estb. 2003). Previous winners include Pakistani women’s rights activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousefzai (2013), among others. Kehkashan was awarded a trophy, higher education study grant and project funding of […]
Sneha Sankar, a final year graphic design undergrad of India’s top-ranked National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, is the 2016 South Asia winner of the Helen Lansdowne Resor Scholarship (HLRS) version 2.0. The scholarship, which commemorates the first woman copywriter of the transnational advertising company J. Walter Thompson (JWT), includes a purse of $10,000 […]
Wheelchair on Power, a PowerPoint presentation showcasing an innovative and affordable robotic wheelchair for the physically challenged, has bagged Kolkata-based Shramona Chakraborty (22) — a final year computer engineering student at the M.C. Kejriwal Vidyapeeth Institute of Engineering, Howrah — the top prize of the IET South Asia Present Around The World (PATW) 2016 competition. […]
Standing 3 ft 7 inches in his socks, Delhi-based Anubhav Sawhney (21) recently earned a black belt in taekwondo — a highly disciplined martial art form known to have originated in Korea — in a national test staged in Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh. Determined to disprove ill-informed popular prejudices against height challenged (aka stunted) individuals, […]
A 2,500-word essay titled ‘Paving Better Paths For Little Feet’, proposing innovative ways to effectively rehabilitate Chennai’s estimated 50,000 street children, has won Vishnupriya Viswanathan, a fourth year architecture student of Manipal University, first prize in an online Berkeley Prize Essay Competition (version 18), besting 150 participants from 20 countries worldwide. The 21-year-old was […]
Mangalore-based Ajay Gopi (19) has been selected for the Youth Ventures programme of the US-based Ashoka Innovators for the Public (formerly Ashoka Foundation). Ajay has designed a social entrepreneurship venture incorporating aquaponics technology, which will employ rural youth and benefit farming communities. As a member of Ashoka’s Youth Venture programme initiated last September, Ajay will […]
Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra (16) and Sailesh Ranjan (15) — class X students of Mother’s Public School (MPS), Bhubaneswar — were crowned champions at the National CBSE Science Exhibition 2015-16 staged in Delhi on February 8-10.
This annual science competition — open to class VI-XI students — conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, drew 400 […]
Bangalore-based Ashish S, Priyesh Tiwari, P. Kiran Kumar Reddy and Udith Raju — all class IX students of the Air Force School (AFS), Hebbal, bonded together under the name and style of Team Cloneators — were crowned champions of Teenovators 2015-16, an annual national inter-school science and technology competition, the finals of which were staged […]
Gurgaon-based Arhan Bagati (16) is the latest teen to join the brigade of precocious app ideators mushrooming countrywide. Supported by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), Arhan has conceptualised and helped develop ‘inRio’, a free app which can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices, to ensure better manoeuvrability and quality of life for para-athletes […]
Karate black belt Sai Kunthavi Senthil Kumar (11), a class VI student of the SSVM World School, Coimbatore, was recently crowned Under-12 champion in the Kata event — a sequence of karate stances practiced solo or in pairs against imaginary opponents — at the 8th Commonwealth Karate Championship staged in New Delhi on September […]
Undeterred by a history of autism since age two, Ranveer Singh Saini (14) created history to become the first Indian junior champion in the GF Golf-level 2 alternate shot team play event at the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2015, staged in Los Angeles between July 25-August 2. The duo of Ranveer and Monica Jajoo […]
Undoubtedly to the surprise of his hosts, Lucknow-based kung fu martial arts practitioner Akash Yadav (17) bagged two gold medals in the Shaolinquan and soft weapon categories at the fourth World Kung Fu Championship 2015 held in Beijing (July 17-22). The championship attracted 10,000 contestants from 60 countries around the world.
A third-year computer engineering student of Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Faridabad, Roopam Sharma (20) has designed a real-time tracking system for patients suffering from dementia. On May 27, Emancipator was adjudged a ‘Top 10 Global Innovation’ at the online Microsoft Youth Spark Challenge for Change 2015. The award includes prize money of $2,500 […]
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