Rare Plant

The 30 charged included shift bosses and IT workers at the plant, as well as security guards and outsiders not directly affiliated with the company.

A "library" of around 100 indigenous and rare trees has been set up at a college in Maharashtra's Latur city with an aim to encourage students to know more about these plants and preserve them, officials said.

The sudden deaths of African elephants in Botswana and Zimbabwe in 2020 provoked considerable public interest and speculation.

A rare plan to grow 1,000 sandalwood trees in Lutyens' Delhi has begun with the arrival from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh of the first batch of their saplings, which will receive unusual pampering -- round the clock security guards.

The Atacama Desert, an arid region in northern Chile, is the oldest and driest desert in the world. But a lesser-known fact about the desert is that it explodes with new plant life every few years.

The CHIPS Act was passed by the US Senate on Wednesday, with a rare bipartisan vote. The act is aimed at boosting companies in the US to compete with China, while attempting to reduce the ongoing component shortage affecting the industry. The CHIPS Act will provide for about $52 billion (roughly Rs. 4,14,754 crore) in government subsidies for US se...

Researchers at Botanical Survey of India have rediscovered a rare plant from a remote district of Anjaw in Arunachal Pradesh which is often called the "Lipstick Plant" (Aeschynanthus monetaria Dunn).

For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck. But when tainted food sickened over 250 of the workers their anger boiled over, culminating in a rare protest that shut down a plant where 17,000 had been working.

Kerala is known as "God's own country" for more reasons than one. Beaches, hills, and forest teeming with rare plants and wildlife - the southern state is blessed with nature's bounty.

In New Zealand, a tiny plant with just four leaves has sold for NZ$ 8,150 - or over Rs 4 lakh. The rare variegated rhaphidophora tetrasperma is also known as Philodendron Minima.

German automaker Daimler officially opened a Mercedes-Benz factory near Moscow on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin, marking a rare foreign investment into Russia's car industry. The plant in the town of Esipovo 40 kilometers north west of Moscow is the first in years to be opened by a foreign carmaker in Russia where inv...

Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state is cultivating the rare Wollemi Pine or the "Dinosaur Tree" as an "insurance policy" for the sustenance of the fragile species, researchers said on Monday.

This is the first time that the rare and unstable mineral has been found to be associated with plants. Read full report here.

For a very long time one has only heard that India is country that is not blessed with indigenous uranium and that unless we import uranium there will be no energy independence. However, India's atomic chief Dr Sekhar Basu asserts that thanks to new explorations India is can now call itself a uranium-endowed country. NDTV visited the uranium proces...

In a bizarre incident in China, a woman briefly sent the owners of a plant nursery into panic mode after she walked away with an orchid reportedly worth 20 million yuan, or approximately $3 million dollars. The woman had apparently paid for another plant, which was presumably much cheaper, when she spotted the exotic orchid on her way out. Assuming...

The 30 charged included shift bosses and IT workers at the plant, as well as security guards and outsiders not directly affiliated with the company.

A "library" of around 100 indigenous and rare trees has been set up at a college in Maharashtra's Latur city with an aim to encourage students to know more about these plants and preserve them, officials said.

The sudden deaths of African elephants in Botswana and Zimbabwe in 2020 provoked considerable public interest and speculation.

A rare plan to grow 1,000 sandalwood trees in Lutyens' Delhi has begun with the arrival from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh of the first batch of their saplings, which will receive unusual pampering -- round the clock security guards.

The Atacama Desert, an arid region in northern Chile, is the oldest and driest desert in the world. But a lesser-known fact about the desert is that it explodes with new plant life every few years.

The CHIPS Act was passed by the US Senate on Wednesday, with a rare bipartisan vote. The act is aimed at boosting companies in the US to compete with China, while attempting to reduce the ongoing component shortage affecting the industry. The CHIPS Act will provide for about $52 billion (roughly Rs. 4,14,754 crore) in government subsidies for US se...

Researchers at Botanical Survey of India have rediscovered a rare plant from a remote district of Anjaw in Arunachal Pradesh which is often called the "Lipstick Plant" (Aeschynanthus monetaria Dunn).

For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck. But when tainted food sickened over 250 of the workers their anger boiled over, culminating in a rare protest that shut down a plant where 17,000 had been working.

Kerala is known as "God's own country" for more reasons than one. Beaches, hills, and forest teeming with rare plants and wildlife - the southern state is blessed with nature's bounty.

In New Zealand, a tiny plant with just four leaves has sold for NZ$ 8,150 - or over Rs 4 lakh. The rare variegated rhaphidophora tetrasperma is also known as Philodendron Minima.

German automaker Daimler officially opened a Mercedes-Benz factory near Moscow on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin, marking a rare foreign investment into Russia's car industry. The plant in the town of Esipovo 40 kilometers north west of Moscow is the first in years to be opened by a foreign carmaker in Russia where inv...

Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state is cultivating the rare Wollemi Pine or the "Dinosaur Tree" as an "insurance policy" for the sustenance of the fragile species, researchers said on Monday.

This is the first time that the rare and unstable mineral has been found to be associated with plants. Read full report here.

For a very long time one has only heard that India is country that is not blessed with indigenous uranium and that unless we import uranium there will be no energy independence. However, India's atomic chief Dr Sekhar Basu asserts that thanks to new explorations India is can now call itself a uranium-endowed country. NDTV visited the uranium proces...

In a bizarre incident in China, a woman briefly sent the owners of a plant nursery into panic mode after she walked away with an orchid reportedly worth 20 million yuan, or approximately $3 million dollars. The woman had apparently paid for another plant, which was presumably much cheaper, when she spotted the exotic orchid on her way out. Assuming...