The CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) which made headlines for cultivating a 108-petal lotus called ‘Namoh-108,’ has now successfully grown a lotus with around 1,000 petals at ...

For Hindus, the beautiful and arresting lotus flower represents life, fertility and (as with Buddhists) purity – standing aloof above the mud and murk from which it grows. Though its roots are ...