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Lights on the LAC: Micro hydel is the answer
HIGH up in the mountains in Arunachal Pradesh, close to the border with China, villagers ...
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At Soppu Mela, nutritious greens to go wild over
THE small venue where a two-day Soppu Mela or Green Leaves Fair was being held ...
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Textbook solution at book bank
HOLDING a piece of white paper in her left hand and clutching her 10-year-old daughter’s ...
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At construction sites, a continuing death roll
AT least 84 workers have lost their lives and 60 have been injured in accidents ...
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In Punjab more speak up on pollution and are heard
IT was a Sunday, August 14, a day before Independence Day, with all the enticing ...
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An outsider in politics
WHAT on earth was I doing here? Winter sun streamed in through the windows of ...
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Watch out for these 10 artists with disabilities
Art comes from within. The eyes of the soul make sense of the world. Every ...
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In search of the hybrid dryer to beat the monsoon
During Covid times, when farmers couldn’t take their bunches of bananas to markets, a campaign ...
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Peace, sheep at Tosa, stay a while in village homes
TRY an adventurous trek in Kashmir this summer after you’re done with Srinagar’s Dal Lake ...
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Off to Cannes after 2 years, can’t wait to be ...
THE Cannes Film Festival, the world’s most important celebration of cinema, is approaching a landmark. ...
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Going back to Vaidyagrama for that healing feeling
REVISITING the experience of a lifetime is fraught with uncertainties. Will it be as good? ...
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Grasscutting has got its champions
A lively grasscutting competition which caught the imagination of village women in Uttarakhand is being ...
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Honey from Etna
KAVITA Khorana and her husband started Etna in late 2015. They borrowed the name from ...
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NGOs work hard but get a raw deal in regulation
The voluntary, non-profit sector has contributed to democracy, equity and nation-building during and after Independence. It ...
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When a family meets: A play on relationships
A family drama simply entertains but The Gathered Leaves is not that kind of play. ...
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Dr MARY & Dr RAJKUMAR | KC Patty CF Health ...
RAJKUMAR Ramasamy and his wife, Mary, have spent the past 20 years of their lives ...
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Bridges, rail lines where small rivers once flowed
IN recent years the incidence of floods in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh has ...
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Punjab activists have a list for the Aam Aadmi Party
ACTIVISTS in Punjab have a long list of demands for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ...
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A growing canvas of ‘beyond limits’ art
IT is a painting of the Golden Temple in Amritsar and it is blessed. There ...
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Time for reset with elbow room for the states
Our national anthem extols the extent of India by naming a few provinces of those ...
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A wild plant Power list
Modern pharmacology draws on folk knowledge of medical plants. It is an old debt that remains ...
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It is like the Bigg Boss House...
HOW much money and time would you put into developing leaders who will serve India ...
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It is important to help the poor access their rights
Are advocacy, yatras, social audit and online services sufficient to enable the rural poor to ...
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Sanitation economy is on the rise with jobs, tech
Has the world ceded to sanitation being costly and difficult, a problem we must solve ...
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Fridge from the sun, cooling in the middle of nowhere
WHEN tribal women go into forests in Udaipur district to pick fruits like jamun and ...
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Girls learn, boys listen
THE ladies who run the civil society organization, Sukriti, recently went to address the general ...
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Indraani Singh
In 1995 when Indraani Singh became India’s first female pilot to be Commander of an ...
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Landfills don't work, learn to segregate garbage
The thought of an Indian city most often throws up images of teeming millions, traffic ...
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Engineer-ecologist: Tribute to Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
In the many years that the Leftist parties governed West Bengal, they paid little attention ...
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Farm magazine by farmers works well for them
In more ways than one, Adike Patrike is a unique publication. We tread a new path ...
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Every city can be smart
The selection of the first lot of 20 smart cities by the central government saw ...
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JNU celebrates street theatre with Sahmat
Protesters became performers on 12 April, National Street Theatre Day, at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) ...
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‘We went from beekeeping to serving hot meals’
BANKS tend not to go to villages and small towns until they are nudged into ...
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Development is the target, says Tata Steel’s Sourav Roy
It is five years since Jamshedpur began hosting Samvaad, an event at which tribal people ...
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Longer hours, lower wages, less security, fewer women
Job creation was on the agenda of the BJP government when it came to power ...
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Burhan Wani and the flashpoint in Kashmir
The protests and violence that have followed the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 20, have ...
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Elder care in these times
Research indicates that people over 60 are at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19. Those ...
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Engineer saves farmers with dung cart, instant manure
A ChanakaVandi, or Dung Van, roaming around Ernakulam, has so many customers it is finding ...
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Flowers and plants
Screw tree Helicteresisora L. or the East Indian Screw Tree is a handy shrub ...
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Father says son killed for just owning a horse
Since his childhood, 21-year-old Pradip Rathod, a Dalit from Timbi village in Bhavnagar district, always ...
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Awareness campaign: Blue Umbrella a buddy for boys
TALK about sexual abuse of children tends to focus on girls, but what do boys ...
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A good cause needs lights, camera, action...
Social entrepreneurs take up complex missions but to reach out their messaging has to be ...
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The Vir Chopra we came to know and will always ...
“I AM Vir Chopra,” said the very fit-looking and fair-skinned man of medium height, putting ...
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Index shows what makes a city safe for women
What are the key factors that make Indian cities safer for women? Safetipin, a social ...
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Ready for CSR 2.0? Five ideas for shifting gear
CORPORATIONS have an impact and touch lives in different ways when they use corporate social ...
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