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Akshay Kumar Likely To Adopt Village In Maharashtra, Hit By Farmers' Suicides

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is likely to adopt a village in the Yavatmal district of the state. Collector Sachindra Pratap Singh yesterday signed the proposal made by the ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Fighting Vitamin A Deficiency With A New Kind Of Sweet Potato, Radio, And People Power

Sometimes a small change can make a big difference. Across sub-Saharan Africa, a new kind of sweet potato is helping families guard against vitamin A deficiency. Radio is h...

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Sustainable Development

District Collectors Software Solution Helps Farmers Control Urea Use

The district administration of Visakhapatnam is working on a software-based solution to regulate the excessive amount of urea used by farmers. Earlier this year, District C...

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Sustainable Development

Maharashtra Approves Rs 40.50 Crore Programme Of Distribution Of Soil Health Card

Summary: For the year 2016-17, the Centre and the state to spend over Rs 40.50 crore to distribute the soil health cards. "The Soil Health Card will empower the farmers wit...

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Bollywood

R Madhavan Goes On A Tree Planting Spree This Monsoon

R Madhavan, who wholeheartedly supports organic farming and even encourages fans to grow atleast one vegetable, to understand the hardship and plight of a farmer, is also d...

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Bollywood

Here's How Nawazuddin Siddiqui Is Saving Water In His Village

Whenever time permits, Nawazuddin Siddiqui takes off to his village, Budhana, in Uttar Pradesh to oversee the family farms. His late father, Nawabuddin, was a farmer and pl...

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Festivals

A Film Festival In Honor Of Farmers

Farmers engage in food production and yet many experience hunger. This painful paradox is one of the themes the six official entries to the first TOFARM (The Outstanding Fa...

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Environment

Bayer's Takeover Of Monsanto Would Create The World's Largest Agricultural Supplier

Anti-GMO activists are horrified at the prospect of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer purchasing American agrochemical company Monsanto, a proposed consolidation the activi...

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TV

True Review Television - Sumit Raghavan: India’s Consumate Actor

Sumit Raghavan is one of television’s most underrated actors. In early 2000, Dilip Joshi, Sumit Raghavan and Amit Mistry did a sitcom Shubh Mangal Savdhan for Sahara ...

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Human Rights

Land Rights For Women On Paper And In Practice.

Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments ha...

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