Crusaders against maternal health rights abuse

In a State where health rights is somewhat an alien subject, some 40-odd women, mostly from the tea garden community, are acting as ambassadors of maternal health rights of...

Rural girls quitting education as schools lack toilets

School education minister Vinod Tawde has expressed concern over alarming increase in school dropout rate, especially for girls, and blamed it on absence of girl’s to...

Can Solar Thermal Desalination Make Sustainable Agriculture Possible?

The jury is still out on solar thermal, which is certainly efficient but has its critics because of its costs, both financial and ecological. The International Energy Assoc...

Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants

In London, Paris and Washington, where leaders have made little progress in curtailing climate change, global warming may seem a merely theoretical problem ? too far in the...

Many Indian girls are going to incredible lengths to get the education they deserve

India is hardly the place that comes to mind when you think of places that have made strides in girls’ education. Headlines are filled with stories of how badly the c...

Priyanka Chopra picks garbage for Clean India campaign

Actress Priyanka Chopra took it upon herself to clean up a garbage-strewn neighbourhood in Mumbai as part of her efforts towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean ...

Ideas meet investment and encouragement at Film Bazaar Labs on Day 3

~ Producers Lab, Co-production market stitches together film industries from the world over ~

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