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Vodafone Foundation’s Red Rickshaw steering ahead a digital Revolution in rural India

They say, educate a woman, and you educate an entire family. This is a tale of 20 women leaders who not only took the onus of educating themselves and their family but also...

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Sanitation and Sewage Disposal In India

An estimated US$ 10 billion will be spent on the Mission over the next five years. Targets identified include cleaning the environment, construction of pubic and school lat...

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Movies

True Review : Badlapur Boys

Critics Rating: 1 Stars*

Cast: Nishan Nanaiah, Annu Kapoor, Saranya Mohan, Aman Verma

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Women in India Lift Themselves from Poverty through Self-Help

Women farmers in rural India are rising out of poverty and transforming their cultural position in society, in part because they have joined together in Self-Help Groups th...

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Crowdsourcing technology could ensure safety of drinking water in rural India

A research group has introduced a crowdsourcing technique to measure the quality of drinking water. This technique can prove to be a boon for a country like India where onl...

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TV

Girvi Takes Flight

Whichever way you spell this recent show on Colors TV -- Udaan or Udann, it is going where few TV series have gone. Placed in a remote region of India, there is an antithes...

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Sustainable Development

India brides leave husbands' homes for lack of toilets

Six newlywed women in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have returned to their parents because their husbands’ homes had no toilets. The women, all from ...

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Ethanol-run green bus set for trial runs in Nagpur

Nagpur received India’s first ethanol-run city passenger transport bus, which has been manufactured by Scania, the Sweden-based commercial vehicle and engine maker, f...

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Sustainable Development

IDBI Bank to construct toilets at 300 schools

Following the announcement of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, IDBI Bank today announced plans to build toilets in schools in the rural ...

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Sustainable Development

A Delhi resident consumes 12 times more electricity than one in Bihar

Data released last month by the National Sample Survey Organisation reveals patterns of electricity consumption across the country. Electrification in rural India has incre...

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