Latest News on Rural India
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Apr 14, 2018
Gap between skilled and unskilled, rural and urban, online and offline is reducing; Bharat no longer backbencher of growth story
Proactive and agile policy frameworks have already played a key role in India’s growth based on utilising its technological framework and are now leading to an empowered Bharat. -
Apr 03, 2018
How Khabar Lahariya's rural women reporters are bringing to light stories of national importance
Khabar Lahariya is India's only women-run digital media agency, reaching over one million people a month, in some of the most remote areas of North India -
Mar 22, 2018
World Water Day: While country grapples with dearth of water, survey reveals Indians are shower addict
Racold, one of the leading manufacturers of water heating solutions in India, recently conducted a nationwide survey that revealed interesting insights on behavioral patterns of that are attributed to their daily routine of showering -
Mar 22, 2018
Narayana Murthy says he couldn't understand logic behind demonetisation, but it appears rural India did
Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said he himself could not understand the logic behind the demonetisation -
Jan 23, 2018
Budget 2018: India can bet on agriculture, but support sectors like warehousing, cold storage need equal attention
Sectors like warehousing, cold storage, transportation etc that support agriculture should be an equal focus of India's agri budget announcements -
Jan 20, 2018
'Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon', TV serial watched by 40 crore people, changed gender beliefs in rural India
What marked this soap apart was its use of education-entertainment, or ‘edutainment’, to talk about women’s reproductive health and gender rights. -
Jan 19, 2018
Budget 2018: Govt may hike health spending by 11%; less than expected funds may slow disease control measures
Health Minister JP Nadda had demanded 33% hike in health budget in order to expand vaccination coverage, free drugs distribution and to ward off a growing threat of non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes which killed 60 lakh people in India in 2016 -
Jan 17, 2018
Rural India has a mere 17 percent internet penetration due to challenges in deployment of fixed broadband networks: Report
Wireless networks will drive Internet adoption for nearly 750 million users in India who still do not use Internet, said the TMT report. -
Jan 17, 2018
ASER survey paints bleak portrait of India's rural education system: Students struggle with reading, arithmetic, general knowledge
India is failing to train adolescents (aged 14 to 18) in rural schools, with most not being able to retain skills learnt in earlier classes, reveals the 2017 edition of the Annual Survey of Education Report (ASER) -
Jan 15, 2018
Women's rights: State should mandate education, employment and not rely on fathers, father-in-laws, husbands
It seems clear that in the eyes of the law, women are meant to be cared for at all stages of their lives by men: Fathers, husbands, and if not husbands, then father-in-laws.
