India-Myanmar Open Border Policy: A Travesty for Sustainable, Traditional Agriculture
By BIDHAYAK DAS Up in the hills some 1,524 meters above sea level the practice of slash and burn agriculture, popularly known as “jhum cultivation,” has […]
Month: May 2018
Startup Gramin Health Care is providing affordable services to rural India
By Vinay Dwivedi The thought of making quality healthcare accessible to rural India motivated Ajoy Khandheria, a technology evangelist with more than 25 years of […]
India largest remittance-receiving country in the world: Report
India was the largest remittance-receiving country in the world, with migrant workers from the country sending home $69 billion in 2017, according to a report […]
Towards Industry 4.0
Accelerators like regulatory frameworks and physical infrastructure will create stronger partnerships between the government and the industry. It will place India at the top position […]
Make India, then Make in India
By Ratnesh Jha Another challenge is that of empowering teachers. In the past few years, there has been development on this front. World Economic Forum’s […]
Apathy to public issues has killed Indian democracy
By Shashi Shekhar Elections in India are now are fought on the basis of corporate propaganda, not real issues Now that the results of the acrimonious […]
Govt aims to harness big data, AI in agriculture sector
By Zia Haq This month, the NITI Aayog signed an agreement with software firm IBM to develop a model for crop-yield predictions using AI so that […]
Cracking the rural consumption puzzle
By AARATI KRISHNAN The surge in non-farm employment has led to a rural consumption splurge, making listed companies bullish Is rural India languishing in abject misery, […]
Gender discrimination kills 239,000 girls in India each year, study finds
By Steve George An estimated 239,000 girls under the age of five die in India each year due to neglectlinked to gender discrimination, a new study has found. […]
Empowering waste workers for a cleaner, safer city
In the city of Pune in western India, a group of marginalized women are at the forefront of a campaign to clean their city. Pune […]