What Stops India From Making Technological Progress In Agriculture
In last few years, people from newly set-up industries have come up with the idea of using aerial/autonomous vehicles for precision agriculture in India. Precision […]
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India 131st Of 188 Countries On The Human Development Index, Even Worse For Gender Inequality
India ranks 131st out of 188 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s new Human Development rankings for 2015. This puts India in the “medium […]
Govt working to make energy affordable for people: Environment min official
There is a relationship between forests and energy, and the challenge is to make the latter available to the people at affordable cost, a top […]
How plastics are lowering input costs, boosting yields and profits
Bharat Patel, a science graduate and a chilli farmer from Kheda district, has reason to cheer. His earnings from the chili crop on three acres […]
India to miss ODF 2019 target due to fund shortage: Panel
The country will miss its target of becoming open defecation free by 2019 due to “insufficient allocation of funds” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much […]
Deprivation parameters to identify beneficiaries of schemes
The government has decided to use “deprivation parameters” parameters to identify the beneficiaries in several of its welfare schemes for the people in the rural […]
Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as human beings
The Ganges river, considered sacred by more than 1 billion Indians, has become the first non-human entity in India to be granted the same legal […]
63 million in India do not have access to clean water
India has the maximum number of people — 63 million — living in rural areas without access to clean water, according to a new global […]
New National Health Policy people-oriented: Nadda
The new National Health Policy is people-oriented with stress on preventive steps to fight non-communicable diseases responsible for over 50 per cent of deaths, Union […]
SRLM signs MoUs with 3 agencies for employing youth
The MoUs were signed for Himayat Scheme under the aegis of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. […]