Once a male-dominated profession, coconut tree climbing saw the entry of many women in the past decade. This is chiefly owing to government initiatives that
Around 25 years ago, villagers in the Khunti district in Jharkhand saw a massive amount of tree cutting carried out for development purposes. Locals say
Prayas is a social work demonstration project of the Criminology and Criminal Justice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, established in 1990. Prayas’s focus is on
Giridih: Four months is just not enough for any officer or politicians to bring about a major change in the outlook of a city. Especially,
DASANADODDI (MALAVALLI TALUK): Eighty-two-year-old shepherd Kamegowda may be illiterate, but he has been able to do what most so-called educated and environmentally conscious persons only
More than 63,500 schools in Maharashtra became digital up to June this year, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here Wednesday. He called for laying more
Drug abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence—these are three crimes that most people are too scared to report, and the ones that have the most far-reaching
The one thing that stood out during the devastating Kerala floods was the effective response of the civil administration, especially when compared with poorer and
As per data published by Tea Board India, the number of tea plantations in North India (which includes West Bengal, Assam and all the North-Eastern
Madhuri was in class 9 when she became friends with Bharadwaj. They traveled from their villages every day to Aligarh. She went to her school,
The residents of a Chennai apartment complex have evinced the effectiveness of systematic rainwater harvesting by collecting around 1,00,000 litres of water in just three
As several parts of the country continue to struggle with India’s humungous garbage problem, an IAS officer in Madhya Pradesh has managed to clear over
With 95 per cent of the World Heritage Site submerged and thousands of animal struggling to say afloat, meet the bunch of people who dive
Sanjay Kumar Alang, the District Collector of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, was doing the annual inspection of the city’s Central Jail. While he was checking and discussing
Ritu Sain, a 2003-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, can’t forget the first sight that greeted her when she entered Ambikapur city, in Surguja district
Jhansi: In an exemplary show of cooperation and amity, signaling the importance and precedence of infrastructure and development over faith and belief, locals from two
2,500 Estimated number of islands that form a vast and extraordinary network along the 891 km course of Brahmaputra through the state of Assam. Chars
Rajasthan has witnessed major social evils like child marriage, dowry, untouchability, lack of education for girls, and so on… for many decades now. Ironically, all
It is a movement to bring around good people to identify, understand, appreciate, replicate and scale good work that is being done in the society as a whole.