Bihar

How a strong action based-campaign, including litigations in court and collaboration with law officials, ensured no sale of exotic birds and other wildlife at the Sonepur Mela for the first time, ever.

From an impoverished village woman to mushroom farmer and successful entrepreneur, Anita Devi has inspired hundreds of women in Nalanda to adopt the profitable venture of mushroom cultivation. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.

The boys were frustrated with the amount of garbage accumulated on streets and decided to speak up

The Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital's Football to Eyeball program seeks to use the sport as an avenue to facilitate better career prospects for young underprivileged girls.

Reports suggest that the death toll in India from the derailment of trains in 2016-17 is the highest it has been in 10 years

After its success in Bihar, the project has shifted to the hilly areas of Meghalaya and Jammu & Kashmir.

Women in rural Nalanda are popularizing the use of a traditional grinding stone to pound flour out of roasted gram, providing a healthier alternative to machine-ground sattu and earning a livelihood for themselves. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.

These NGOs hope to equip the youth with the necessary skills to create innovative businesses that generate employment.

Sandeep Desai, a former marine engineer and academician, is a resident of Goregaon and the famous Mumbai man who begged on local trains to start rural English medium schools across villages in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar.

Choti Kumari Singh on the Women's Creativity in Rural Life Award from the Switzerland-based Women's World Summit Foundation