Bihar

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

Ritu Jaiswal shunned an easygoing life with her IAS officer spouse in Delhi to transform the flood-hit hamlet of Singhwahini in Bihar.

The new model is mainly about providing choices while keeping the creative, cognitive, social and emotional development of children as its focal interest.

Rajeev planted different crops in each segment to calculate the exact investment versus profit ratio of each harvest.

A group of farmers have converted a shunned wetland to practice fish farming, agro-forestry and horticulture, providing employment and livelihood opportunities to impoverished villagers. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.

Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, agreed to the proposal at a review meeting and identified organic farming as a core area that needs to be promoted.

Women self-help groups in the villages of Jehanabad have become the harbingers of social change by convincing people about the usefulness of building toilets at homes and ending open defecation. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.

In an attempt to reduce caste prejudice, the government extends financial incentives to inter-caste couples to help them settle down in the initial years of their marriage.

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel rescued six pregnant women stranded in flood-hit areas of Bihar, and took them to the nearest hospitals for delivery.

A collection of images by photojournalist Tanmoy Bhaduri gives you a glimpse into the lives of the adults and children who migrate to work in Bengal's brick fields.