rural india

Up-close with Shivdevi, a seasoned Khabar Lahariya reporter, and her fascinating, inspiring journey from a neo-literate Dalit woman to a journalist on the beat, atop her Scooty.

From solar-powered freezers for farmers to zero-electricity water purifiers, these inventions have the potential to dramatically impact the way people live in villages. #Innovation #RuralIndia #ImpactThatMatters

Recently, I went on a field trip to Tumakuru with the SELCO foundation, an NGO which is bringing solar energy to the various rural corners of India. Here's what I learnt.

On 31 July 1995, erstwhile Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram and then Chief Minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu made the first call to each other on a hand-held phone.

Here are some brilliant heroes who have won the awards in this category in the past three years:

“It took him two days to dig the pits, and afterwards he fell ill. Now, we have decided to complete the construction within a week."

Armed with smartphones and biometric scanners, the postman may soon don the role of part-time bankers for India's poorest!

It’s been 30 years since Dr Rani Bang and her husband, Dr Abhay Bang, dedicated their lives to the social and educational upliftment of the lowest of the low, in Maharashtra’s tribal district of Gadchiroli.

Husk Power Systems was established in 2007, wherein the company offered an off-grid power generation and distribution solution to serve rural customers in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

When the villagers urged the panchayat and related authorities to build a bus stand to avoid such instances, their petitions fell on deaf ears.