As Success flows
Announced by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address to the nation on August 15, 2019, Jal Jeevan Mission is a mission-mode programme under implementation to ....
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Progress
From government-supported schemes to programmes for social uplift, this section traces the progress made by India and Indians in various fields.
On a wild track
The fields of ecology and biodiversity have come a long way in India in the last few decades. They have seen a visible transformation from a largely observational, field-related exercise t....
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India’s exotic food basket
Hand-rolled pasta with garlic butter caper sauce, served with oven-roasted Brussels sprouts, and on the side, a fresh kale salad with a handful of bocconcini balls. For dessert, a mint-green kiwi sorbet! As exotic and global thes....
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Of, by and for the people
For residents of Bolpur, a city on the outskirts of Kolkata in West Bengal, Dr Sushovan Banerjee is known as the “ek takar daktar” (one rupee doctor). For the past 47 years, he has been treating patients for a nominal fee of ....
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Pause for effect
With the Coronavirus spreading at an alarming rate across the world, many countries adopted systematic lockdowns to slow the rate of infection. Billions of people were confined to the safety of their homes and travel was severely....
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The green responsibility
As I trudge through the winding yet concrete layered track leading up to Kanamo peak in the Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, I can’t help but recall my journey across the same area five years ago when it ....
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The Mandate
May 2019 will no doubt be remembered as a watershed moment in the history of Indian politics. In India’s electoral history, it is only the third time that a political party has succeeded in winning two consecutive terms with full....
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V the people
Jaws dropped worldwide at the mention of 900 million people choosing a government in one giant exercise as India witnessed the 2019 general elections. The biggest democratic exercise in the world, the Indian general election to constitute the 17th Lo....
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