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No village in India left without access to electricity, claims FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted India's significant progress in electrificati…

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I left Miami for a remote village in Pakistan. I have no running hot water and limited electricity but my quality of life here is infinitely better.

Samantha Shea, 27, grew up in Connecticut and went to college in Miami before relocating to Pakista…

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Elon Musk wants to bring Starlink to the Indian market — but he'll have to get around India's richest tycoon first

Musk's Starlink is lobbying India's government to assign licenses for satellite services, but Amban…

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Meet Meera Vashisht, the 13-year-old girl who is buying LED bulbs for India’s poor

The young girl has raised Rs 1.4 lah to buy 1600 LED bulbs for India's underprivileged.

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Government has electrified 5,537 villages in this fiscal so far

Out of these 5537 villages, 120 are from Odisha, 64 from Jharkhand, 41 from Assam, 19 from Madhya P…

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71 years after Independence, all of India's inhabited villages finally have electricity

However, what’s to be noted is that a village is considered electrified if the basic infrastruct…

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IIT Guwahati’s first year students have a new teacher ‘Albela’ — an Alexa-like chatbot

The bot, developed by the institute’s research scholars, has the ability to answer every possi…

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Centuries-old Indian stepwells may serve as a solution to water conservation during the scorching heat

Stepwells are examples of the many storages and irrigation tanks developed in India, mainly to cope…

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OPINION: How India is trying to tackle China’s military challenge

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget on February 1 has made all the right noises regarding …

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IBM Has A Plan To Use Trashed Laptop Batteries To Power Poor Indian Villages

The IBM study looked at a sample of discarded batteries. Amazingly, it found as much as 70% of them…

Joshua Barrie   


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This Social Enterprise Runs A Global Crowd-funding Platform; Eyes $3-5 Million In Series B Funding

Unlike many other ventures in this space, this social enterprise is a for-profit concern, but has n…

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Indian Pilot Lands Fighter Jet Successfully Amid Complete Electric Failure - Twice In Two Months

"His ability to maintain his composure in a grave emergency situation, courage, creative thinking, …

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Rural Rising In India: Will Villages Dominate The Consumer Market?

Credit Suisse Research Institute’s Emerging Consumer Survey (2014) also points out that rural Indi…

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For 74 Indian activists, the punishment for seeking the truth has been death

Majaw’s death, while tragic, is not surprising. The Right to Information (RTI) activist reveale…

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Here’s what the second phase of the Indian general election has in store for the 11 states polling today

Nearly 5 million people are eligible to vote in the state of West Bengal with a nearly equal d…

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Poster boys of Indian start-ups are now taking up philanthropy

Economic Times reported that 37-year-old Tewari got together 100 alumni from his alma mater Harvard…

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PM Modi Allays Fears Of Railways’ Privatisation

“What we want to do is that instead of putting the common man’s money into the everyday running of …

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Imagining India From The Millennial Perspective

A new generation of Indians, unfettered by the tags that the West bestowed upon the nation (develop…

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Where Entrepreneurs Succeeded Because Government Failed

This may come as a surprise to many but the government (both central and state authorities) has hel…

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