Simply Put: Republic Day 2023

International Women's Day: How Nira Chhatria ensured her family's survival with a phone and just Rs 3,000

Nira Chhatria was chosen as a participant when Trickle Up began working with ultra-poor women in Odisha in 2015

Earth day musings: Can this pandemic change the idea of a city?

Post-pandemic, the new normal in our cities need to be more humane and inclusive and urban renewal must be designed on a human scale

Vanishing glaciers forests: Google’s Earth Day doodle shows how climate change altered the planet

Mount Kilimanjaro, Sermersooq, Great Barrier Reef, Harz Forests featured in the doodle

One step forward, two steps back

The initial phase of UPA II witnessed prolific rule making, but this was not followed up with responsible governance

Autistic Pride Day 2020 dedicated to neurodiversity, celebrating differences

Autistic Pride Day, celebrated every year on June 18, spreads the message that people with autism do not have a disease

Rare Disease Day: 475 million across the world affected by rare diseases, says study

Rare Disease Day is observed on February 29

World Water Day 2023: Dharwad revived traditional ponds to recharge its groundwater

Under Jal Jeevan Mission, groundwater sources are recharged and augmented by revived ponds that act as village-level groundwater-recharge …

Simply Put: 75 years of Indian independence

Simply Put: V-Day now

World Water Day 2023: Traditional reverence helped preserve and tap North Sikkim’s springs

Facililated by the Jal Jeevan Mission, around 90 per cent of the households in the district now have functional household tap connections

Costing norms for mid-day meals, Anganwadis not revised despite food inflation

Schools, Anganwadis find it difficult to meet nutritional needs of children, mothers, as a result

World Health Day: ‘Enable all rural Indian girls to avail education, regardless of categories’

In states like Rajasthan, pre-matric scholarships are restricted to socially disadvantaged populations and sums vary across categories, which …

World Water Day 2023: Nuapada switched to surface from ground sources to solve its problems of quality and quantity

After the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, the district witnessed a drastic change in the sector of rural water supply. River water was …

World Water Day 2023: Ladana in Rajasthan made conjunctive use of ground, surface sources to solve its scarcity problem

The village dug three wells and constructed an overhead tank that can store both groud and surface water

Bihar schoolkids to grow organic vegetables, fruits for their mid-day meals

After a successful pilot project, 20,000 schools will now be given Rs 5,000 each and asked to develop kitchen gardens

Stockholm 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment: World Environment Day 2022

It became the first UN conference which had the word environment in its title.

International Women's Day: Mungli Lohar leads the way in a Saranda forest

A small help nudged her to entrepreneurship

Simply put: Happy Independence Day

Simply put: India will soon run out of water

Simply put: Day zero

What are we doing to stop plastic menace?

The mission to end the plastic menace must include ending single-use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel-based materials, …

May Day, the spring festival

Ancient roots of a modern holiday

World Food Day: Preserving food diversity vital to achieve zero hunger by 2030

Increasing production of staple crops such as wheat, rice and maize cannot meet the rising food demand. That is why we need to fall back on …

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Scientists predict a total system crash in July 2018 for Cape Town’s water supply