Simply Put: United by waste

How India's water conservation methods can be upgraded to fit rural requirements

In the absence of holistic strategies, the urban issues may get induced to the resource-constrained rural areas

Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India

The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …

WATCH : Second COVID-19 wave had profound impact on rural India

Tier-3 and tier-4 districts witnessed a higher increase in deaths during the second wave of COVID-19 compared to the first one  

MGNREGA budget cut sends wrong signal, goes against Odisha’s successful policy experiment

Collaborative MGNREGA implementation in Odisha improved livelihoods; such efforts will be discouraged by budget cut

How rural India spends

Contrary to general perception, rural people in India are spending more on commodities that are considered major urban expenditure

Bringing tap water to rural Chhattisgarh using solar energy: Jal Jeevan Mission’s success story

Getting basic rights to water and sanitation at the grassroots level has always been a challenge for India. But Bastar shows a solution is possible

Most Indian villages do not have any waste management infrastructure: Study

With a changing consumer landscape, single-use, low-quality plastics are contributing to the growing waste problem in rural India

Demand of record 30 million jobs for MGNREGS reflects rural distress

Men outnumbered women for the 1st time in job demand

Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India

Corporate India gets indirect subsidy equivalent to 60 per cent of government expenditure on rural areas

In the next 14 months, 62 countries will go to polls

India’s 130 million first-time voters will play a decisive role in the world’s state of economy

No elixir for rural India: Union Budget 2023-24 has very little to offer the rural population; here’s why

The last full budget before the incumbent party seeks re-election in May 2024 should have targeted India’s suffering rural folk to enable …

Cancer among elderly women more prevalent than among men: LASI report

Himachal Pradesh, at 2.2%, showed the highest self-reported prevalence of cancer in adults aged 45 and above 

‘Separate power feeders can greatly improve rural electrification’

Over 65 years after Independence, nearly half of the 800 million people living in rural India are yet to get access to electricity. A major …

COVID-19 lockdown highlights India’s great digital divide

Despite the rise in wireless users in recent years, urban and rural India are miles apart in their online presence

No smartphones, internet access: Odisha’s rural kids caught in digital divide

More than 70% rural children studying in a government elementary school in the state do not have laptops or smartphones  

Child malnutrition is down: survey

Prevalence of underweight children down from 76  to 43 per cent for boys, 74 to 42 per cent for girls over past  four decades, says …

Crowdsourcing technology could ensure safety of drinking water in rural India

Research group develops a simple test kit that combines science and mobile phones