It might be hard to believe today but there was a time in Tamil Nadu when men wanting to marry had to win the trust of the girl’s family by either...

Farmer M Rajamanikam is not very taken by the fact that the cotton crop standing on his farm is considered the “king” of all cotton varieties in the...

On February 10, Maharashtra’s revenue minister, Eknath Khadse, made two announcements. He banned the sale of fodder outside the district where it has...

“We have no water problems anymore. Now, Kshipra ji has sufficient water for everyone,” announces a smiling Manish Dangi, resident of Mudla village in...

FIVE YEARS ago, farmer K C Dinesh planted 2,500 sandalwood saplings on four hectares (ha) of his land in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district. In 10...

BENGALURU CITY’S long drawn battle with the municipal corporation for effective waste management is finally showing results. Just six months after the...

A FOOD SAFETY and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) official walked into Restore, an organic food store at Kottivakkam in Chennai. He picked up a...

I had hardly breathed the phrase “Narmada-Kshipra” when the young driver brightened, and said, “Yes yes! I know the spot!”“You know it?” I echoed in...

JANABAI KOHALE cannot remember a time when she did not have to climb down a well in summer to collect the last drops of water left in it. “There was a...

“We do not know what this project is about,” says Kamlesh Prasad Yadav, resident of Palkohan village in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh. “We...

The new BJP government in Maharashtra has cleared the trust vote with help from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Will it now be in a position to...

All veterinary doctors will unanimously agree that treating ruminaltympany disease (bloated rumen or paunch of the cattle) is difficult. After all, it...