As Class 5 students Bhavana and Kiran struggled to read words and solve basic addition and subtraction, their classmates stepped in and came up with different tools to help the two — creating word games, playing with letter cards, and making use of pebbles or leaves to learn mathematics. Within days, Bhavana and Kiran —…
Bucking the national trend, Haryana’s state-owned discoms have over the past six years seen a decrease in their aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses — by 50 per cent. Speaking to The Indian Express, Haryana Power Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala attributed the fall in losses mainly to checks on electricity theft and recovery of pending…
4 min readChennaiUpdated: Aug 29, 2022 07:08 AM IST Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district, located to the north of the capital city of Chennai, has long been notorious for the prevalence of bonded labour. Now, around a hundred emancipated labourers and their families are shaping their own future — by co-owning and operating a brick kiln,…
4 min readPatnaUpdated: Sep 5, 2022 07:08 AM IST WALKING INTO the collectorate in Saharsa, one can easily be confused. Tables are no longer burdened with dusty files and corridors are no longer congested by rusty almirahs. Instead, there are laptops all around and e-tracking of information is the mantra. From the dealing assistant to…
5 min readChandigarhUpdated: Sep 9, 2022 09:24 PM IST Kuharianwali, a village in the Fazilka district of Punjab, has become a trendsetter in expanding forest cover. As of 2021, according to data from the Forest Research Institute, the district had just 1.34 per cent forest cover, one of the lowest in the state. The district…
5 min readMumbaiUpdated: Sep 12, 2022 10:55 AM IST When Tejaswi Satpute, a 2012-batch IPS officer was posted in Solapur (Rural) as Superintendent of Police in October 2020, she knew exactly where to start. Seven years earlier, as a young IPS probationer, she had spent over two weeks in the area, during which she had…
Meenabai Sachin Pawra gave birth to a boy on July 27 in Taloda Taluka of Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district. The child was underweight — like many others in this tribal-dominated district, among those with the highest burden of malnourished children in the country. But just within the first week of August, his weight increased from 2.18…
4 min readMumbaiUpdated: Nov 3, 2022 12:43 PM IST THREE-MONTH pregnant Sana Raju Sheikh, 28, heaved a sigh of relief with the opening of Hinduhridayasamrat Balasaheb Thackeray (HBT) polyclinic and diagnostic centre in her neighbourhood in Chougule, Borivali, as it saved her the hassle of travelling to the centre at Carter Road five kilometres away….
Last year, a small board inside the Station Master’s room at the Dadar railway station in Mumbai was taken down. That board, saying “No enquiry please”, had been there for years to ward off passengers with queries about platforms, trains and even toilets. “We used to think it was not our job. But not anymore,”…
