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April 2010 India promises education for all (With Images) ( 15:17:35 Hrs ) Sixty-three years after it got independence from British rule, India has enforced a historic Right to Education (RTE) law that promises literacy for millions of children in this vast and diverse country. Amul: India's brand that nourishes and empowers (With Images) ( 15:16:18 Hrs ) What started as a small cooperative movement over six decades ago in a mid-sized town in the western state of Gujarat has now become an icon of rural empowerment, fashioning in the process what is called the white revolution to catapult India as the world's largest producer of milk. Putting it on record - from dance halls of infamy to India\'s roll of fame (With Images) ( 15:14:36 Hrs ) They are the courtesans of a bygone era who went on to become classical music legends and pioneered the gramophone music industry. But these women, who played a radical role in how Hindustani classical music evolved in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Indian subcontinent, are also the first emancipators who carved an independent identity in an era when women were trapped behind the veil. India's unique train takes science to masses (With Images) ( 15:12:30 Hrs ) It is a train with no specific destination but a mission. Its goal: to take science to India's masses, particularly the youth. The Science Express has been crisscrossing the length and breadth of the country for more than 600 days, attempting to nurture curiosity for science in the young and rekindle interest in the old. March 2010 India's connectivity plan to bridge digital divide (With Images) ( 12:14:37 Hrs ) After seeing its telecom network, with nearly 600 million subscribers, become the second-largest globally, India is charting an ambitious scheme to connect its vast rural hinterland as it tries to reach phone and broadband services to each of its 626,000 villages spread across 28 states and union territories. World's first green legislative building (With Images) ( 12:12:03 Hrs ) It's low on usage of water, power and actually reduces air-conditioning needs by seven percent. The world's first green legislative building in the southern metropolis of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state, has not compromised on tradition either, incorporating a dome in its revolutionary design. Dream run seen for India's media, entertainment industry (With Images) ( 12:09:05 Hrs ) India's $13-billion media and entertainment industry - a vibrant reflection of its growing soft power, fiercely-free press and globally-acclaimed cinema - is set to grow 13 percent per annum to log revenues of $24.25 billion by 2014, says a new study. India moves forward on the highway to women's empowerment (With Images) ( 12:07:06 Hrs ) Empowerment for women from grassroots upwards to make them equal partners in the country's progress and prosperity. That is the vision for the India of tomorrow with a process that started with reserving 33 percent seats for women in village bodies seeing fruition in a bill giving women one-third representation in the national parliament and state legislatures. A new India-Africa business alchemy (With Images) ( 11:56:29 Hrs ) More than 1,000 Indian and African businessmen, political leaders and policymakers descended on the Indian capital mid-March to mine the new business alchemy between the world's second fastest growing economy and the resource-rich 53-nation African continent. The stakes were huge: projects exceeding $10 billion were on the table. They were in areas ranging from power, fertilisers and agriculture to education, small and medium industries and telecommunications but the tension that goes with deal-making was missing. Instead, the businessmen chatted amiably, cracked jokes and, yes, shared ideas and talked business. Febuary 2010 An academy to train world champion archers (With Images) ( 17:36:45 Hrs ) In 1875, diminutive tribal hero Birsa Munda and his army of ethnic revolutionaries from the Jungle Mahal, as the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand was then known, used the humble wooden bow and arrow to fend off the mighty cannons of British imperialists. African players add extra kick to Indian football ( 17:35:31 Hrs ) Four hundred Africans and a million Indian hearts. The equation is quite simple for legions of football fans in the country who, over the last two decades, have seen the game getting new life and energy with African players dominating the Indian turf with their raw power and talent. World's biggest gathering of Hindu faith on banks of Ganges (With Images) ( 17:33:02 Hrs ) They come together in a riotous burst of spirituality and colour once every 12 years - the ash-smeared ascetics, the fearsome Naga seers, the devout and the frankly curious. And they did so this year too when the banks of the Ganges in northern India's Haridwar town rocked to the spirit of the world's largest gathering of Hindu devotees and other seekers at the Maha Kumbh Mela. India sets eyes on becoming 2nd largest steel maker by 2012 (With Images) ( 17:20:16 Hrs ) India has chalked out an ambitious plan to more than double its current capacity of steel output of 57 million tonnes to become the second largest producer in the world as part of its overall thrust on infrastructure development. Grabbing a slice of India's lucrative defence pie (With Images) ( 17:26:51 Hrs ) As India positions itself as an emerging superpower, it is also readying its armed forces to deal with the multi-dimensional challenges that lie ahead with an ambitious expansion plan. And every global arms major is eyeing a share of the $30 billion the country is expected to spend on arms imports over the next decade. January 2010 From fiction to fact: India forever in Afghanistan (With Images) ( 13:36:43 Hrs ) From the days of the gentle Kabuliwala, the eponymous story about a towering Afghan and his relationship with a young girl, to thousands of Indians busy building roads, bridges and power stations amid the relentless violence in Afghanistan, the saga of Indian-Afghan bonding, despite it not finding favour with some countries, has few parallels in the world. A new spring in India-Bangladesh ties (With Images) ( 13:44:39 Hrs ) In the misty chill of Delhi's fierce winter, India and Bangladesh heralded a new spring in their bilateral ties. Taking inspiration from the unity themes in the works of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, the two iconic poets of the subcontinent, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed on Jan 11 took pathbreaking steps to bring their countries closer in the joint task of confronting terrorism and building a new future around three Ts - trade, transit and transport. The brand and the woman: Crafting a success story in rural India ( 13:48:59 Hrs ) Come March and 92-year-old Hansiben will be walking the ramp in New Delhi, the Indian capital. It has been an extraordinary 23-year journey to success for this artisan from a little known village in the state of Gujarat, a state known for its intricate handicrafts, and who has a clothing and accessories brand named after her. Tapping the sun - the next frontier for Solar India (With Images) ( 16:13:52 Hrs ) Abdul Sarkar was worried after he retired as headmaster of a village school in India's eastern West Bengal state. How would he read? His home had no electricity. So this resident of Mousuni village on the edge of the famed mangrove forests of Sundarbans bought a solar panel for about $220 that would light two bulbs for five hours every evening. December 2009 India: the global mediator in Copenhagen ( 07:50:14 Hrs ) India emerged as the global mediator during the recent UN summit on climate change in the Danish capital, working as the link between the developed and the developing world and being part of the Group of 5 countries that rescued the summit from abject failure. Gujarat beckons - from salt desert to Gandhi trail ( 07:56:00 Hrs ) The 10,000-sq km stretch of the vast salt desert in the Rann of Kutch in northern Gujarat along the India-Pakistan border gleams like polar ice caps in the full moon light - eerie and white. Jharkhand creates island sanctuary to protect giant fruit bats ( 07:57:14 Hrs ) The sprawling city of Jamshedpur, home to steel and other heavy industries in Jharkhand state, turns into a vampires' playground soon after sunset. Prehistoric rock paintings tell tales of the past ( 07:58:17 Hrs ) The wonders of lives once lived, the mysteries of humankind's past dating back 15,000 years or more... some of those mysteries have been uncovered in central India with amateur explorers stumbling upon a series of rock paintings hidden away for centuries. Tale of two men, two religions and one secular identity ( 14:34:41 Hrs ) This is not an apocryphal story of a seamless blending of religions in India dating back centuries. Mohammed Yaseen found himself next to an ascetic in a hospital when he was just a teen and narrated stories about the Quran in exchange for the teachings of the Ramayana. More than five decades later, Yaseen gives discourses on Hindu scriptures but continues to be a devout Muslim. June 2009 Commemorating the birth of the Sikh community 400 years ago (With Images) ( 16:25:05 Hrs ) Encapsulating the traditions and beginnings of the Sikh religion for tomorrow's generations, a sprawling heritage complex on the lush green plains of the Indian state of Punjab is getting ready to commemorate the birth of the Khalsa (land of the pure) four centuries ago. India's 'toilet tsar' works sanitation magic - and liberates lives (With Images) ( 14:11:15 Hrs ) It was a job that came with a unique social challenge - that of changing established orders that ordained millions to live a life of indignity by carrying human waste on their heads in hundreds of village that lacked toilet facilities. For Shanti Chaumar and at least 100,000 others, Bindeshwar Pathak, nicknamed India's 'toilet tsar', is the guiding light who has led them out of darkness into a more equitable, hope-filled existence that they could never have dared to aspire.  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13  |
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