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AT the headquarters of the Union Jal Shakti ministry in New Delhi, Bharat Lal, additional secretary and director, Jal Jeevan Mission, clicks on his computer to check on the progress of the government’s massive programme to ensure that every rural household has a functional tap connection for drinking water by 2024. The dashboard of the…

Nowhere is this dictum more precious than in India’s arid countryside. Farmers here have now realised that technology, community and shared resources can vastly improve their lot Drip, drip: Bhikabhai More shows off his micro-irrigation network in Khoraj village in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district. Photo by Bandeep Singh 40% savings in water and labour costs if…

A participatory project involving farmers and elected water users’ committees ensures water to the last farm in parched Bundelkhand. Streaming live: Water users’ committee members with irrigation department officials at the Rohini dam Mardan Lal, 60, a resident of Chauka village of Mehroni tehsil in Lalitpur district, Bundelkhand, was very worried last year when the…

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is confident the upcoming assembly election, scheduled for April 6, will see his Left Democratic Front (LDF) government return to power. If the LDF does win a consecutive term, it will be a political first, over the past four decades, Kerala has traditionally seen LDF and Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF)…

When Ashok Soni, the Madhya Pradesh zone chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on March 20, proposed the name of sah sarkaryavah (joint general secretary) Dattatreya Hosabale for the post of sarkaryavah (general secretary), it became clear that the Sangh was on the path of a generational shift. Soni’s proposal was seconded by other…

The game is on, And how. As Bengal inched towards the first phase of an assembly election that has implications not just for the state but for the entire country, all stakeholders brought out their heavy artillery. In an indication of how big the Bengal prize is, the Bharatiya Janata Party had all its big…

On March 19, at an election rally in Doom Dooma in upper Assam, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “liar” for not fulfilling the promise he had made in 2016 to tea garden workers to raise their daily wages. The next day, at a rally in Chabua, 30 km away, Modi…

Political BFFs TMC turncoat Sovan Chatterjee and Baisakhi Banerjee quit the BJP on March 15 after both were denied tickets. The two have made headlines in the past for their close friendship. They had joined the BJP together in August 2019 and have repeatedly threatened to quit together. This time, the threat, it seems, wasn’t…

Since 2006, one political party, the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), has been a part of every coalition government in Assam. Formed in 2005, it shared power with Congress between 2006 and 2016. Just before the assembly poll in 2016, it dumped its former ally and joined hands with the BJP. In February this year, the…

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