Technology has crept in and changed our lives, and we’ve hardly realized it. Laptops, mobile phones, internet, memory cards – a.k.a. ‘chips’: entertainment, education, information are only a step away…
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Sitamarhi district, Bihar.We’d only heard about the gasifier machine being used in Uttar Pradesh! But now you see these machines in districts of Bihar too. In Bhutahi village of Sonbarsa…
Aura village, Tariyani block, Sheohar District, Bihar. In the government secondary school here, and in Salempur secondary school, computers sit on the desk, but there is no power to run…
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Why Biogas is on the Downhill in Villages
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 20, 2014Biogas or Gobar gas plants are still up and running in rural Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. At a time, the tank used in these plants is filled with 30 kilos…
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Let There Be Light – Stories of innovation from rural UP and Bihar
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 20, 2014Banaras District, Uttar Pradesh. “When I grow up, I want to make big battery chargers so that every household has access to electricity.” In Banaras’ Kashi Vidyapeeth block, 12-year old Aman…
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No resettlement, but relief camps being uprooted
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 14, 2014Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. Relief camps set up for riot survivors in Loi and Sanjhak have been uprooted by the local administration. Camps in Shahpur and Bassikalan too have been removed.…
In a context where farmers depend wholly on agriculture for their family’s food and their livelihood, and organic or indigenous alternatives to pesticides are few and far between, KL reporters…
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Bihar’s flutes played in Nepal and Bangladesh
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 14, 2014Chandiya village, Sitamarhi District. Flutes made in Chandiya village of Riga block are famous not only in all of Bihar but also in the rest of the country and in Nepal…
In the battle against the British on June 14, 1857, over 3000 revolutionaries from Banda were killed. But the Banda Gazette declared only 800 dead. Around the Bhuragarh fort many…
This beautiful dam is in Rasin panchayat of Chitrakoot. Construction began in 2005, and is still in progress. This dam is built over hundreds of bighas of land. Budhun and…