RECENTLY, the tribals at Chidia in the West Singhbhum district in Bihar took up cudgels in protest against the proposed modernisation of Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO) unit. The pent up

An age old principle comes in handy to provide the rural poor with low cost refrigerators

To allow villagers access to many4on technologies available to them 140 before they decide to implementAIM them, the Society for Rural %IV Industrialisation (SRI) in Ranchi,A@ Bihar,

Sriprakash, whose previous film, Kiski Raksha (Whose Safety), on Netarhat - which presented the conflict between the army and local tribes - has finished his second film. Addo Milad

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

The concept of Chakriya Vikas Pranali (CVP) can roughly be translated into English as "Cyclical System of Development". As with all translations, it is a poor copy of the original meaning. The

A new development programme in Palamau in Bihar, a rich land with poor people, can set the pace for a reversal of fortune

Another viral maniac has claimed 200 lives -- including those of 75 children below the age of 10 -- in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. The state's health department officials of suspect that

Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'

A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women

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