A 30 year saga
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
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
Last year, when a herd of elephants from the Purulia forests of Bihar made its annual trek to greener areas in the Bankura and Medinipur districts of West Bengal, it strayed close to Calcutta,
To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good intentions
Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans
This indicative plan has based on the work of field/park directors and their colleagues in the eight protected areas, and of various non-governmental organisations involved in carrying out PRA in the proposed project area.
The cash-strapped Bihar government has plugged funds meant for the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) for flood control measures. The state's rural development department has asked the district magistrates
When the army and the government team up to form an assault team against villagers protesting against a firing range, all hell can break loose
Tapan Bose's Jharkhand, 10 years in the making, has a participative view of the timeless, unspoilt lives of Adivasis stripped of their land
Effluents from a liquor factory in Banka district spell doom for many villages around the unit and also pollute the Ganga.
Oustees of the Kutku and Auranga dams in Bihar complain media attention is the only way of getting justice from the government, but the media devotes its ink only to big money projects
If the mid-August assault on some officials of the Bihar water resources department, on an inspection tour of the eastern Kosi embankment in Saharsa, is anything to go by, flood control officials in
Sugar and paper mills in Bihar and tanneries in West Bengal have been penalised by the Supreme Court for continuing to discharge untreated waste into the Ganga and its tributaries.
Even as the state government continues to accuse Tata Iron & Steel Company (TISCO) of unchecked deforestation around Jamshedpur, it has also locked horns with TISCO over riparian rights in the
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.