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How Pullampara Became India's 1st Digital Literate Village

Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com travels to Pullampara to discover how it became India's first digital literate village. IMAGE: Panchayat Digi-Pullampara team Vice President Aswathy, President P V......

'It was Maulana Azad who set up IITs with full support of Nehru'

'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.' IMAGE: From left to right, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, president of the Indian National Congress;......

'Nari shakti', festivals, spirituality themes of this year's states' tableaux

"Nari shakti" and women empowerment dominated the theme of tableaux of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Tripura at the Republic Day parade here on Thursday. IMAGE: Kerala presents......

Can This Babu Be Punjab's Giant Killer?

'The honourable prime minister virtually handpicked me for the Amritsar East seat.''Amit Shahji announced that if I am elected, the whole of Punjab will be drugs free.' IMAGE: Dr Jagmohan Singh......

'This is the moment to reintroduce wealth tax'

'From March 2020 to November 2021, the combined wealth of the billionaires of this country has doubled.' IMAGE: A homeless girl asks for alms outside a coffee shop in Mumbai. Photograph: The Late......

Rural women drive Rs 27,000 crore financial inclusion transactions

Enterprising women business correspondents, known as BC Sakhis, have facilitated transactions worth Rs 27,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh, earning Rs 75 crore in commission over the past four and a half......

How the wealth of India's richest can make a difference

An additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders, while a similar wealth tax on the 98 richest billionaire families......

Odisha: Of unkept promises and chasing big-ticket investments

A large chunk of the Rs 8.8 lakh crore of investments the Patnaik government had attracted is in uncertain territory, says Dillip Satapathy. The ninth of a 10-part series looks at the......

Haryana's mission to become an investment hotspot

Despite the Jat agitation and investor scepticism, the state is trying hard to improve ease of doing business by several notches. The seventh of a 11-part series looks at the state of affairs in......

Jan-Dhan not perfect, but its progress is laudable

The government scheme has a long way to go before its ultimate goals of universal financial inclusion and financial literacy are achieved, says Sumita Kale. The previous article set out the......

More athletes, more medals: India's LA 2028 target

Increased participation should be our goal in new Olympic cycle: Chef de Mission Gagan Narang Photograph: Kind Courtesy Gagan Narang/Instagram Chef de Mission Gagan Narang hailed India's......

'Arjuna award devalued, made cheap'

‘Why do you need to give Arjuna every year. Is it necessary? We are now throwing the awards away’ ‘You can't beg for award or demand it’ IMAGE: Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit......

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