Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely ...

Restoring the vitality of MGNREGA is not just about employment, it is about sustaining the economic engine that keeps India’s ...

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Mahatma Gandhi believed that India lives in its villages. His ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how ...

The objective of rapid development of rural population in a sustainable manner with a view to bridging the urban–rural divide would require leveraging knowledge and technology in an environment ...

India has an estimated 378 million young people, nearly two-thirds of whom live in rural areas. Yet despite accounting for ...

Just a few years ago the people of Churni probably would have had a better chance of spotting an endangered tiger than enjoying a steady internet signal. Doing simple everyday tasks online in this out ...

NEW DELHI – In the small village of Alwar, Rajasthan, eighteen-year-old Afseena sat on the mud floor of her home, flipping through the worn pages of her only textbook. She had read the same lessons ...

Rural women across India are adapting to climate change in informal ways rooted in cultural practices and indigenous wisdom.

Bettiah: Several villages such as Dhanaha, Bagaha, Piprasi, and Thakraha in Bihar’s West Champaran district, along with ...

India has formally closed its decades-old chapter on shared rural telephony as Village Public Telephones (VPTs) fell to zero ...