The apple season in Himachal Pradesh spells good earnings for workers from India and Nepal

A Dimapur entrepreneur finds an alternative to plastic and generates employment as well

Project Apple Unnati helps Uttarakhand farmers grow the fruit as a creeper

A new app, Good Vibes, introduces the deaf-blind to a tactile language that could transform their lives

Alka Gujnal has ensured that destitute sex workers are treated with dignity

Their fields, and lives, are blooming, thanks to horticulture and improved farming techniques

Kanoh, on the world heritage site Kalka-Shimla Line in Himachal Pradesh, has no roads, only train tracks

Meet Sevaram, who has made it his life’s mission to care for the migrant visitors to a Rajasthan hamlet every year

Plan India nurtures girls into community leaders through a novel ‘takeover’

The administration and water friends or jal sakhis ensure that conservation steps are implemented

A retired school teacher brings colour and comfort to hospital patients by stitching blankets for them

This Himalayan Buddhist hamlet in Arunachal Pradesh is modernising at its own pace

No more carrying night soil on the head. Nai Disha uplifts women through training in livelihood skills

A campaign by a practising gynaecologist is making a big difference to women being treated for breast cancer

Women in HP are becoming financially independent thanks to pine needles

How Nagaland’s mini city has transformed itself

A hygiene drive with ‘soap banks’ is helping school children in Bihar stay healthy

Now a micro entrepreneur, Ganeshi Meghwal recounts her struggle with child marriage and violence

Sarbjeet Singh helps provide food, free, to attendants of patients — through chapati donations by school students

Manipur’s rich plant wealth is a gift to mankind that needs to be nurtured with care, says biotech entrepreneur Rajkumar Kishor

How quilting discarded clothes is being used to empower women

Construction of tunnels to connect what will be the world’s tallest railway bridge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district has left scores of villages without water

The village of Seri in Himachal Pradesh is going all out to protect the endangered bird species

How an anganwadi centre came up in Chittorgarh’s Arania village

An intervention programme in Gujarat helps achieve safe motherhood

How a bird habitat in AP is being protected and developed, thanks to the passion of a self-taught ornithologist

Telangana cotton farmers take up mango plantation to diversify crops, check soil erosion

How a hospital in rural Kashmir coped during the lockdown

Village women in Punjab are being nudged to revive the dying craft of weaving the ‘azarband’

An initiative to build groundwater reserves has turned farmers’ fortunes in Raigad district

Himachal Pradesh is innovating with community sanitary complexes across districts

Going back to traditional foods could reduce malnutrition and promote livelihood options

Dheberia embroidery with sheep wool empowers the Rabari pastoral community

A joint project educating Uttar Pradesh farmers on sustainable agriculture practices has helped improve output

An NGO makes aprons innovative tools to educate the young on reproductive health

A facelift is being given to a ‘geological gem’ in Maharashtra, a unique site ‘visited’ by a meteorite 50,000 years ago

A unique exhibition in Haryana showcased rural life before the advent of modernisation

The Women’s Technology Park in Salem is turning rural women into entrepreneurs, through sustainable schemes

An intervention in Agra district gets children back to school

Telemedicine and IT-enabled healthcare systems are making distance treatment a reality in rural Rajasthan

Her life is a drive off the beaten track, and it has not been easy

Those who have recovered from mental illness need to be mainstreamed

A fascinating tale of how the humble coconut became a govt school teacher’s artistic calling