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The story behind the Solar Village Project Solar Initiative in Tamil Nadu’s Irumbai
Depending on the traffic to the search engine, the group will install a certain number of solar panels in the village.
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A Digital Book Library for Blind Students Is Helping Them Visualise a Bright Future
Bengaluru based Samarthanam Trust for Disabled has 5,000 audio books to help students with disabilities achieve their educational goals.
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Indian conservationist wins Whitley award for saving elephants via SMS
Dr Ananda Kumar wins one of seven ‘Green Oscars’ for his system of reducing human-elephant conflict by tracking and texting elephants’ locations to people
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India’s move to e-governance exposes ancient flaws
At present, IT is reinforcing more than attacking inequality: men are benefiting more than women; the rich are benefiting more than the poor. The challenge is to create the conditions for reversing the polarities