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The Hindu Explains: From Dhivya Suryadevara to Maharashtra plastic ban

CM Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Ministers Satyendra Jain and Gopal Rai at the Raj Niwas visitors' room on Tuesday evening.

Nine days of Delhi dharna: a recap

The Hindu Net Desk When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal left Raj Niwas — the official residence of Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal — to his home on June 20, it made headlines in the media. While a chief minister visiting an L-G's office is not new, a chief minister and his cabinet colleagues occupying the visitor's lounge of Raj Niwas for nine days is something unheard of.On June 11, Mr. Kejriwal convened a press conference and accused the Delhi bureaucrats of skipping meetings called by him and his

The Hindu Explains: From farmers scheme to monsoons

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The Hindu Explains: From farmers scheme to monsoons

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Impact Journalism Day 2018

Solutions come from below

Environmental degradation and barriers to women's development are among the major challenges faced by countries in the developing world today. Pollution is rising, as governments struggle to cope with a mounting waste burden. Women face hurdles to greater participation in society and the workforce. They also seek more educational opportunities. Only an enlightened response from policymakers, and innovative initiatives from civil society can address these and other challenges, and make the goals

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Shaping a better future together

As communication technology develops, people have access to more information than ever before, literally at their fingertips.Read all the stories from Impact Journalism Day 2017But how many of us can say that we are truly well informed?Headlines tend to paint a bleak picture of our world: conflict, terrorism, hunger, climate change, social injustice — the list goes on. We are indeed facing complex and seemingly insurmountable challenges. Yet the full picture also offers solutions and reasons for

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The town that banned plastic

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Impact Journalism Day 2018 Langouët, the 100% green little Gallic village

Mathilde Golla “Small is beautiful” would be an ideal slogan for the village of Langouët in Brittany, northern France. This community of 600 inhabitants, located near Rennes, is well on the way to energy autonomy and is aiming for food self-sufficiency, too. Over the past 20 years, Langouët has been developing a whole host of green projects, designed to meet these objectives: since 2004, a canteen that serves 100% organic and local produce; passive social housing (no active heating used, or very little); a

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Impact Journalism Day 2018 Tale Me: clothes for a circular economy

Ludivine Ponciau The textile industry generates 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, more than those of all international flights and maritime shipping combined, according to a damning report issued in 2017 by Britain’s Ellen MacArthur Foundation. At the same time, large clothing retailers are being accused of destroying thousands of tonnes of new unsold clothing to ease the pressure on storage facilities.It’s been five years since the fast-fashion scandal triggered by the Rana Plaza

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