The World Bank’s Development Marketplace grants programme selects social enterprises delivering development solutions across different geographies for funding in India each year. This year’s winners will be announced later this week in Guwahati. Country director Onno Ruhl discussed the programme, and the World Bank’s engagement with the new government, with Yamini Lohia. Excerpts: Do you…
Life on the river islands of Assam in north-east India is full of ironies. Floods are an annual affair here during monsoons, ravaging homes and fields, sweeping away lives, and eroding chunks of land mass, sometimes devouring an entire village. And yet it was the dry season that caused trouble for Kaushalya Das of Majuli…
C-NES’ documentary 'Where there are no roads' on its innovative Boat Clinic health care services directed by Maulee Senapati and scripted and produced by Sanjoy Hazarika was successfully screened at the World Bank premises in Hindustan Times House in New Delhi on 14th May 2014 to a packed crowd. The screening started with an introductory remark by Onno…
Usability and reliable connectivity is critical in the widespread adoption of connected medical devices. The ability for patients and providers to collect, access, and share data seamlessly, regardless of the product brand or wireless connection, will increase confidence and the application of connected medical devices, thereby helping consumers and providers better manage personal health and…
क्यों सुलगता है बोडोलैंड असम के बोडो क्षेत्रीय परिषद इलाके में हाल ही हुई हत्याओं और भय के माहौल की खबरें अखबारों के मुखपृष्ठ और टेलीविजन की हेडलाइंस से उसी तेजी से गायब हुईं, जिस तीव्रता से उन्होंने देश का ध्यान खींचा था। चुनावी गहमागहमी में ऐसा होना अस्वाभाविक नहीं है। मगर लोग इससे परेशान…
Indian political pundits and election officials are probably extremely dismayed with the violence in Assam state , in the country's northeast, which has blotted efforts for a peaceful national election. More than 40 persons have died in the attacks , almost all of them being Bengali-origin Muslims, in a sudden, ugly burst of killings in one of…
As one of the most vituperative election campaigns in this country winds down, we cannot but wonder if India and its people deserve any or all of these prime candidates hurling angry words and ugly images at each other. But then the question is if whether we really have much of a choice: probably not.…
Sangeeta Baruah from C-NES regional office, Guwahati won the Third Prize in the All Assam Poetry Writing Competition held at Jorhat by the Enajori Sahitya Sanskriti Gusthi on 23th March, 2014. She has been regularly contributing her poems in various magazines and dailies across Assam.
As the election tempo increases in some areas and remains low in other parts of the country, India is lurching into a period of reckoning for its immediate and long-term future, a future where a new, younger generation of voters have the say in who will form the next government and perhaps be the country’s…
