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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Varanasi and Mirzapur today. The two leaders will jointly inaugurate Uttar Pradesh's largest solar power plant in the Mirzapur district. They will then visit the Deen Dayal Hastkala Sankul - a trade facilitation centre in Varanasi, and also take a boat ride along the Ghats...

Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...

A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted e-boats to the boatmen of Varanasi, the boats are running on oars and muscle power instead of electricity.

Amped up with ham radio broadcasts, solar lights and fleets of boats, launches and steamers, the world's largest mangroves, the Sundarbans, is gearing up to vote in the West Bengal assembly polls notwithstanding connectivity issues stemming from the archipelago's remoteness and wild terrain.

Scanning the horizon on his solar-powered catamaran, Swiss electrical engineer Raphael Domjan counts down the hours to the completion of his record-breaking world tour.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Varanasi and Mirzapur today. The two leaders will jointly inaugurate Uttar Pradesh's largest solar power plant in the Mirzapur district. They will then visit the Deen Dayal Hastkala Sankul - a trade facilitation centre in Varanasi, and also take a boat ride along the Ghats...

Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...

A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted e-boats to the boatmen of Varanasi, the boats are running on oars and muscle power instead of electricity.

Amped up with ham radio broadcasts, solar lights and fleets of boats, launches and steamers, the world's largest mangroves, the Sundarbans, is gearing up to vote in the West Bengal assembly polls notwithstanding connectivity issues stemming from the archipelago's remoteness and wild terrain.

Scanning the horizon on his solar-powered catamaran, Swiss electrical engineer Raphael Domjan counts down the hours to the completion of his record-breaking world tour.