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Project SWAPNO has so far been implemented in 22 districts of Bangladesh, benefiting 64,980 people. Photo: Courtesy

Panorama

Project SWAPNO: Marico teams up with the govt to empower rural women

SWAPNO is a social transfer project for ultra-poor women that looks after the local government’s public works programme to engage them in different jobs.

Coronavirus chronicle

Rural India sinks deeper into debt as Covid-19 wipes out work

Thoughts

Covid-19 and the invisibilisation of rural India

Mohammad Anisur Rahman, director of Aarong Dairy. Sketch/TBS

Supplement

Aarong Dairy was founded to change fortune of rural poor

Six million school-going children risk of learning loss: PPRC & BIGD Study

Bangladesh

Six million school-going children risk of learning loss: PPRC & BIGD Study

Education

State University’s new project ‘Prantik Proser’

Mice run away on a farm in Gilgandra, New South Wales, Australia March 12, 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. MELANIE MOERIS/via REUTERS

World+Biz

Plague of mice hits parts of rural Australia

Agent banking accounts double as rural people show interest

Banking

Agent banking accounts double as rural people show interest

Energy

ADB to provide $200m for rural electrification

Photo: Collected

World+Biz

In LDCs, 17% rural populations live with no mobile coverage: Study

Thoughts

The great digital divide and why we should care

The International Day of Rural Women is observed annually on October 15. Photo :Xinhua via UNB

World+Biz

UN for investing in rural women to help build resilience to crises

FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises on the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo

World+Biz

India's Modi launches property card scheme to aid rural households