Varsha Singh
Passionate about social issues, especially children and women’s rights, rising inequity and human rights, Varsha Singh, a Post-Graduate in English (Hons) from Calcutta University and Mass Communications from St Xavier’s Calcutta, gravitated naturally to journalism in 2013. Varsha has made her passions the subject matter of her work and she has been writing regularly about these issues, besides business, tourism, culture and politics. Of late, Varsha has been pursuing another passion, multimedia journalism making videos reports on social issues and current affairs, looking at them with a different lens. Outside of her work, Varsha is equally passionate about cinema, music, travel and tea. Indeed, she is the inhouse film and music encyclopedia and a full-time chai-o-holic.
India needs more solar-based cold storage units
May 18, 2018
Low cost manufacturing and negligible operating costs of solar powered cold storage facilities will increase the shelf life of the fruits and vegetables and make it affordable for many farmers in India. Cold storage facility is the biggest need for farmers in the country. Every y...
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Pakistan’s military wants peace and dialogue with India
May 16, 2018
Pakistan’s COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa thinks that the way to peace and prosperity in his country is through military cooperation with India. The two countries along with China will take part in joint military drills in Russia, in September this year. In an attempt towards f...
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Six-month jail term for abandoning and abusing parents
May 14, 2018
The government plans to increase jail term from three to six months for abusing or abandoning parents. The government also plans to widen the definition of children under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The Narendra Modi led BJP government ...
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All villages electrified but what about the houses?
May 14, 2018
According to a Bloomberg report, less than 8 pc of the newly electrified villages had all homes electrified; 30.6 million rural households in the country are yet to receive a power connection.
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