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India start-ups eye rural markets to drive next leg of growth

Getty Images A bulk of India’s 1.4 billion people live in villages The tiny villages of Haryana state in India’s…

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Games

Japanese Rural Life Adventure is my favorite farming sim for mobile

Japanese Rural Life Adventure is what it says on the tin — it’s a 16-bit-style farming sim that takes place…

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Environment

Protecting the Green Triangle: experts warn of ‘irreversible’ groundwater decline | Rural Australia

Some of the best-quality groundwater in Australia underlies the upper and lower south-east of South Australia and parts of south-western…

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Environment

Pylons rule and rural beauty is up for sale. Why do those in power so hate the countryside? | Simon Jenkins

Does Labour believe in beauty? The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, celebrated his arrival in office this summer by permitting three…

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Health

Growing divide: Rural men are living shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts

Rural men are dying earlier than their urban counterparts, and they’re spending fewer of their later years in good health,…

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Environment

Expanding Victoria’s largest goldmine could affect nearby houses and contaminate groundwater, locals say | Rural Australia

As a proposal to extend the life of Victoria’s biggest goldmine goes under the spotlight, Kirsty McDonald stands on one…

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Politics

Democrats hope Sen. Sherrod Brown can win in Ohio by losing less in rural counties : NPR

The Mahoning County Republican Party tent at the Canfield Fair, Canfield, OH, August 28, 2024. Rebecca Kiger for NPR hide…

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Health

How older adults navigate their health care needs in rural America : The Picture Show : NPR

A rainstorm passes over Interstate 94 in Morton County, N.D., on May 25. Inclement weather and long travel distances to…

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Health

In this rural small town, a group of locals steps up to support senior health : NPR

Don Fitterer, 81, sits for a portrait at his home in Glen Ullin, N.D., on May 23. Fitterer is a…

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Tech

Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert

New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen There’s something about the…

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