Reportage ‘Sex workers in Asansol sitting on a ticking time bomb of HIV/AIDS’ For four years now, the ‘Targeted Interventions Under National AIDS Control Programme’ is suspended in Asansol, West Bengal, because of...
Reportage Over a million migrant workers returned to rural Bengal in the lockdown. Can MGNREGS alone support them? Till June end, at least 1.3 million Bengali migrant labourers returned to the state due to the lockdown in view...
Reportage Coal India trade unions begin three-day strike over commercial mining. One dead in land subsidence accident near coal mine pit in West Bengal A land subsidence accident in Jambad open-cast mining pit of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd,...
Reportage After suffering lockdown losses in the boro paddy season, farmers in the rice bowl of Bengal face delay in sowing aman paddy Farmers in large parts of West Bengal grow three paddy crops a year — boro (summer), aus (autumn) and aman...
Reportage Assam oil well fire rages on. Two firefighters dead; at least 7,000 villagers affected. Oil spill in a two-km radius Of the total 19 wells of Oil India Limited in the Baghjan area in the Tinsukia district of Assam, well...
Reportage Cyclone Amphan: Those left behind in Sundarbans have nothing to rebuild their lives with Cyclone Amphan made landfall on May 20 and battered the islands in the Sundarbans. Gaon Connection travelled to the cyclone-affected...
Reportage The mining of coal has continued even during the COVID-19 lockdown. But, what about the mineworkers’ health and safety? Mining activities were exempted from the lockdown by the Union Home Ministry. The Directorate General of Mines Safety issued a...
Reportage At least 72 dead as Cyclone Amphan tears into Sundarbans and West Bengal Early reports by Gaon Connection show flooding and strong winds of the cyclone have destroyed fishing ponds, lakes, poultry farms,...
