OUR LIFE Their farmland turned barren due to polluting effluent, villagers in UP’s Mirzapur to boycott polls Phase one of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh gets underway. But in Jagapatti village of Mirzapur, the inhabitants say...
NEWS ETC It’s election time and fresh promises are being made to clean up the ‘cancer-causing’ Kali River in UP Kali river, which flows through 80 villages in Muzaffarnagar and Meerut districts of election-bound Uttar Pradesh, has been exposing nearly...
NEWS ETC ‘No road, no vote’: Elections come, elections go, but these villages in UP yet to get a road Poll-bound Uttar Pradesh has a road network of over 300,000 km. But that means nothing to over 40,000 predominantly tribal...
NEWS ETC Two years on, Babulal Singh yet to receive Rs 2 lakh for his paddy procured by the govt Aggrieved by repeated changes and constant delays in paddy procurement and payment, protesting farmers in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh submitted a...
NEWS ETC 3 kids of a Dalit family in Mirzapur die within 4 days; health authorities clueless about the cause The deaths of three children in Rampur Dhabhi village of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh has perplexed the villagers. These kids...
NEWS ETC Basic amenities missing, national athlete KM Chanda’s family lives amidst mining dust in UP’s Mirzapur With no tap water and electricity supply at her house, athlete KM Chanda’s childhood struggles can be imagined by witnessing...
NEWS ETC Slain Sagir Ahmed, a carpenter from UP, went to work in Kashmir to pay off the debt he incurred for his wife’s COVID treatment Six months ago, Sagir Ahmed from Saharanpur lost his wife to COVID19. He had taken a huge loan for her...
NEWS ETC No respite from fevers in Firozabad; families incur heavy debts to treat their kin The first case of ‘fever’ was reported from Nagla Aman in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh on August 18. Five...
Reportage Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Remove Minister Ajay Mishra and punish his son, demand protesting farmers in Mirzapur As thousands of farmers streamed into Lakhimpur Kheri today for the antim ardas of the farmers who were killed on...
Reportage 14-year-old Anjali, the latest victim of the ‘fever’ outbreak in Firozabad There seems to be no end in sight for the nightmare in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, where since mid-August...
