Health The Golden Hour campaign: Street play organised to raise awareness about snake bites As part of its awareness campaign to inform rural residents about the measures needed to prevent deaths due to snake...
OUR ENVIRONMENT The Tale of a Striped Monk The tiger is a monk. It won’t bother you, or be bothered by you. It tries to maintain its composure...
Livelihood Tamarind cakes aid incomes of tribal women in Odisha’s Rayagada Tribal residents in Odisha’s Rayagada are able to supplement their livelihoods by producing tasty and marketable cakes from using tamarind...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Mediating between villagers and an elephant herd, forest guard Jasbin Salker Aind sacrificed his life Between 2019-20 and 2021-22, at least 1,578 people have died of elephant attacks in the country. Odisha tops the list...
NEWS ETC Nothing bullish about Jharkhand’s largest cattle fair as low rainfall and fear of drought hit sales Every Sunday, hundreds of farmers in northwest Jharkhand, and their cattle in varying sizes, colours and breeds, make their way...
Livelihood Rural women add spice to their livelihoods A year ago, a group of rural women in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, got together as a self-help group and started...
Livelihood Watermelon cultivation and a women farmers’ company script success in Bankura, West Bengal Traditionally, small and marginal farmers in Bankura district, West Bengal, have cultivated paddy and earned meagre returns. But the introduction...
Health Heart Under Attack: A new study links exposure to air pollutants to cardiovascular diseases A recent study undertaken in West Bengal by Climate Trends and IIT Delhi shows a higher prevalence of upper and...
NEWS ETC Fear of drought looms large over Bundelkhand; paddy and pulses crops affected Half of the southwest monsoon season is almost over, and several districts in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and...
English Six panchayats in Rayagada district of Odisha affected by cholera outbreak; 9 dead, several ill Villagers in cholera-hit Kashipur block of Rayagada complain that they have been forced to drink contaminated water from tubewells, open...
