Gaon Connection launches ‘The Golden Hour’ campaign to raise awareness on snakebite deaths With an aim to raise awareness on the issue of snakebites in India, Gaon Connection will launch a month-long campaign...
English While large parts of the country reel under floods, drought like conditions stare farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand India as a whole has received 11 per cent above normal rainfall in the southwest monsoon season, so far. But...
English On paper, tribal families in Guna dist have land pattas. In reality, they remain landless and impoverished. A Gaon Connection ground report After a 22-year long struggle for patta land, Rampyari Bai from Dhanoriya village got her 1.35 hectare land but had...
English Karnataka’s labour banks are killing two birds with one stone A rural development initiative which maintains a ‘labour bank’ in four talukas of Karnataka’s Haveri district has not only sorted...
‘Amarnath cloudburst like incidents likely to increase due to climate change’ According to the notes prepared by a climate change awareness group, with the increasing global temperatures, winds can hold more...
English Drought-prone areas expanding in Maharashtra amidst faltering rainfall: Study As per the findings of a recent study, water bodies in and around the drought-prone Marathwada region of Maharashtra are...
English Rambahadur has helped revive tiger population in Panna. What drove him to kill his mahout Budhram? Animals can be unpredictable and even those who have spent decades looking after them cannot be sure of their behaviour....
English Unnao farmers switch from wheat and paddy and go bananas over profits Banana cultivation in Unnao district is becoming popular with the farmers as they reap profits that are way more than...
English When women dance like mustard seeds: Come, sway to the Rai folk dance of Bundelkhand Bundeli Rai is the traditional folk dance of Bundelkhand. Rai means mustard seed. The way mustard seed swings around in...
English 96% lightning deaths are in rural India; 77% of them are of farmers. A Ground Report from Bihar and UP Despite technology that forecasts lightning strikes and mobile phone applications that pre-warn people, a large number of men and women...
