Uncategorized Union Budget 2021: Funds to tackle air pollution slashed by half. About 1.69 million people annually die in India due to air pollution In the last Budget 2020, a sum of Rs 4,400 crore was allocated towards controlling air pollution, but this largely...
Uncategorized Thousands of Maharashtra farmers protesting the new farm laws to reach Mumbai today. Likely to submit a memorandum to the Governor tomorrow Over 15,000 farmers, led by the All India Kisan Sabha, Maharashtra, started their vehicle march from Nashik on January 23...
Reportage Women Farmer’s Day: 7 out of 10 rural women in India work in the agriculture sector under highly exploitative working conditions It is Mahila Kisan Diwas. And thousands of women farmers, protesting for the last 55 days in Delhi against the...
Reportage Cyclone Nivar, Cyclone Burevi and now heavy January rainfall; Tamil Nadu farmers never had it this bad before Two back-to-back cyclones — Nivar and Burevi — destroyed over thousands hectares of crops in the southern state. Several farmers...
Reportage Tamil Nadu receives highest January rainfall in last 100 years; heavy crop losses in Cauvery delta Tamil Nadu’s normal January rainfall is 18 mm. Already, this month, the state has received 124.8 mm. The previous heaviest...
Reportage India has over two million underpaid anganwadi workers. The Badaun gangrape victim was one of them. Like the Badaun gangrape victim, there are more than 2.6 million frontline women workers who run over 1.36 million anganwadis...
Reportage More than four people died every day in India in 2020 due to extreme weather events: IMD report Cyclone, heavy rainfall, flood, thunderstorms and lightning, cold wave — the India Meteorological Department documents loss of at least 1,680...
Reportage|Gaon Connection Survey 50% rural Indians trust coronavirus vaccine made by an Indian company over a foreign company; nearly half will vote for any party that offers the vaccine free: Gaon Connection Survey The first survey of its kind on ‘COVID-19 Vaccine and Rural India’ by Gaon Connection Insights surveyed 6,040 rural citizens...
Reportage Safety, shortage and scaling-up: How prepared is India for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine? India has the world’s largest immunisation programme, annually covering 157 million newborn, young children and pregnant women. The Indian government...
Reportage Can the Centre’s new ordinance on air pollution clean up NCR-Delhi’s air? Experts’ opinion divided. Whereas some have welcomed the new commission on air pollution with representatives from different states and ministries, others have termed...
