English While Bihar begins to compensate farmers for drought, floods hit parts of the state The Bihar government has officially declared 11 districts as drought-hit. Meanwhile, several other districts have been hit by the floods...
English Bihar: Ganges river dolphins trapped in fishnets and false beliefs As the population of the Ganges river dolphins declined alarmingly, a 60-kilometre stretch along the river in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district...
English ‘The government should declare a drought’ – Gaon Connection’s ground report from rain-starved Bihar Bihar, India’s most flood-prone state and one of the key paddy growing states, has been facing drought conditions. The state...
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...
English Land survey between Kosi river embankments suspended due to strong protests by villagers in Bihar Bihar’s Kosi river is known to change its course of flow thereby submering new lands. Who does this submerged land...
English Pandemic, poverty, recurring floods and human bondage in Bihar Bihar is India’s most flood-prone state and recurring floods, apart from displacing millions every year, also contribute to human trafficking...
English Teatime in Kishanganj Kishanganj is being promoted as the “Darjeeling of Bihar”, and nearly 15,000 acres of land are under cultivation of tea....
English Bihar’s nilgai nightmare: Farmers demand an end to crop depredation The nilgai has become a thorn in the side of hundreds of thousand farmers in Bihar as no amount of...
