NEWS ETC Of all states, only Punjab reported suspected COVID19 deaths due to oxygen shortage: Health Minister Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that all states were asked for COVID19 deaths due to oxygen shortage, but only...
NEWS ETC Gaon Connection Turns 9: Here’s what its founder Neelesh Misra has to say Two out of every three Indians live in rural India, but rural India is media-dark and India’s policymakers and citizens...
NEWS ETC UP kick-starts a special 6-day screening drive amid Omicron threat The Uttar Pradesh government has launched a special six-day screening drive from December 1-6 to enable early detection of the...
NEWS ETC Jaltol, an open-source digital tool to ensure water security in rural India Bengaluru-based Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation has launched a digital tool – Jaltol – that provides remote sensing data...
Health World AIDS Day: 11 steps to reduce AIDS deaths in India In India, about 60,000 AIDS-related deaths were estimated in 2019. People living with HIV in India currently do not have...
Health He threw the liquor bottle to pick up the spice jar and they lived happily ever after Gaon Connection collaborates with the World Health Organization for a social campaign against alcohol abuse. Video and audio stories along...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Artificial lungs turn black in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, just in a week; indicates high air pollution An installation of white faux lungs in Chandrapur turned a sooty black within a week of its being put up,...
NEWS ETC Explained: What is known about Omicron — the worst COVID19 variant ever First discovered in South Africa following a surge in COVID19 infections, isolated cases of people infected with the Omicron variant...
NEWS ETC Parliament passes Bill to repeal the three Farm Laws The Bill to repeal three contentious farm laws has been passed by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha today. The...
NEWS ETC B.1.1.529 variant: Israel ‘on the verge’ of emergency after new strain of COVID19 detected, countries planning to shut borders The new COVID19 strain is said to be more infectious than the Delta variant which wreaked havoc in India during...