OUR ENVIRONMENT La Niña, coupled with extreme cold this winter, to peak air pollution in north India, warn weather experts Air quality has already hit the ‘severe’ category in Delhi-NCR and the situation is expected to get worse as meteorologists...
Reportage Ahead of Diwali, Delhi’s air quality dips to ‘very poor’ category; likely to remain so till Nov 6 Delhi’s AQI slipped to the ‘very poor’ category on November 2 and as per the India Meteorological Department the air...
Reportage WHO finally grants emergency use approval to Bharat Biotech’s COVID19 vaccine Covaxin So far, the WHO has approved six COVID19 vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Sinopharm, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Covaxin for...
Reportage Rural development ministry clarifies funds availability for MGNREGA; states seek additional money Responding to the concerns raised by the recently released MG-NREGA National Tracker that shows 90 per cent funds already exhausted...
Reportage COP26: PM Modi announces India’s commitment to achieve net-zero emission by 2070. Here’s what experts have to say At the 26th international climate conference in Glasgow, PM Narendra Modi announced that India would reduce its carbon emissions intensity...
Reportage Share of informal economy drops from 52% to 15-20% post digitalisation, demonetisation, GST: SBI report The COVID19 pandemic has led to a devastating impact on all the sectors of the economy but the impact has...
Health Alcoholism can be conquered and here’s ‘how’ Bhushan did it Gaon Connection collaborates with the World Health Organization for a social campaign against alcohol abuse. Video and audio stories along...
Reportage Bypolls 2021 : Polling took place for bypolls to 3 Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly seats Lok Sabha bye-elections took place in 2 states, Himachal and Madhya Pradesh and 1 union territory, Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
NEWS ETC Farmer suicides dropped but suicides among agriculture labourers rose in 2020: NCRB While suicide cases have risen among agricultural labourers by 18 per cent in 2020, such deaths have decreased among land-owning...
Reportage NREGA Tracker: Nearly 90 per cent of the allocated NREGA budget for 2021-22 has been used up, with 5 months of the programme still remaining The half-yearly MG-NREGA National tracker launched by PAEG today highlighted that 90 per cent of the allocated budget has been...