Reportage Half of farm households in rural India in debt; every fifth such household took loan from private moneylender As per the latest NSO survey, ‘Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land Holdings of Households in Rural India, 2019’,...
Reportage With vaccine hesitancy fading amongst villagers, rural Uttar Pradesh records spike in COVID19 vaccinations Almost two months back, vaccine hesitancy in rural Uttar Pradesh was regularly contributing to news headlines. But the situation on...
Reportage Explained: COVID19 ‘Mu’ variant expected to be vaccine resistant but not as infectious as Delta — what we know so far Although the WHO has classified the Mu variant as a variant of interest, which is a level below the most...
Reportage UP govt declares 22 wards in Mathura as ‘pilgrimage sites’ — sale of meat and liquor banned Ten days after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced a ban on the sales of meat and liquor in the holy...
Reportage Power generation surplus, proposed 27 GW of thermal power plants superfluous to India’s energy need: Report An analysis by two advocacy groups reveals that hinging on the coal-powered thermal power plants is detrimental to not only...
Reportage Organisations can check COVID19 vaccination status of their employees through CoWIN’s new feature The central government has launched a new feature which will enable organisations to know about the vaccination status of their...
Reportage Explained: How IIT-Bombay’s ‘WebFRIS’ is expected to mitigate destruction caused by floods Researchers from IIT-Bombay have come up with an easy to use web portal that can potentially help in informed policy...
Reportage Explained: What is the D2 variant of dengue that has wreaked havoc in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad Known to be deadlier than all other strains of dengue, the D2 or DENV 2 virus has been found to...
Reportage Locked out during pandemic: Half of India’s rural kids unable to read more than a few words, finds a survey School closures in India have led to a drop in learning and reading abilities of kids compared to the pre-pandemic...
Reportage Breastfeeding mothers, infants show no serious side-effects from Pfizer, Moderna COVID19 vaccine: Study A recent study shows that lactating women vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines show no serious side effects, indicating both...
