NEWS ETC Dalit sanitation worker died of heart attack, says Agra police; family members allege “police brutality” The state government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the family of deceased Arun Valmiki, and five...
NEWS ETC ‘It is poison, not water, that comes out of the handpumps’ Of the total 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh, 63 districts have fluoride above the permissible limit and 25 districts are...
Reportage At deserted COVID vaccination camps, hapless ASHAs fail to convince hesitant villagers to get the jab The government is organising free vaccination camps in rural India. ASHAs and ANMs are going house to house to convince...
Reportage No peace yet for the dead in Unnao Despite a ban by the Uttar Pradesh government on indiscriminate burials being carried out on the banks of the Ganges,...
Reportage Married at 11, widowed at 26. Funeral rites organiser at the Ganga ghat for 20 years Sushma Devi courageously works in a traditionally male-dominated bastion to supervise the last rites on the banks of the Ganges...
Reportage Graves by the Ganga: a surge of COVID deaths and moneyless families burying, not cremating their kin The Ganga ghat at Baksar in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, has seen an unprecedented rush as dead bodies await their turn...
Reportage 16 health officials of PHCs and CHCs in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh retract resignation after assurance from CMO In negotiation talks with the Unnao CMO, the officials were assured that their grievances would be addressed. Following this, the...
Reportage Nourishing change: In Unnao, UP, an initiative to prevent stubble burning The ‘Parali Do Khaad Lo’ (manure for crop residue) initiative offers farmers one trolley of manure from shelters for stray...
