NEWS ETC ‘What is our fault?’ — With schools shut and no internet access, rural students worry about the board exams Board examinations are a month away and schools are shut due to the rising threat of the Omicron variant of...
NEWS ETC Massive floods in October catch villagers in UP’s Barabanki by surprise People living along the Sarayu river in Uttar Pradesh are used to the annual cycle of floods during the monsoon...
Reportage Plummeting prices of potatoes play havoc for farmers in Uttar Pradesh Last year, due to a series of COVID lockdowns, prices of potato had touched up to Rs 43 per kilogram,...
Reportage Keedi Ram owned 12 bigha of land. But floods in the Ghaghra river have made him landless. At least 644 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh are facing floods with about 300 villages completely marooned. Ghaghra...
Reportage “I may be a jhola chaap, but I help villagers in their times of distress” As the second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic hit the villages in the country, it also exposed the woeful...
Positive Stories|Reportage Health official in UP’s Barabanki has been a glimmer of hope amidst tragedies of COVID19 pandemic KK Gupta, a senior filaria inspector, has gone out of his way to help people in need. In the course...
Reportage Barabanki district hospital in UP gets a COVID ward On May 6, Gaon Connection reported on the absence and the dysfunctional condition of ventilators in some of the district...
Reportage UP govt launches a special screening drive across 97,409 villages to check COVID spread On the first day of the campaign in Uttar Pradesh’s villages, the ASHA workers who visited the households to look...
Reportage From pinstripes to growing coffee bean Nine years into doing what he wished to do, banking professional Madeira Thimmaiah’s success as a coffee farmer can motivate...
Positive Stories|Reportage Seeds of progress: A retired Army colonel cultivates chia seeds in Uttar Pradesh Harishchandra Singh has successfully cultivated chia seeds, considered a superfood, on his farm at Barabanki, in Uttar Pradesh. PM Narendra...
