“Comparing countries based on the number of COVID cases, or the testing capability, is unfair” May 2, 2020 The COVID safety Index – calculated considering the recovery rate of patients and the percentage of tests turning negative –...
Lack of planned drainage, natural drainage basins encroached. Result: Increased urban flooding in Guwahati May 2, 2020 An intricate network of rivers and beels (wetlands) forms the natural drainage system of Guwahati city on the banks of...
Ladakh to go fully organic by 2025 May 2, 2020 People have realised that organic farming is the way forward. The government is also taking initiatives which will help people...
On the International Workers’s Day, hundreds of migrant Andhra fish workers still stranded in boats at two harbours in Karnataka May 1, 2020 While over 4,000 migrant fishers from Andhra head back home from Veraval harbour in Gujarat, where they were stranded since...
Gaon Connection gets funding from Google to create India’s first national rural insight platform April 30, 2020 Powered by community journalists, India’s biggest rural media platform to create the country’s first national rural insight platform — an...
Labour Day: Is it time to organise the unorganised sector? April 30, 2020 This year has been the worse for the daily wage earners and labourers across the country because of the coronavirus...
Lockdown woes: Many camels in Rajasthan are succumbing to a contagious skin disease April 30, 2020 Owing to the nationwide lockdown, treatment could not be provided to these camels suffering from the infection. It’s a big...
Lockdown: Students from Bihar, stuck in Kota, are desperate to get back home April 30, 2020 On April 28, the Patna High Court said that all the needs of Bihar students stranded in Kota, including food...
“The private players were selling the corona testing kits at more than double the price to the government” April 29, 2020 The distributors were selling testing kits to the Indian Council of Medical Research for Rs 600 per kit as against...
An ASHA worker in Bhopal tests positive for COVID. This is why it’s dangerous April 29, 2020 This ASHA worker was feeling “perfectly fine” when she was informed she had tested positive for corona. She had to...
“Comparing countries based on the number of COVID cases, or the testing capability, is unfair” May 2, 2020 The COVID safety Index – calculated considering the recovery rate of patients and the percentage of tests turning negative –...
Lack of planned drainage, natural drainage basins encroached. Result: Increased urban flooding in Guwahati May 2, 2020 An intricate network of rivers and beels (wetlands) forms the natural drainage system of Guwahati city on the banks of...
Ladakh to go fully organic by 2025 May 2, 2020 People have realised that organic farming is the way forward. The government is also taking initiatives which will help people...
On the International Workers’s Day, hundreds of migrant Andhra fish workers still stranded in boats at two harbours in Karnataka May 1, 2020 While over 4,000 migrant fishers from Andhra head back home from Veraval harbour in Gujarat, where they were stranded since...
Gaon Connection gets funding from Google to create India’s first national rural insight platform April 30, 2020 Powered by community journalists, India’s biggest rural media platform to create the country’s first national rural insight platform — an...
Labour Day: Is it time to organise the unorganised sector? April 30, 2020 This year has been the worse for the daily wage earners and labourers across the country because of the coronavirus...
Lockdown woes: Many camels in Rajasthan are succumbing to a contagious skin disease April 30, 2020 Owing to the nationwide lockdown, treatment could not be provided to these camels suffering from the infection. It’s a big...
Lockdown: Students from Bihar, stuck in Kota, are desperate to get back home April 30, 2020 On April 28, the Patna High Court said that all the needs of Bihar students stranded in Kota, including food...
“The private players were selling the corona testing kits at more than double the price to the government” April 29, 2020 The distributors were selling testing kits to the Indian Council of Medical Research for Rs 600 per kit as against...
An ASHA worker in Bhopal tests positive for COVID. This is why it’s dangerous April 29, 2020 This ASHA worker was feeling “perfectly fine” when she was informed she had tested positive for corona. She had to...