The Golden Hour campaign: Street play organised to raise awareness about snake bites

As part of its awareness campaign to inform rural residents about the measures needed to prevent deaths due to snake...

Tamarind cakes aid incomes of tribal women in Odisha’s Rayagada

Tribal residents in Odisha’s Rayagada are able to supplement their livelihoods by producing tasty and marketable cakes from using tamarind...

Rural women add spice to their livelihoods

A year ago, a group of rural women in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, got together as a self-help group and started...

Watermelon cultivation and a women farmers’ company script success in Bankura, West Bengal

Traditionally, small and marginal farmers in Bankura district, West Bengal, have cultivated paddy and earned meagre returns. But the introduction...

Heart Under Attack: A new study links exposure to air pollutants to cardiovascular diseases

A recent study undertaken in West Bengal by Climate Trends and IIT Delhi shows a higher prevalence of upper and...

Crop diversification and raising farmers’ incomes through medicinal and aromatic plants

From stray cattle, pest attacks, to rising incidence of heatwaves, farmers are increasingly facing risks in the agriculture sector. To...

Smartphone addiction leading to health disorders in rural India

Mobile phone addiction among children is becoming common in the rural parts of the country where users of the internet...

‘Just 4 states have funds left to provide employment under MGNREGA in current fiscal’

A group of activists have highlighted that only Maharashtra, Odisha, Goa and Mizoram have positive net balances to provide employment...

Their farmland turned barren due to polluting effluent, villagers in UP’s Mirzapur to boycott polls

Phase one of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh gets underway. But in Jagapatti village of Mirzapur, the inhabitants say...

Not only COVID-19 but its medical waste also threatening human health

As the health sector expedites its response to COVID-19 pandemic, tonnes of medical waste including gloves, medical masks, testing kits,...