‘Merchant of Venice’ in UP? Couple who lent money from a moneylender for son’s treatment now landless July 28, 2020 India may have succeeded in keeping many social evils and exploitative practices at bay, but moneylenders in rural India looting...
It is time we stop demonising riverine floods during monsoon as a calamity. Here is why July 22, 2020 Human beings are conditioned to consider riverine floods a threat to their existence rather than as a geomorphological process necessary...
After three decades, apple scab disease intensifies in Himachal’s orchards July 22, 2020 As India is battling the COVID19 crisis, locust attacks in some states and floods in a few other, farmers of...
Hapless villagers in UP’s Barabanki barely survive in tents, waiting for govt’s helping hand July 20, 2020 Gaon Connection team visited the flood-affected villages of Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district and found village roads, and houses there, submerged.
Gutting stories of tiger widows, women who lost their husbands to Bengal tigers in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans July 20, 2020 Over 1,000 women in villages along the southwest coast of Bangladesh, adjoining the Sundarbans mangrove forest, are ostracised because their...
MP police brutality on Dalit couple: Will there be action against the real culprit? July 18, 2020 Following outrage over the viral video showing MP Police thrashing Dalit farmers, government acted against Guna collector and SP. But,...
‘A river is as healthy as its sickest tributary’ July 17, 2020 A journey along the river Hindon, the first of the large tributaries of the Yamuna, lead to a unique mound...
Monsoon in Bihar is synonymous with floods. But, villages along the India-Nepal border in north Bihar face up to 66 flash floods a year July 16, 2020 There are at least 72 known transboundary rivers that flow into north Bihar from Nepal. These rivers, many of them...
Muzaffarnagar Ashram: Head priest, accomplice jailed for sexually abusing minor boys July 14, 2020 Children brought to a mutt in Uttar Pradesh from Mizoram and Tripura on the pretext of providing them gurukul education...
Despite forecast warnings and mobile apps, 154 dead in 3 weeks due to lightning strikes in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand July 14, 2020 In spite of lightning sensors, alerts through mobile apps, over 2,500 people die annually due to lightning strikes in the...
‘Merchant of Venice’ in UP? Couple who lent money from a moneylender for son’s treatment now landless July 28, 2020 India may have succeeded in keeping many social evils and exploitative practices at bay, but moneylenders in rural India looting...
It is time we stop demonising riverine floods during monsoon as a calamity. Here is why July 22, 2020 Human beings are conditioned to consider riverine floods a threat to their existence rather than as a geomorphological process necessary...
After three decades, apple scab disease intensifies in Himachal’s orchards July 22, 2020 As India is battling the COVID19 crisis, locust attacks in some states and floods in a few other, farmers of...
Hapless villagers in UP’s Barabanki barely survive in tents, waiting for govt’s helping hand July 20, 2020 Gaon Connection team visited the flood-affected villages of Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district and found village roads, and houses there, submerged.
Gutting stories of tiger widows, women who lost their husbands to Bengal tigers in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans July 20, 2020 Over 1,000 women in villages along the southwest coast of Bangladesh, adjoining the Sundarbans mangrove forest, are ostracised because their...
MP police brutality on Dalit couple: Will there be action against the real culprit? July 18, 2020 Following outrage over the viral video showing MP Police thrashing Dalit farmers, government acted against Guna collector and SP. But,...
‘A river is as healthy as its sickest tributary’ July 17, 2020 A journey along the river Hindon, the first of the large tributaries of the Yamuna, lead to a unique mound...
Monsoon in Bihar is synonymous with floods. But, villages along the India-Nepal border in north Bihar face up to 66 flash floods a year July 16, 2020 There are at least 72 known transboundary rivers that flow into north Bihar from Nepal. These rivers, many of them...
Muzaffarnagar Ashram: Head priest, accomplice jailed for sexually abusing minor boys July 14, 2020 Children brought to a mutt in Uttar Pradesh from Mizoram and Tripura on the pretext of providing them gurukul education...
Despite forecast warnings and mobile apps, 154 dead in 3 weeks due to lightning strikes in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand July 14, 2020 In spite of lightning sensors, alerts through mobile apps, over 2,500 people die annually due to lightning strikes in the...
