Covering a pandemic in the age of disinformation and media control
Challenges in gathering and verifying information dominated the discussion in a webinar held to reflect on the difficulties journalists face in a world...
Wheat-producing states in trouble amid COVID-19 pandemic
Chandigarh: As India grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, the top three wheat-producing states are also battling with labourer shortage and other issues. While...
April 16, 2020
Right to Privacy at stake amid COVID-19 crisis
Bengaluru, Karnataka: On January 30, India reported its first COVID-19 case. In the next two months, the cases kept increasing. Over a period...
Majority in rural India have no savings to fall back on
Bengaluru: Close to 70% respondents (i.e. 438 pf 633 people) in rural India reported that they do not have any kind of savings...
Covid-19 worsens plight of cotton farmers in Marathwada
Pune, Maharashtra: For the past 20 days, Kuldeep Karpe, a farmer from Beed district in Maharashtra, has been waiting his turn at the...
Surat diamond industry fears 2nd recession in a decade
Surat: “I am stuck in this phase of life where I cannot go ahead or go back. The situation has been the same...
Lockdown in Kashmir costing chefs a year’s worth pay
Jammu: “Due to [the] prevailing situation in Kashmir, the invitation for [the] marriage ceremony of my nephews Jan Mohammad Sofi and Wasim Ahmad...
August 20, 2019
Erosion of Doon Valley’s pride, Basmati rice
DEHRADUN, Uttarakhand: Rice trader Ummed Bora, a resident of Dudhli Ghat in Dehradun, has just started sowing of seeds for the Kasturi rice crop,...
Insects, bees thrive during lockdown, increase pollination
Pune, Maharashtra: The lockdown to prevent the spread of global pandemic COVID-19 has brought many benefits to...
Lockdown after lockdown in Kashmir aggravates mental health of many
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir: “Death must be more peaceful than living in Kashmir under [continuous] lockdowns,” Mohammad Zain,...
Frying scorpions alive for oil to cure impotency
Barmer, Rajasthan: While a sting from the poisonous tail of a scorpion is enough to knock the...
October 10, 2019
How flood in Assam is forcing people to depend on rafts
Guwahati: “I was fast asleep when I heard my husband shout that there was water everywhere. By...
Erosion of Doon Valley’s pride, Basmati rice
DEHRADUN, Uttarakhand: Rice trader Ummed Bora, a resident of Dudhli Ghat in Dehradun, has just started sowing of...
Pesticides overkill in Punjab killing friendly insects that control pest attacks
AMRITSAR, Punjab: Amrik Singh, 46, a Bathinda-based farmer, was in despair after the entire cotton crop on...
August 12, 2019
Medicinal plants in Kashmir on verge of extinction
Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir: From May to August every year, Abdul Rahim, a resident of Tangmarg in...
July 25, 2019
Monks on a mission against depleting water sources in Ladakh
Leh: While one might think the role of monks is restricted to the metaphysical needs of humanity...
July 17, 2019
Climate change stripping Ladakh of its very identity
Leh: Blame global warming, the times they are a-changin'. And Ladakh is one of those places where...
July 16, 2019
Mute victims of heatwave: Animals dying of starvation in MP
Satna, Madhya Pradesh: Shripal Mawasi, a resident of Putrichuwa village in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district, has to help...
July 5, 2019
Video campaigns making rural women embrace kitchen gardens
Tribal students facing the brunt of system’s negligence
81% children in Delhi slums have no toilets: Survey
August 5, 2019
J&K Guv proposes opening Kargil war hotspots for trekking
August 1, 2019
Final-year engg student from Bastar makes 3D printer
July 25, 2019
Akhand Bharat banners spring up near Pak Parliament
Islamabad: Hundreds of flex banners bearing an Indian parliamentarian’s remark about acquiring Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Balochistan appeared near Pakistani Parliament a day after...
August 7, 2019
Fears of fresh insurgency in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal: On July 10, a policeman was killed in the eastern district of Bhojpur, 180 kilometres from Kathmandu, when police personnel and members...
July 25, 2019
Violation of Vienna Convention, misuse of military courts, ICJ asks Pak to suspend Jadhav death sentence
In what can be termed as a virtual victory for India in the long-pending case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the International Court of Justice...
July 18, 2019
Indian efforts paid off, Jadhav’s death sentence put off, ICJ slams Pak for breaching Vienna Convention
By Saurabh Sharma and Ankush Bandyopadhyay In what comes as a major diplomatic win for India, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on...
July 17, 2019