‘Meri Pyaari Zindagi’ is a collaborative effort between Gaon Connection and the World Health Organization which throws the spotlight on alcoholism. In the concluding segment healthcare workers, and psychiatrists speak on de addiction and what it takes for the addict to steer clear of alcohol hereafter.

Gharial is a long beaked crocodilian living exclusively on fish. It is found in the Himalayan fed river systems with its southernmost distribution in the river Mahanadi and its tributaries. It is not a danger to human beings but salt-water crocodiles are man eaters and many gullible persons wrongly equate gharials with salt-water crocodiles as a result of which, the lives of the gharials are now in danger.

As Neeraj Chopra wins the gold in Javelin throw at the World Athletics Championships 2023, a look at who his trainers and mentors were.

Scientists working with Bareilly-based Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) have long been engaged in researches upon native and hybrid cows to prove that the native cows adapt easily to every weather change

His is a story of dream, hope, grit, sacrifice and triumph. The hardships that he faced in accessing education in his childhood were so deeply etched in his psyche that Dr Shiv Balak Misra, a noted geologist, gave up his comfortable job in Canada and returned to his village in Uttar Pradesh to set up a school that has been providing education to rural children for the past 50 years.

Providing a green premium to farmers and exploring other incentive-based mechanisms will help bridge the gap between chemical and nature-based farming. Consumer perception increasingly favours chemical-free farming, and good marketing helps farmers get a better return on organic produce.

In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, said the mother earth was being destroyed due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Post Green Revolution, to maximize the production of farms, tons of chemical fertilizers and pesticides were sprayed, which affected the quality of food, weather, biological diversity and disturbed the PH balance in the soil. The fertile land is now devoid of any nutrients. Due to use of heavy fertilizers, production level has gone down

Khasti Devi Koranga braved several challenges as a woman farmer, but persisted, and mobilised thousands of women farmers in Kapkot block of Bageshwar to adopt the System of Crop Intensification, a technique of increased farm output with minimal input. She shares her remarkable journey with Gaon Connection.

Despite no salaries for four years, teachers of the Abhayaran Sikshan Samiti Higher Secondary School in Mungeli district in Chhattisgarh, have stayed on. They are awaiting a government grant, which will help the school stay afloat and continue to impart education to Gond and Baiga tribal children.

Indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, accompanied by the reduced use of green manure, has left the agricultural soil health poorer. The issue is so serious that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, requested farmers to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides