21-year-old Rohit Yadav from a small village in Uttar Pradesh overcame straitened circumstances and lack of training equipment to become a national javelin player. He was recently placed tenth in the World Athletics Championships at Oregon in the US, and is warming up to garner some glory at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

A primary school teacher in Jaunpur believes movie-making can bring teachers, students and their parents closer. Along with primary teachers from other schools, and some students and parents, he made a film called Sir Ji that already has 100k views.

From cattle dying after drinking water from the polluted river to an increased incidence of diseases, the daily lives of almost 5,000 rural residents are impacted by the dumping of industrial effluents from Varanasi's agro-park. A ground report.

A new variety of the water spinach called Kashi Manu has been developed by agricultural scientists at the ICAR- Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, which promises an earning of Rs 15 lakh per hectare to the farmers.

The students from economically weaker families not only get free education but also learn to make products such as keychains out of discarded materials, and convert vegetable peels into compost, which fetches an additional income.

Just two farmers remain in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh who continue to cultivate the famous Banarasi paan leaf. Mira Devi is one of them. Gaon Connection caught up with her to know why betel leaf farmers were turning to daily wage works.

Just two farmers remain in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh who continue to cultivate the famous Banarasi paan leaf. Mira Devi is one of them. Gaon Connection caught up with her to know why betel leaf farmers were turning to daily wage works.

An assistant teacher in a government composite school in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, embeds bluetooth in puppets, and uses them to teach her students. A number of children who went only to madrasa now study at the school.