Kachchh: In the semi-arid landscape of Kachchh in Gujarat, farmers have traditionally practised Ram-Mol, or multi-cropping, to sustain through the harshest times. Kachchh is characterised by harsh ...

Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the laborious system is seeing... Farmers say they don’t earn enough from farming ...

Canning, West Bengal: When 23-year-old Rituri, who uses only her first name, got a job offer from her village dance teacher, she believed it would be the way out of poverty for her family. A series of ...

A rising sea, frequent natural disasters, and climate change have worsened prospects for farmers and fishermen, while destroying homes and businesses ...

Chor Meghna, an Indian hamlet on the Bangladesh border in West Bengal, lies outside the wire fence that separates the two countries. Residents need to ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Seventeen people in Kachchh, who developed fever and respiratory distress towards the end of August 2024, died in quick succession between September 3 and 9, prompting ...

When an undiagnosed illness leads to an outbreak, there is a tendency to call it a ‘mystery disease’. Experts say this terminology could lead to fear ...

The human body uses sweat for thermoregulation, but with high humidity, the sweat cannot evaporate, increasing heat stress ...