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Sep 23, 2024 | 
policycircle.org | Dhruv Singh |Jyoti Thakur
Household illiteracy in India: The fight against illiteracy has long been a priority for policymakers in India. Education, often hailed as the cornerstone of progress and empowerment, remains central to India’s vision of inclusive growth and development. However, despite significant strides, the battle against illiteracy continues to pose formidable challenges. India’s quest for inclusive development is overshadowed by persistent pockets of illiteracy.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Jyoti Thakur
In 1994, Manvati Nag, an Indigenous woman from Bijapur district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, married and relocated to the village of Halbaras in forested Dantewada district in the east. Though the move was only about 80 kilometres, the life of Nag, then only 19, changed drastically. Never having fallen seriously ill in her parents’ home, she contracted malaria repeatedly in her new home: “once every year or two”, she estimates.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
eco-business.com | Jyoti Thakur
An increase in malaria cases is particularly concerning for pregnant women, who are three times more likely to develop severe diseases compared to non-pregnant women. Babies born of malaria-infected women are more than twice as likely to be underweight at birth. Details on malaria-specific causes are scarce, but India’s forested areas have the highest all-cause maternal mortality rates during and after pregnancy.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
dialogue.earth | Jyoti Thakur
In 1994, Manvati Nag, an Indigenous woman from Bijapur district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, married and relocated to the village of Halbaras in forested Dantewada district in the east. Though the move was only about 80 kilometres, the life of Nag, then only 19, changed drastically. Never having fallen seriously ill in her parents’ home, she contracted malaria repeatedly in her new home: “once every year or two”, she estimates. What is malaria?
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jyoti Thakur
2 hours agoAdnan Sami's recent exchange with a Pakistani fan is going viral on social media. The singer acquired his Indian citizenship back in 2016 and has been vocal about his choice to change his citizenship from Pakistan and had said that he did it for the love he has towards India. Recently the singer …
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
bluedotliving.com | Jyoti Thakur
On a scorching June afternoon in Patel Nagar, New Delhi, a mentally challenged patient in his 20s, living in a tiny, tin-roofed room in a two-story building, lost consciousness. His brother, who lived downstairs with his wife, heard the fall and immediately rushed Patel to the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML), one of the Indian capital’s largest public hospitals. “He was burning.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Jyoti Thakur
On a sweltering June morning, Sumit Sisa felt extremely cold. His head hurt, and he had spiked a fever. After a day of struggling with fever, muscle aches and no relief Sisa, 25, who lives with his wife and a toddler in a thatch and clay tile hut in Bonda Hills in the Khairput block, roughly 80 km from Odisha’s southernmost Malkangiri district, visited the nearest primary health centre in Mudulipada, a kilometre away from his home, alone.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Hanan Zaffar |Jyoti Thakur
India’s ambitious goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2070 and fully transition to clean energy has led to the installation of 84.28 GW of solar plants across the country, with an additional 55.60 GW currently under construction. Globally, India ranks third in energy consumption, with coal accounting for more than half of its total energy generation. The country also relies heavily on imports to meet its energy demands, importing 90 per cent of its oil and 80 per cent of its industrial coal.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Jyoti Thakur
In Gumla district, where about 69% of the population is Adivasi, solar mini-grids light up around 44 villages. In Jharkhand, India’s highest coal-producing state, many villages continue to live in darkness due to frequent power outages or lack of electricity altogether, disrupting daily life and work. However, one district is pioneering change with solar-powered electricity. In Gumla district, where about 69% of the population is Adivasi, solar mini-grids light up around 44 villages.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
thecitizen.in | Jyoti Thakur |Hanan Zaffar |HANAN ZAFFARLoading..
In a stunning political upset, Congressman Kishori Lal Sharma, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party’s Union Minister Smriti Irani in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. His victory marks a historic recapture of Amethi, a traditional Congress bastion that had slipped from the party's grasp in 2019 when Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi. This seat, emblematic of the Gandhi family's political legacy, holds immense symbolic and strategic importance for the Congress party.
