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Nasir Yousufi

Jammu and Kashmīr, New Delhi, Srinagar

Independent Journalist at Freelance

@freelancer- Bylines @ Villagesquare,The Hindu, Rural 21,Gavi, fpk,GK/cover Environment, Culture,Health, life style & livlihood.

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  • Jan 27, 2025 | gavi.org | Nasir Yousufi

    By the time the roosters crow for sun-up on a cold December day in Keran, a village perched on the northern frontier of India in the Himalayas, Mumtaz Ali Khan, aged 49, is already on his way back from his morning wash at a nearby water-spring. He has a busy day ahead. Khan, a health worker, is also the caretaker of an extremely important fridge.

  • Jul 12, 2024 | gavi.org | Nasir Yousufi

    As the group of drivers were about to finish their midday meal under a thatch shade by a taxi stand in Ernakulam on a scorching day, one of them started vomiting. He broke out in severe sweating, and complained of a headache. As his condition deteriorated, he was taken to nearby health centre. By the time his primary test results were out in the evening, he had been shifted to the city’s main public hospital.

  • Mar 28, 2024 | gavi.org | Poonam Pandey |Nasir Yousufi

    On the warm Friday afternoon of 2 February, 13-year-old Anjali Jain overheard a group of students from a senior class at school discussing the sudden death, from cervical cancer, of actress and internet star Poonam Pandey. Anjali was startled. It was just a few months ago that she had begun following the 32-year-old actress on Instagram, where now she saw a new post had landed: a black square of mourning, with a few lines of white text announcing the sad news. "This morning is a tough one for us.

  • Mar 6, 2024 | gavi.org | Nasir Yousufi

    In the dead of night, an old woman knocks at the door of a village health worker and asks for a paracetamol for her pregnant daughter. Sensing – somehow – a greater risk than meets the eye, the health worker rushes to attend the patient. She checks the woman's blood pressure, and immediately sends a live location marker to the ambulance service. In less than an hour both the patient and the accompanying health worker are arriving at the district hospital.

  • Dec 21, 2023 | villagesquare.in | Shveta Jadhav |Nasir Yousufi

    On the southern edge of the Indian subcontinent, where the Western Ghats meet the Eastern Ghats in Tamil Nadu, a delicate phenomenon unfolds twice every year — butterfly migration. Beyond the known migrations of birds and fishes, this lesser-known journey of butterflies weaves a captivating narrative. Of the 250 migratory butterfly species worldwide, around 60 are found in India.

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30 Jan 25

RT @gavi: Meet Mumtaz Ali Khan, the health worker responsible for a new solar-powered refrigerator that has become a lifesaver for children…

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30 Jan 25

RT @gavi: A new solar-powered fridge is transforming immunisation services and saving lives in the remote communities of mountainous northe…

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16 Jul 24

RT @gavi: Clean water scarcity and contaminated food are causing a hepatitis A outbreak in the southern Indian state of #Kerala. Discover w…