For four years now, the ‘Targeted Interventions Under National AIDS Control Programme’ is suspended in Asansol, West Bengal, because of which mandatory screening for HIV and free condom distribution to sex workers have stopped. This has put a spanner in the works for India’s fight against AIDS.

For four years now, the ‘Targeted Interventions Under National AIDS Control Programme’ is suspended in Asansol, West Bengal, because of which mandatory screening for HIV and free condom distribution to sex workers have stopped. This has put a spanner in the works for India’s fight against AIDS.

Till June end, at least 1.3 million Bengali migrant labourers returned to the state due to the lockdown in view of COVID-19 pandemic. All the returnee migrants Gaon Connection spoke to in West Bengal’s Birbhum district are struggling to find work. Their only hope is the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, but the work is hard to come by.

Till June end, at least 1.3 million Bengali migrant labourers returned to the state due to the lockdown in view of COVID-19 pandemic. All the returnee migrants Gaon Connection spoke to in West Bengal’s Birbhum district are struggling to find work. Their only hope is the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, but the work is hard to come by.

Till June end, at least 1.3 million Bengali migrant labourers returned to the state due to the lockdown in view of COVID-19 pandemic. All the returnee migrants Gaon Connection spoke to in West Bengal’s Birbhum district are struggling to find work. Their only hope is the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, but the work is hard to come by.

Till June end, at least 1.3 million Bengali migrant labourers returned to the state due to the lockdown in view of COVID-19 pandemic. All the returnee migrants Gaon Connection spoke to in West Bengal’s Birbhum district are struggling to find work. Their only hope is the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, but the work is hard to come by.

A land subsidence accident in Jambad open-cast mining pit of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, has killed one woman. Local people demand rehabilitation and compensation.

A land subsidence accident in Jambad open-cast mining pit of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, has killed one woman. Local people demand rehabilitation and compensation.

A land subsidence accident in Jambad open-cast mining pit of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, has killed one woman. Local people demand rehabilitation and compensation.

A land subsidence accident in Jambad open-cast mining pit of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, has killed one woman. Local people demand rehabilitation and compensation.

Farmers in large parts of West Bengal grow three paddy crops a year — boro (summer), aus (autumn) and aman (winter). Due to the lockdown, they suffered losses in the boro paddy season. Now marginal farmers and sharecroppers have no money to undertaken aman paddy this year

Farmers in large parts of West Bengal grow three paddy crops a year — boro (summer), aus (autumn) and aman (winter). Due to the lockdown, they suffered losses in the boro paddy season. Now marginal farmers and sharecroppers have no money to undertaken aman paddy this year

Farmers in large parts of West Bengal grow three paddy crops a year — boro (summer), aus (autumn) and aman (winter). Due to the lockdown, they suffered losses in the boro paddy season. Now marginal farmers and sharecroppers have no money to undertaken aman paddy this year

Farmers in large parts of West Bengal grow three paddy crops a year — boro (summer), aus (autumn) and aman (winter). Due to the lockdown, they suffered losses in the boro paddy season. Now marginal farmers and sharecroppers have no money to undertaken aman paddy this year

Of the total 19 wells of Oil India Limited in the Baghjan area in the Tinsukia district of Assam, well number 5 started leaking gas on May 27. Local organisations submitted memorandums to the authorities to urgently tackle the situation. The company claimed it was “taking all adequate safety measures”. But, on June 9, the well caught fire and the inferno is still on

Of the total 19 wells of Oil India Limited in the Baghjan area in the Tinsukia district of Assam, well number 5 started leaking gas on May 27. Local organisations submitted memorandums to the authorities to urgently tackle the situation. The company claimed it was “taking all adequate safety measures”. But, on June 9, the well caught fire and the inferno is still on

Of the total 19 wells of Oil India Limited in the Baghjan area in the Tinsukia district of Assam, well number 5 started leaking gas on May 27. Local organisations submitted memorandums to the authorities to urgently tackle the situation. The company claimed it was “taking all adequate safety measures”. But, on June 9, the well caught fire and the inferno is still on

Of the total 19 wells of Oil India Limited in the Baghjan area in the Tinsukia district of Assam, well number 5 started leaking gas on May 27. Local organisations submitted memorandums to the authorities to urgently tackle the situation. The company claimed it was “taking all adequate safety measures”. But, on June 9, the well caught fire and the inferno is still on

Cyclone Amphan made landfall on May 20 and battered the islands in the Sundarbans. Gaon Connection travelled to the cyclone-affected islands. A ground report

Cyclone Amphan made landfall on May 20 and battered the islands in the Sundarbans. Gaon Connection travelled to the cyclone-affected islands. A ground report