The huge mismatch between the Chief Minister's stated accounts and the dozens of full pages of 'news' will surely re-stoke the debate over what has now come to be called 'paid news,' writes P Sainath.

The same exclusive report, with different bylines, in three rival dailies. Swathes of advertising dolled up as news stories. Is 'paid news' getting institutionalised, asks P Sainath.

Well-known PR firms, professional designers, and ad agencies served the richer parties and candidates. They made up 'news' items in the standard fonts and sizes of the desired newspapers and even 'customised' the items to make them seem exclusive in different publications. P Sainath reports.

The Acorn Foundation India Trust aims to organise ragpickers and train them in scientific methods of waste handling, segregation and recycling, bringing a measure of respect to their work. Freny Manecksha reports.

In Pune, bureaucratic meddling and lack of vision are threatening a simple, cost-effective eco-technology which treats heavily polluted water and turns messed-up water bodies into clean ones, reports Surekha Sule.

If you hire consultants who are not familiar with the local terrain, they are apt to provide solutions which do not conform with the situation on the ground. Mumbai's latest self-vision exercise bears this out, writes Darryl D'Monte.

Reuters Market Light, a professional content service, has been changing the way Vidarbha farmers make decisions on sowing, selling farm produce, and other important matters and increase their profits. Jaideep Hardikar reports.

In the 1960s, Maharashtra ended famine forever by passing an Act that deleted the word 'famine' from all laws of the State. It's an idea that is still in fashion, writes P Sainath.

Small rain-fed farms are crucial to agriculture turning around. Will India tackle this structural problem? Jaideep Hardikar has more.

Tamasha, a traditional dance form in Maharashtra for ages, is now dying. Audiences have new preferences, fashioned more by Bollywood than tradition. Ramesh Menon reports.

As studies continue to highlight the potential health hazards posed by cell phones, Mumbai citizens are seen demanding stricter regulation and removal of cell phone towers from sensitive areas, but authorities respond with half-baked measures. Darryl D'Monte reports.

Jackfruit from the farm of Maharashtra's Prakash Sawanth yielded fruit in a record two years, an unheard of agricultural phenomenon in the country. Shrikrishna D reports on the many specialities of the new variety.

While state atrocities against Pardhi communities show few signs of abatement, a small school in Mahadev Basti in Usmanabad, Maharashtra brings a ray of hope. Shirish Khare reports.

The plan to erect 12 dams in order to meet the water requirements of cities in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region is not only objectionable from an environmental perspective, but also undermines the priorities laid out by the 12th Five Year Plan. Shripad Dharmadhikary reports.

Even before the first line of the much-anticipated Mumbai Metro becomes functional, a number of issues have cropped up, most notably one over the pricing of tickets. Darryl D’Monte tracks the arguments, with comparisons to metro rail elsewhere.

The report of the Kelkar Committee on balanced development in Maharashtra has important recommendations. But will it all come to nought because of its failure to avoid some conventional pitfalls? Shripad Dharmadhikary explores.

The Mumbai municipal authorities have delivered a draft 20-year development plan for the city, but implementation of many of the proposals therein could well deliver the final blow to a city already gasping for breath, says Darryl D’Monte.

Sachin Tendulkar’s letter to the Maharashtra CM Fadnavis, urging him to reduce toll posts in the state, may just encourage the state further to execute its plan of exempting private cars and SUVs from such charges. Darryl D’Monte argues why that is entirely unjustifiable.

Fishing villages in Mumbai are probably more threatened than those in other cities, due to the dizzy densification of the country’s commercial capital, writes Darryl D’Monte.

Mumbai’s port land should be redeveloped to benefit, among others, the dock workers and slum dwellers, says a recently released report by city based NGOs Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) and Hamara Shehar Vikas Niyojan Abhiyaan. Darryl D’Monte analyses the report.

If electrification drives remain focused only on village electrification, connections and lighting, 'Gaaon Ka Vikaas Garv Ke Saath' will remain just rhetoric. Anjali Sharma, Ann Josey, and Sreekumar N report.

The recently released CAG audit report on Maharashtra has heavily criticized the time and cost overruns in Gosikhurd irrigation project in Vidarbha. Himanshu Upadhyaya analyses the report to list the shortcomings of the project.

Rather than rouse themselves to respond when floods strike, state governments seize the opportunity to play financial games with the Centre, says Dinesh Mishra.

Although most members of the Mahila Shanti Sena are illiterate labourers, they are very aware of the strength of thier force, and the importance of their role in society. Alka Arya reports on a women's movement that is tackling complex social and economic questions with a deep conviction for peace.

For seven years women and children of the rural districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been deprived of essential health services so that the polio eradication campaign could go on. On World Health Day, Abhijit Das points out that this need not be.

In a number of dalit settlements in Gaya, Bihar, there are school structures but no teachers. In some places, where there are both, as in Parariya village, the dominant Yadavs make intrusive and insulting remarks that do not provide a facilitating environment. Rahul Ramagundam reports.

An indifferent political system, trading of charges between state and central governments, and the apathy of the Water Resources Department have together created and compounded the misery of floods in Bihar. When floods struck this year, all the measures collapsed like a house of cards, which again is not a new phenomenon, writes Dinesh Kumar Mishra.

People from several villages in Bihar are opposing the construction of a pair of embankments on the Bagmati river and have stopped work on one of them. Less visible behind their cries is a state administration that seems to be set on continuing a history of trapping villages in flood waters, reports Dinesh Mishra.

Since 1963, there have been repeated breaches in the Kosi's embankments, causing tremendous loss and tragedy. Yet, Bihar's governments have made little headway and argue each year as if the problems were new, says Dinesh Kumar Mishra.

When Neelam Devi and her children stepped into their courtyard, the sight that greeted them was a painful reminder of the Kosi river calamity that had forced them to leave in the first place. Manisha Prakash reports.

A public hearing on NREGA in a remote village in Bihar created a confrontation between a leader accused of corruption and the workers who exposed him. Rajesh Veeraraghavan was there and he recorded this story.

Citizens of other states also could take hope from the results in Bihar, and demand that their politicians too provide enduring social benefits rather than simply stoking prejudice, writes Ramachandra Guha.

Mritunjay Tiwary has brought eyesight to tens of thousands of people through his eye hospital in rural Bihar. But his vision of development extends much farther. Ruchi Choudhary reports.

It has been exactly a month since 23 tender lives were lost as children from a school in Gandaman village of Bihar died due to poisoning of the mid-day meals served at school. Anoo Bhuyan shares poignant shots from the village, capturing the sadness and sombre mood that prevails after the tragedy.

Initiatives under the ‘My Space My unManifesto’ campaign to bring about a political reawakening and engagement among Dalit youth have led to a new-found consciousness and perspective among them. Manisha Prakash reports.

The Centre gears up to take national control of the Kosi and Gandak and turn them into commercial waterways. Shripad Dharmadhikary and the Manthan team report on findings from a recent visit to the region.

Left to fend for themselves while their men are away looking for work elsewhere, poor women find themselves trapped between the quackery of the limited medical attention they can access and the social binds of their families. Puja Awasthi reports.

आइए जानते हैं कि कोरोना वायरस को लेकर फैले मिथ की वास्तविकता आखिर क्या है...

कटरीना के फिटनेस को लेकर बात करें तो वह अक्सर वर्कआउट करती नजर आती हैं. वह वॉटर योगा से लेकर पिलाटेस तक करती हैं.

यूनिसेफ इंडिया ने इन दिनों ऑनलाइन कैम्पेन के जरिए बच्चों को कोरोना वायरस के बारे में जागरूक करने की जिम्मेदारी उठाई है. उन्होंने कुछ ऐसे टिप्स बताएं हैं जिनके जरिए आप अपने बच्चों से इस खतरनाक और जानलेवा वायरस के बारे में बात कर सकते हैं.

कुछ लोग ऐसा सोच रहे हैं कि काश 21 दिनों के जिम खुले होते तो वो अपने पेट की चर्बी को कम कर पाते. जिम न खुले हो तो क्या आप अपने लिविंग रूम में रखे सोफे को अपना जिम बना सकते हैं और पेट के हिस्से के फैट को बॉय-बॉय बोल सकते हैं.

अगर काम पर बैठने से पहले आप एक खास ड्रिंक पीएंगे तो यह आपको फ्रेश फील कराएगी और आपका काम करने में मन भी लगेगा.

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इस खास मास्क के बारे में जानकारी देते हुए एशले ने बताया कि फेसबुक पर लोग घर पर ही मास्क बनाने के कई प्रकार के तरीके शेयर कर रहे थे. ऐसे में उनको ख्याल आया कि सर्जिकल मास्क पहनने से उन लोगों का क्या होगा जिन्हें सुनाई नहीं देता.

जब आप एक निश्चित तरीके से कपड़े पहनते हैं, खासकर प्रोफेशनल कपड़े तो ये आपको ऑफिस की तरह फील करने में मदद करते हैं. ये आपके दिमाग को संकेत देते हैं कि आप अब ऑफिस मोड में हैं.

जरूरत से ज्यादा मोबाइल की स्क्रीन पर देखने से लोगों की आंखें कमजोर हो रही हैं. ज्यादा टाइम तक स्क्रीन देखने से आंखों की रोशनी कमजोर होने लगती हैं. आंखें लाल होने लगती हैं और उनसे पानी भी निकलने लगता है. कई लोगों को तो आंखों और सिर में दर्द भी होने लगता है.

वैश्विक इतिहास में ऐसा पहली बार हो रहा है जब इतने बड़े स्तर पर लोगों को वर्क फ्रॉम दिया गया है. कंपनियों द्वारा कर्मचारियों को सुविधा इस वजह से दी गई है ताकि 'कम्युनिटी ट्रांसमिशन' को रोका जा सके.

कैल्शियम का काम सिर्फ हड्डियों को मजबूत बनाना ही नहीं होता बल्कि यह ब्लड प्रेशर को कंट्रोल में रखता है, रक्त वाहिकाओं को स्वस्थ रखता है और इंसुलिन की मात्रा को भी कंट्रोल में रखता है.

दुनियाभर में मास्क पहनने को लेकर जरूरी एडवाइजरी जारी की गई है. N-95 और सर्जिकल मास्क की कमी नजर आ रही है जिसके चलते लोग घर पर ही मास्क बना रहे हैं.

वर्क फ्रॉम होम में हो रही परेशानियों को देखते हुए विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन द्वारा कुछ जानकारी दी गई हैं, ताकि महामारी के इस दौर में लोगों को किसी तरह की स्वास्थ्य समस्याएं न हों.