-Outlook India How going back to traditional farming practices is changing the lives of Bhil Adivasis in the hilly tribal village of Gamaniya Hameera in Rajasthan. Twenty-eight year old Kailash Nathu, a member of Bhil Adivasi community, recalls a horrific incident from 2018, when like very year, he migrated from his village Gamaniya Hameera, all the way to Gujarat to find work as a daily-waged labourer. Nathu was not the only villager...

-The Telegraph The state government has neither made public the total number of dengue cases this year nor the number of deaths it caused Disregard for data, letting the large volunteer force created for Covid disappear following a sharp drop in cases, failure to spread awareness, love for denial.  The wild spread of dengue across West Bengal has bared lapses in the government’s combat strategy and the failure of health officials to learn...

-The Telegraph Struggle to reduce cases in 6 districts The Bengal health department is finding it tough to pull down the dengue positivity rate to under 10 per cent in at least six districts, including Calcutta, because of the paucity of civic and rural workers with the skill to track and destroy mosquito breeding pockets. Among Bengal districts, the dengue positivity rate this week is the highest in Calcutta, followed by Jalpaiguri, Hooghly,...

-The Telegraph State had reported only 1,753 cases and three deaths to National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control till June Calcutta: The Bengal government is not releasing figures on dengue deaths or the exact area-wise demarcation of zones reporting the maximum number of cases, ostensibly to avoid panic. However, several public health experts contested the purported justification, saying clear communication would be far better to fight a public health scare than the...

-The Telegraph West Bengal this year recorded the highest cumulative figure of dengue infections till a year’s 43rd week since 2017 dengue cases will keep rising unless people become conscious and take steps to prevent mosquito breeding, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Sunday. Hakim said it was not possible for any government or civic body to locate each and every mosquito-breeding site, in each and every household. The dengue virus is spread by Aedes...