Gorakhpur

Once plagued by severe monsoon flooding, Gorakhpur has transformed its disaster response. With support from the Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation and tech solutions by Canarys, the city’s flood warning system now helps residents act within two hours — instead of 12.

Troubled by the large scale unemployment during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020, Amar Prajapati a class 8 student in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, started Jeevan Prakash, an LED bulb manufacturing company.

Urban gardener Brahmadev Kumar of Gorakhpur shares his step-by-step process to make compost from used tea powder

A sustainable alternative to concrete walls and ceilings, these fibre panels made from agricultural waste can not just be a long term solution for stubble burning, but also fetch up to Rs 25000 for the farmers. #Innovation #GreenIndia

The Railway's staff was calm in the face of an emergency.

The leopard was seemingly unwell, lying unconscious.

The death toll, 30 children in just 48 hours and more than 60 five days later, might have been a lot higher if not for the efforts and humanity of one man.

After their repeated requests to the municipal corporation fell on deaf ears, a group of 20 transgender folks in Gorakhpur accumulated their earnings to get a concrete road built in their locality.

Paramahansa Yogananda laid the groundwork for Western people to access the spiritual teachings of India in a way that nobody had before or has since.

Watch how Gorapkhpur district in Uttar Pradesh is at the forefront of creating a climate resilient future for its citizens. They are prepared to face the floods that hit the area year after year. There are lessons here for the rest of India, indeed, the rest of the world, to follow.