I found that my adsense balance had not changed for a long time. I realized I had not noted for a very long time whether the google ads are displaying in my site or not. When I did, i found that the ads had stopped displaying.
After some search, i found the
below page (click to enlarge image) .
The thing is, google had removed the ads for some reason without even sending a notice about it, at least to my email id.
Currently, though i see some eligibility requirements, I still do not know for sure why google ads were removed from my blog.
On the blogger settings, under 'layout', there is an option to add an adsense gadget for my blog, when try adding an adsense gadget using that, the status msg says the gadget is added, when it actually doesn't add (hopefully, this one belongs to the blogger teams' issue list).
The work is still on to find out why. Will update when i get this sorted out.
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