-Outlook Ahmedabad: Opposition Congress today alleged there was a drastic rise in number of suicides in Gujarat in the past decade. "37,248 people have committed suicides in Gujarat over last ten years. Everyday, 10 persons take their lives, out of which 6 are male and 4 female," according to a book 'End of Lives: Rise in The Suicide in the So-called Developed Society, Why?', released here today. State Congress leaders claimed that the...
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'India May Win Patent Claims Due to Knowledge Library'
-Outlook Hyderabad: India could win 105 claims on international patents due to its Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here today, opening the high-level segment meeting at the Conference of Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity. "We decided to build this knowledge database because of the patent on the use of neem extract in Europe and another patent on the use of turmeric as a healing agent. Since...
More »On World Food Day, UN focuses on agricultural cooperatives to end global hunger
-The United Nations Amid economic crises, climatic shocks, and high and volatile food prices in a world of plenty where nearly 870 million people still go hungry, the United Nations today marked World Food Day by highlighting agricultural cooperatives as vital weapon in the war on poverty and hunger. “Owned by their members, they can generate employment, alleviate poverty, and empower poor and marginalized groups in rural areas, especially women, to drive...
More »Senior official probing Vadra-DLF Land deal shunted out
-The Hindu A top official in the Haryana government’s Land registration department was transferred hours after he initiated a probe into all the Land dealings of Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in four districts of the State neighbouring Delhi, The Hindu can disclose. The transfer order came on October 11, 2012 — even as the country was still digesting the allegations made by India Against Corruption of a nexus...
More »Why was I transferred? asks Haryana IAS officer who ordered probe into Vadra's Land deals
-The Times of India A top IAS officer in Haryana, Ashok Khemka, who was recently trasferred by the state government for allegedly ordering a probe into the Land deals of Robert Vadra, has spoken out against his abrupt transfer. Khemka had cancelled the mutation of a Land sold by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law to the DLF and also ordered probe into the alleged undervaluation of some of his Land deals. Speaking to Times Now,...
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