-The Times of India KUSHINAGAR, UP: The two sons of Sonwa Devi were very ill and hungry for days until they died, almost together, on September 14, unaware of the fact that the Government, far away from their wretched lives in the eastern UP district, had celebrated September as National Nutrition Month to mark India’s fight against malnutrition. A few kilometres away, in Rakba Dulma Patti village, Virendra Musahar and his family...

-The Telegraph Call for expert view on complaints against J&J New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to furnish an expert probe committee’s report on allegations that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy had supplied faulty hip implants to hundreds of patients in India. It also sought the Government’s response to a public interest petition that accuses the Centre and Mumbai police of inaction in the matter. A bench headed by Chief...

-Mongabay.com * December 2018 is the official deadline for the land acquisition for the bullet train project but till now not even one percent of the required land is acquired. A court case is already going on in the Gujarat High Court against the land acquisition process undertaken by the Gujarat Government. * Despite documents showing that the project has the potential to cause social conflict and have adverse environmental impacts, the...

-The Hindu Bhuira's women are coping with the higher workload by creating vastly more flexible family and community structures. And they are simultaneously pushing towards modernity much faster than their neighbours. Everyone in the village sneaks a glance when Upasana Kumari drives her White Maruti 800 to work. “Driving a car is intoxicating,” says Kumari. A winding, muddy, single lane road that starts from the edge of the hillock where Kumari’s house...

-The Indian Express Getting the right remuneration is the most critical issue facing farmers. Government must provide policy, institutional framework for procurement. The farmer and his income is an important theme of discussion these days. A lot is being written on ways to increasing, and doubling, the farmers’ incomes by the year 2022. Viewed arithmetically, the income of a farmer is a function of three things — the cost of cultivation, production...