-The Indian Express Indian agriculture has made remarkable progress since 1947 and credit for this goes mainly to the farmer. Now we need to repay our debt to the agricultural community As India celebrates its 68th year of independence, it is time to pause and look back at the major challenges we have faced since Independence and how they were overcome, as well as at the mistakes and follies we committed...
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How India Inc is meeting target of Swachh toilets
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India Inc is slowly moving towards meeting the Swachh Bharat targets for building toilets across the country and is adopting innovative tools to meet the goals and stay within reasonable cost. While public sector companies such as Coal India and NTPC are way ahead of the private sector, Bharti, Infosys, Mahindra, TCS and Toyota are leading the pack, together building 8,000 toilets so far. M&M is...
More »Agriculture can be highly profitable, but the gains are not easy to sustain -Vivian Fernandes
-FirstPost.com Travelling across the country for the past five months to bring farmers’ voices to urban audiences through a programme called ‘Smart Agriculture’ - to be broadcast every Saturday and Sunday from 25 July on CNN-IBN - we have learnt that agriculture is not a low-profit activity. In fact, it returns more than double the amount of cash invested. Sandipan Suman, a 47 year-old agricultural sciences graduate and maize grower in Bihar’s...
More »CVC probes babus over 47 missing SEZ files -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission has started an investigation against senior officials of the commerce ministry for 47 missing files of Special Economic Zones allocated to some of the country's top companies. The SEZ files in question went missing from the ministry after the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) began reviewing the concessional land allotment made to the companies in some of the country's favoured...
More »Sunita Narain, director general, Centre for Science and Environment, interviewed by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta & Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
THE controversy over Maggi instant noodles has once again highlighted the issues plaguing food safety in India. Not only does the issue raise critical questions about safe food production by multinational companies such as Nestle but it also foregrounds the institutional fault lines when it comes to ensuring food safety. Frontline spoke to Sunita Narain, who heads the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the organisation instrumental in initiating...
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