-The Hindu Carrying Posters and banners that read “Supreme Court kuch to sharam karo” (have some shame, SC), those present near the Gate number 7 of the metro station said the clean chit given to the CJI was a case of “Supreme Injustice”. New Delhi: A day after several women activists and lawyers were detained for protesting outside the Supreme Court against the clean chit given to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in...
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A policy drought
-The Hindu Business Line Distracted by elections, the country’s alarming water crisis has been overlooked As India’s water crisis gets visibly worse with every passing summer, it is clear that the bureaucracy and policymakers are not working to find immediate and long-term solutions. This time, the apathy seems to have worsened due to the ongoing elections. In Maharashtra and Kerala, for instance, the administrations have taken refuge in the ‘model code of...
More »How Poshan Kheti Is Helping Enhance Diet Diversity And Incomes In Rural Bihar
-Outlook Introduced to Nutrition Sensitive Integrated Farming System (NSIFS), or Poshan Kheti, by JEEViKA, Sushma Devi found that food produced in the family farm and kitchen garden was the perfect solution to feed her family sufficiently. Sushma Devi, a small farmer in Purnea, Bihar, was not able to provide diverse foods to her family of six members - comprising her husband, in-laws and children. Each of them has different dietary...
More »The government's anti-corruption scorecard -Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri
-The Hindu The last five years have seen consistent attacks on anti-corruption laws and institutions The popular sentiment that helped the BJP in the 2014 general election was resentment against corruption in public life. The party’s clarion call for a corruption-free India resonated with the electorate, who believed the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate when he pledged, “Na khaunga, na khane dunga (neither will I indulge in corruption, nor allow anyone else to...
More »Over 500 online Posts taken down on EC nudge -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Over 80% of the Posts taken down by Facebook, Twitter, Google and WhatsApp on the request of the Election Commission (EC) in the middle of election campaigning were political or advertisements violating the 48-hour ‘silence period’ prior to polling. According to data, 537 political Posts and advertisements were removed by the four companies during the ‘silence period’ of the first three phases. While Facebook took down...
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