-Newsclick.in Answers to all the questions you are likely to have about the Minimum Support Price and the controversy surrounding it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hope that his promise to repeal the three new farm laws will have the protesting farmers to promptly fold their tents and leave Delhi has been belied. The farmer unions have instead declared that they are not going to call off their one-year stir until the Union...

-The Hindu Total Fertility RATe has dropped to 2.0, indicating just replacement level. Births in institutional facilities, such as a hospital, improved by nearly eight percentage points but children who were either stunted or displayed signs of wasting only dropped by a maximum of three percentage points, shows a comparison of the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) and NFHS-4. The complete results of the NFHS-5 were made public on Wednesday. The NFHS-4 was...

The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electoRATe who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment geneRATion, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...

-NDTV.com In Andhra Pradesh -- the largest producer of tomatoes in the country -- the vegetable is selling at ₹ 100 a kg. In Chennai, tomatoes are burning a hole in customers' pocket, costing upwards of ₹ 140 a kilo. New Delhi: The price of tomatoes -- sold every winter around ₹ 20 a kilo -- has spiraled following rain and floods in parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In...

-Down to Earth Pond-based greywater treatment systems in Kurak Jagir village in Karnal district, Haryana, absorb greywater  More than 70 per cent of freshwater across rural households in India gets converted to greywater. With the Union water ministry’s Jal Jeevan Mission providing tap water connection to every rural household at the RATe of 55 litres per capita per day, the problem is set to intensify. Greywater refers to wastewater from non-toilet systems, that...