-PTI India have won four, including two gold, one silver and one bronze, medals at the ongoing Rio Paralympics so far. New Delhi: Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Wednesday refused to commit if medallists of the ongoing Rio Paralympics will be conferred with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award — the highest sporting honour in the country. An Olympic medallist directly qualifies for the Khel Ratna award during an Olympic year but Goel...
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Aadhaar now must for government schemes, benefits -Rajeev Deshpande & Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The use of Aadhaar card is set to become mandatory for all central and state government subsidies and benefits which require funding from the central exchequer with the Centre notifying the unique identity (UID) regulations. While the law had empowered the Centre to mandate use of Aadhaar, the rules clearly stipulate that any agency, such as the oil ministry dealing with cooking gas or HRD's scholarship...
More »Indian farm sector worried after $66 b Bayer-Monsanto deal -KV Kurmanath
-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto for $66 billion could trigger tremors in Indian agriculture. Stakeholders worry that the global consolidation will narrow choices for farmers. The merger will propel the merged entity into a leading player in the seed sector. THRough their subsidiaries and joint ventures in India, the two firms will garner a major share in paddy, maize, vegetables and cotton and agrochemicals. “It will lead to concentration...
More »Karnataka has lost 6 lakh ha of farm land in a decade: official -AJ Vinayak
-The Hindu Business Line The cropping pattern in Karnataka has seen a lot of changes in the last one decade with farmers giving THRust to crops such as sugarcane and arecanut. This has resulted in the decline of area under cultivation of crops such as paddy and ragi. In addition, TN Prakash Kammardi, Chairman of the Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission, told presspersons in Mangaluru on Tuesday that nearly six lakh hectares of farm...
More »NCRB goofs up on number of arrests under cyber law Sec 66A -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) conceded on Friday that its crime statistics for 2014 and 2015 had misreported cases registered under Section 66A, a cyber law under the Information Technology Act that was scrapped by the Supreme Court last year. The NCRB’s ‘Crime in India’ report released last month had put the number of people arrested under Section 66A at 3,137 in 2015 and 2423 in 2014. This implied...
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