-The New Indian Express THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After facing subsequent delays, National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, will be finally rolled out in the state in six months. In a significant decision, the Cabinet on Thursday decided to issue new ration cards - which will see BPL/AAY cards replaced with priority category cards - by December. The Cabinet also cleared a proposal to rank ration card-holders at the state level to determine the priority...
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Geographical indication: Battle over Basmati -Milind Ghatwai, Harish Damodaran & Divya Goyal
-The Indian Express The GI tag is used to identify various kinds of goods including Darjeeling tea, Kanchipuram silk saree and Kolhapuri chappal. When Krishnakumar Tomar, one of the first to grow basmati in this fertile belt, harvested his crop 14 years back, he had no idea where to sell it. With no local takers for the aromatic paddy, the 40-year-old from Badi, which falls in Raisen district, was told he could...
More »Nashik farmer gets just 5 paise per kg for onions
-PTI Nashik: A farmer from Karanjgaon village in Nashik district has claimed to have got the rate of 5 paise per kg for onions, prompting him to dump his produce of 13 quintals in his field in protest, even as a trader blamed “poor quality” of bulb for the low price. Sudhakar Darade, who hails from Niphad taluka, said his onions got valued at Rs. 5 per quintal (100 kg) at Saikheda...
More »No. of India?s TB patients may be double the estimate: Lancet -Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India MUMBAI: India's tuberculosis nightmare could be much worse than feared. A new study analysing the sale of anti-TB medicines across India has estimated that there could be two times more drug-sensitive TB patients than currently assumed. While it was assumed that India's annual burden of TB cases stands at roughly 2.2 million a year, the study to be published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Thursday pegs...
More »10 more killed in floods in Bihar, UP
-PTI Major rivers are flowing above danger mark; NDRF teams sent to Varanasi, Allahabad and Ghazipur Ten persons were killed and lakhs affected due to floods in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, where major rivers are flowing above danger mark on Wednesday. Two boys were feared dead after they were washed away in flash floods in the Tawi river in Jammu on Wednesday. In Uttar Pradesh, two persons were killed in floods...
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