-IndiaToday.in The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has not yet barred the company from operations in India even as many of its medical products made for Indian use have also been found to be of substandard quality, often flagged by authorities. Ever since Maiden Pharmaceuticals has come under the scanner of the World Health Organisation (WHO) after being flagged for the four cough syrups manufactured in India and exported to Gambia...

-Newsclick.in On Thursday, activists alleged that owing to a “shortage of schools” in the city, over 80,000 children have been denied admission to government schools in the recent past; the merger-closure policy has also LED to a “steep decline” in the classroom teaching-learning process, according to them. New Delhi: The continuing merger of state-run schools in the national capital in the name of rationalisation has come under flak for leading to “severe...

-Hindustan Times The House panel also made a “strong appeal” to authorities to change the index that decides wage revision for better wages under the programme. New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel has recommended extension of work allocation under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), India’s flagship job scheme, to 150 days per year, according to a committee report. The MGNREGS currently guarantees 100 days of wage employment to each person in...

-The Hindu Everybody has a favourite villain to blame, yet the herd of restive elephants in the room is LED by a particularly malevolent matriarch — corruption The floods have abated in Bengaluru. As individuals struggle to clean their houses, the silt on the roads left behind by the receding water — now a fine dust that flies in the air choking us — is a reminder of those difficult times. Various analyses...

-Livemint.com Tackle deficiencies of capital mobilization, access to state provisions and women’s participation to boost FPCs across India. In 2017, the Indian government reaffirmed its commitment to reduce rural distress among nearly 93 million farming households through efforts to double farmers’ income. What has been remarkable is the emergence of farmer producer companies (FPCs) as a viable way of supporting this approach. The last two years have been tumultuous. Pro-market legislation introduced in...