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Everyone loves food security -Sunil Jain

-The Indian Express The Congress's bill could end up sponsoring the NDA's campaigns A good thing about the logjam in Parliament, it has to be said, is that it has prevented the ill-advised food security bill from being passed. It would, though, be naive on our part to presume the BJP stalled Parliament - the Congress's blatant abuse of the CBI process was a big reason for this - only because it...

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Other nations can emulate DBT scheme, says ADB-Ashok Dasgupta

-The Hindu   "I think it is a great effort, we are learning a lot from India" Even as India's Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is yet to be fully implemented under its second phase, the government's flagship programme on distribution of entitlements to the poor came in for praise by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). At a media conference on Saturday on the sidelines of the ADB's ongoing annual meeting at Greater Noida near...

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Sunny future -Sujay Mehdudia

-The Hindu   As a sun-swept country, India should have been a pioneer in the use of solar power with a photovoltaic panel on every roof. Good policy can help make up for lost time. Solar is the most secure of all energy sources, since it is abundantly available in India. With crippling electricity shortages, the price of electricity traded internally touched Rs. 7 a unit for base loads and Rs. 8.50 during...

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The sunshine State-Darshan Desai

-The Hindu Launched towards the end of 2010, the Rs. 9,000-crore Gujarat Solar Park, set up on government wasteland in north Gujarat, has already been producing 214 MW from the sun, making it the first State to generate such capacity at a single location. And when expanded to 5,000 acres from the present 2,669 acres, the Charanka Park, located at a village of Patan district, will generate 500 MW. This will make...

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200 farmers detained for 6 hours -Vandana Keelor

-The Times of India GREATER NOIDA: Nearly 200 farmers , many of them partly clothed, courted arrest on Yamuna Expressway . The farmers planned to protest before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at theAsian Development Bank (ADB) summit in Greater Noida on Saturday . The agitators , who were on their way to the Expo Mart , were intercepted and taken to the police lines . The protesters alleged that the cops...

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