-Down to Earth As the geography of arsenic contamination spreads, there is an urgent need for governments to reorient mitigation measures. That’s because the focus till now has only been on drinking water, but new research says arsenic has contaminated our food chain Arseic contamination in groundwater is one of the most crippling issues in the drinking water scenario of India. According to the latest report of the Central Ground Water Board...
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Don't know who are 'Urban Naxals': Govt replies to RTI query -Ashok Upadhyay
-IndiaToday.in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and many senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have used the term 'Urban Naxals' in public speeches to attack their opponents. The Left Wing Extremism Division in the Union Home Ministry does not have any information on who are 'Urban Naxals' and where do they operate. This was revealed in an RTI application filed India Today TV. This comes close on...
More »Reality of Reforms: Education policy and a Bihar college -Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-Career360.com BEGUSARAI, BIHAR: Ganesh Dutt College in Begusarai, Bihar, offers a paper on gender economics as part of the postgraduate economics programme. It will enrol students, suggest books, conduct internal tests and assess them. It just won’t teach it in class. Students opting for it are on their own. This is not how the economics department wants to run things. But it has 960 undergraduate and postgraduate students and three teachers, who...
More »Why learning to cook Pulicat's food is important to save this ecologically sensitive wetland -Shonali Muthalaly
-The Hindu Pulicat’s fisherwomen join forces with chefs using their culinary heritage and fresh-caught fish to convince the city that their home is worth fighting for Activism and seafood make for an unusual, but unexpectedly persuasive, meal. As part of the ongoing Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha, an all-star cast recently combined forces to bring Pulicat and its fishing community to the city, by serving up a meal that was a crafty combination of...
More »The new challenge for Census 2021 -Devesh Kapur and Neelanjan Sircar
-Hindustan Times The CAA-NPR-NRC controversy may deter citizens from offering authentic information Amid the anger and acrimony over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR), and a possible National Register of Citizens (NRC), which the government has said has not been finalised yet, there has been little thought regarding its effects on another growing challenge — the quality of official data. In the last few years, official data...
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