-IPA Service Soya bean damage leads to more woes There was a time when Madhya Pradesh was known as "Soya Pradesh". But from this year Madhya Pradesh will cease to be so. Similarly Madhya Pradesh was a leading state for production of all types of pulses. But at present the state is facing severe scarcity of Pulses. Soya crops have been ruined, this fact has been accepted by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh...
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Muslim women for personal law reform to avert uniform code -Eram Agha
-The Times of India ALIGARH: Mumbai-based Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan is ready to launch a "Public Hearing" in Delhi for the ban on triple talaq, recording the testimonies of Muslim women on how they suffered because of the regressive personal laws. What drives the group to launch the programme is a case from Uttar Pradesh, where 24-year-old Shahida, married in 2008 was arbitrarily divorced. After a month of her marriage her in-laws...
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-The Times of India There has been a steady decline in India's overall sex ratio (SR) over the 20th century. The 1975 Report of the Committee of the Status of Women drew attention to the fact that while the 1901 census showed 972 females per thousand males, this had declined steadily to 946 in 1951, 941 in 1961, and 930 in 1971. The 1981 census, however, threw up a happy figure of...
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-The Telegraph Satyanand Singh, a grocery store owner at Aneesabad, is selling arhar dal at Rs 200 per kg, while Ashiana Nagar-based shopkeeper Deepak Kumar sells the same at Rs 190 per kg. MoHAmmad Rafi of Boring Road has been selling arhar dal at Rs 190 per kg and the rate for the same at Vishal Mega Mart on Fraser Road is Rs 194 per kg. As soaring prices of arhar dal (pigeon...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: It will be a 'do or die' situation for India's Basmati, which occupies pride of place in the country's agricultural trade, when the Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) next week takes a call on granting 'GI' (geographical indicator) tag to the world famous long grain aromatic variety of rice. Chances of it getting the tag depends on whether India joins hands with Pakistan to...
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