-The Hindu The New Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill is antiquated and needs to be revised The Union Health Ministry recently published a new draft Bill to replace the antiquated Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. While we salute the Ministry for recognising the need for a new legislation, there is much to disagree with the new Bill. To begin with, although the Ministry has described it as being consistent with the...
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In MP’s fertile Narmadapuram, fertiliser overuse is hurting soil Quality and wheat production -Rakesh Kumar Malviya
-Mongabay India/ Scroll.in Data from the state’s agriculture department shows that the production of wheat in the region has remained stagnant in the last four years. Rahul Singh Tomar is a farmer at Raisalpur village in the Narmadapuram district of Madhya Pradesh. The village is part of the Narmada valley and is famous for the fertile black soil that yields high-Quality wheat. “The soil in our village is different,” Tomar told Mongabay-India. “Crops...
More »What’s causing mass fish death in India’s ponds and lakes? -Ananya Vyas
-Mongabay India * Every year, several ponds and lakes across various Indian states become sites of mass fish deaths. * The primary cause for this phenomenon is water pollution, most often stemming from anthropogenic activities. * A key parameter of water Quality is dissolved oxygen which can indicate the capacity of a water body to support aquatic life. In a survey of water bodies across six Indian states, not a single water body...
More »India will play its due role in advancing global food security
-ANI/ Hindustan Times Dubey said that New Delhi is running the world's largest food-based safety net programme, which has seen a paradigm shift from welfare to a rights-based approach. India will play its due role in advancing global food security, upholding equity, displaying compassion and promoting social justice, said First Secretary Sneha Dubey at the UN Security Council high-level special event on global food security crisis on Monday (local time). Dubey said that...
More »Government starts Deocha drilling with villagers’ consent -Snehamoy Chakraborty
-The Telegraph The development, multiple sources said, is vital to initiate the next phase of work to operationalise the coal mine amid protests by a large number of local people Calcutta: The Bengal government on Thursday started exploratory drilling at a stretch of land at a village under the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in a bid to estimate the layers and Quality of coal-reserve with the consent of local people in...
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