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IIT-D shows how Punjab can re-use farm waste -Manash Pratim Gohain

-The Times of India New Delhi: Are you a farmer? How about earning a handsome amount from the stubble left behind in your field instead of burning it and adding to the pollution level? How about also getting bio-fertiliser and sustainable energy in the same deal? An IIT-Delhi team has provided technical support to Asia's first biogas-based power plant which is now operating on paddy straw for large-scale biogas production in Fazilka, Punjab....

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Orphan food? Nay, future of food -Satish Deodhar

-Livemint.com Pulses are important from the perspectives of food security, environmental sustainability and balanced nutrition Most pulses such as pigeon pea (tur dal), black gram (urad), green gram (mung), field beans (waal), moth beans (matki) and horse gram (kulith) are native to the Indian subcontinent and have been an integral part of our diet for centuries. However, the single-minded focus on cereals over the last 50 years—the green revolution in wheat and...

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Sher Singh Verick, deputy director, ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, speaks to Outlook

-Outlook Deputy director, ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, Sher Singh Verick on India’s high but “jobless” growth mystery Sher Singh Verick, deputy director, ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, strives to unr­avel India’s high but “jobless” growth mystery. Excerpts from an e-mail interview: * On high growth, low jobs Economic growth through investment, consumption and exports generally res­ults in more jobs,...

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Victory for Students and Access to Knowledge in DU Copyright Case: ASEAK

-Kafila Guest Statement by Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge (ASEAK) Victory for Students and Access to Knowledge in DU Copyright Case: Corporate Publishers Market ends at the gates of the University In a rare and incredible order today, the Delhi High Court has dismissed the copyright infringement case filed by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis (Routledge) against Rameshwari Photocopy Shop in Delhi School of Economics...

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Indian agriculture must diversify itself: Professor Yoginder K Alagh

-The Times of India Chandigarh: Indian agriculture must meet the requirements of food security and rapidly diversify itself in the next two decades and there is a need to revision it, said noted economist, chancellor of the Central University of Gujarat and former Union minister professor Yoginder K Alagh on Monday. Professor Alagh delivered the first lecture on the topic of "Future of Indian Agriculture" as the Dr Manmohan Singh Chair Professor...

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