-The Indian Express Gandhinagar: Acting on a petition that, among other prayers, seeks compensation of Rs 5 lakhs for the families of 692 farmers who reportedly committed suicide in Gujarat between January 2003 and October 2012, a bench of Supreme Court issued notice to Gujarat Government directing it to file reply in four weeks. The petitioner group has been identified as Citizens Resource & Action Initiative (CRANTI). It had earlier,...
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'One-third India's women, children underweight'
-IANS New Delhi: India's improved ranking in the Global Hunger Index is good news, but the country still has a long way to go as one-third of its women and children under five still underweight, experts said Wednesday. India improved its position from 63rd in 2013 to 55th in 2014 in the Global Hunger Index released recently. "India has clearly made progress towards improving nutrition, but the road ahead is still long,"...
More »IFPRI assesses nutrition issues at two-day event in Delhi -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: One-third of India's women and children under the age of five are underweight and micronutrient deficiencies are common. The country, however, is making progress against hunger as shown by India moving up eight places from last year on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) to rank 55th out of 76 nations. To explore related aspects of nutrition improvement across various sectors, the International Food Policy Research...
More »Letter to PM about US-India Bilateral Relations on Intellectual Property
-Kafila.org Dear Prime Minister Modi ji, We, the undersigned, wish to share with you some of our concerns on India's position on intellectual property (IP), particularly in the context of bilateral relations between the United States of America and India. We gather from the US-India Joint Statement dated 30 September 2014 that the Indian Government (a)greeing on the need to foster innovation in a manner that promotes economic growth...
More »Narendra Modi government takes RTI to another level: All replies to be put online -Aman Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: It had been expected to dilute the UPA government's showpiece Right to Information (RTI) Act that had become a scourge of sorts for its ministers and bureaucrats and was even blamed by some as a contributing factor for the policy paralysis during its reign. But the Narendra Modi-led BJP government has done the reverse and taken RTI to quite another level. Starting next month, all replies...
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