-Livemint India is closer to breaking up FCI as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat New Delhi: India is closer to breaking up Food Corporation of India (FCI), an agency at the heart of the world's largest public food distribution programme for the poor, as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat. "Private companies should buy, store and distribute the grains as much...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Supreme Court today castigated the governments of Chhattisgarh and Bihar for providing inadequate and inaccurate data on missing children and for not adhering to its order on mandatory FIRs. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justices A.K. Sikri and Arun Misra, which heard representatives of both states, asked them to file fresh affidavits detailing the number of children rescued and the number of FIRs filed while...

-The Week Shambhu Kumar, 8, quite liked his job as a domestic help in a small town in Assam. He had to mind two children nearly his age, keep an eye on the ducks and be available for chores all day. It wasn't too hard, and he was well fed, too, though he missed his grandmother, a tea garden labourer. One day, some women from the state education department came to the...

-The Business Standard The cracker industry in Sivakasi is estimated to be worth about Rs 3,500 cr B Bagyalakshmi, S Mahalakshmi and K Sankaralingam have two things in common. All used to work in firecracker and matchbox making units at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu. However, they rebuilt their lives after studying at the National Child Labour Project (NCLP)'s special training centres, run with the financial assistance from Central and state governments. While...

-The Hindu The new system is less labour-intensive, requires less input and less seed Warangal (Telengana): Agricultural scientists in the district have introduced and popularised ‘aerobic system of rice cultivation' wherein a farmer can directly sow the seed like any other crop. The system is less labour-intensive, needs less input and less seed. At a demonstration programme held at Reddypuram on Sunday, a local farmer's crop which was grown using the ‘aerobic system'...