-The Hindu Much like the space it aims to protect, India's cyber security policy, launched this week, is characterised by a striking duality of purpose. On the one hand, it seeks to guard, and thus strengthen, the country's strategic assets and online intelligence infrastructure. On the other, it hopes to secure the transactions of citizens, companies and public services on the web. The latter, more enabling goal is intended to...
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Robert E Black, professor and chairman at the department of international health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health interviewed by Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India Robert E Black is the lead author of the Lancet series on Maternal and Child Nutrition as well as professor and chairman at the department of international health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As the 2013 Lancet series is launched, Black spoke with Rema Nagarajan about its approach to tackling malnutrition, controversies over reach-ing out to commercial food interests - and vital problems causing malnutrition...
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-The Business Standard Food security should not be treated as a political ploy The government's rush to push through food security legislation as an ordinance, instead of waiting the few weeks till the next Parliament session, is disturbing. There continue to be several major problems with the food security scheme that deserve to be more thoroughly discussed at the highest level of law making than they have been so far. Nobody can...
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-The Hindu The government has come good on its promise to put in place a food security architecture but the manner in which it has pushed through the historic measure, which gives roughly 67 per cent of the population a legal right over cheap food grains, suggests it was done with an eye on the 2014 general election. The ordinance route is an extraordinary move, considered legitimate only in situations of...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared an ordinance to implement the politically significant national food security bill without waiting for Parliament's monsoon session that is about a month away. The decision to press ahead with the ordinance - delayed after the government sought to enlarge political support for the bill - is rooted in Congress's determination to project commitment to food security as an key aspect...
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