-TheWire.in ICDS plays a vital role in a country which is home to 190 million undernourished people – the highest in the world. Is the government of India planning to dismantle the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, the world’s largest food security project? The ICDS is a unique outreach programme to meet the nutritional needs of ten crore Indian children under the age of six and to improve the nutrition levels of...
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Yogendra Yadav, national president of the Swaraj India party, interviewed by Manas Roshan (Scroll.in)
-Scroll.in The Swaraj India leader says the economy needs a big boost in the rural areas and for small scale manufacturers. In July, Yogendra Yadav, the national president of the Swaraj India party, embarked on a nationwide movement accompanied by activists and hundreds of farmers. Under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee, a coalition of more than 150 farmer unions across the country, the yatra was planned...
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-The Indian Express The Sardar Sarovar Project has been dedicated to the nation. The nation must ask: Who is this development for, and at what cost? Was the ceremonial dedication of the Sardar Sarovar Dam to the nation on September 7 a success or a failure? The answer to this question could vary. Some may be influenced by the fact that no chief minister other than Gujarat’s participated in the function. Others...
More »SC opens a window to itself, starts to disclose appointment decisions -Ananthakrishnan G
-The Indian Express Five most senior judges, led by Chief Justice, decide to go public with Collegium decisions and reasons for each In a landmark move aimed at ensuring transparency in the appointment of judges at a time when this process is at the centre of a row with the government over the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), the Supreme Court Friday began uploading on its website the decisions of its Collegium on...
More »Death convict should die in peace, not in pain, says Supreme Court -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Observing that a convict facing death must die in peace and not in pain, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine whether execution of death sentence by hanging could be replaced by other less painful procedures like by injecting lethal injection or shooting. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said the government and Parliament could...
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