-Deccan Chronicle The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make “bread from air”. There are two distinct futures of food and farming. One leads to a dead end. A dead planet: poisons and chemical monocultures spreading; farmers committing suicide due to debt for seeds and chemicals; children dying due to lack of food; people dying because of chronic diseases spreading due to nutritionally empty, toxic...

-Livemint.com Fines for public urination could fatten local administrations, and actually allow them to create an army of sanitary inspectors—imagine the number of jobs that could be created A country on the move needs a slogan, so may I humbly suggest one: because a man’s got to go when a man’s got to go. That’s the perfect slogan for a country where most men think it’s OK to pee anywhere. I say...

-The Hindu Around the world, nearly 1.6 billion people are affected by a group of diseases so ignored that the term used to refer to them is called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). These are a cluster of 17 diseases affecting the poorest people living in the least developed pockets of the world. While some of these diseases may be unfamiliar, leprosy, kala-azar and filariasis are better known in India and being targeted...

-TheWire.in Aadhaar and its many connotations have grown to be among the most burning issues on the Indian fore today, that every citizen aware of their rights should be taking note of. New Delhi: With the leak of 130 million Aadhaar numbers recently coming to light, several activists, lawyers and ordinary citizens are up in arms about what is increasingly being viewed as a government surveillance system. Keeping this in mind, on...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Union home ministry has asked nearly 6,000 of the 13,000 registered NGOs in the country receiving foreign donations to open accounts in nationalised banks to facilitate constant surveillance of their activities. The NGOs have accounts in cooperative banks or state-owned banks, which do not have core-banking facilities. "To maintain surveillance on the activities of NGOs receiving foreign funds, the ministry wants all NGOs registered under the Foreign Contribution...