-TheWire.in Conditionalities related to utilising health services do not make any sense in the absence of a service guarantee, and only serve to blame the victims and not the system for its failures. Nearly six months after the prime minister announced maternity benefits of Rs 6,000 to pregnant and lactating mothers, the cabinet yesterday approved the implementation of the maternity benefits programme (MBP) – a scheme that will likely exclude a large...
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Parched in Tamil Nadu's rice bowl -Avik Saha & Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu Business Line In the Cauvery delta’s worst drought in 140 years, a padyatra brings home the harsh realities of how Tamil farmers are living on the edge and what sustains their resilience A farmer sells his sugar cane to the local public sector sugar mill, where he is mandated to sell his crop. Instead of paying, the factory hands him a slip of paper. Eighteen months pass by and he...
More »Deepak Pental, innovator of the transgenic mustard variety, interviewed by Sayantan Bera (Livemint.com)
-Livemint.com All our solutions in agriculture, besides management issues, are going to come from science and technology, says Deepak Pental, innovator of GM mustard Last week, the environment ministry’s regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), cleared the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) mustard, leaving it to the government to take a final call. If approved, it will be India’s first food crop developed using transgenic technology, 15 years after Bt...
More »Kolkata: Five years after AMRI fire, trial has miles to go -Sweety Kumari
-The Indian Express The fire had broken out on December 9, 2011. Police filed a case against 16 members of the hospital staff on several grounds of negligence; among the charges was culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Kolkata: OVER FIVE years since a fire killed 92 persons in Kolkata’s AMRI Hospital, families of the victims are worrying about how much longer the trial will drag, with just one of 452...
More »Cabinet changes law to stop overstay of MPs, bureaucrats at government bungalows
-Hindustan Times The amendments to the law will ensure that ministers, Members of Parliament and bureaucrats, don’t overstay in government bungalows. New Delhi: The Centre’s push to rid its limited living spaces of squatters got a fillip on Wednesday with the Union cabinet clearing amendments to the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971. The amendments to the law will ensure that ministers, Members of Parliament and bureaucrats, don’t overstay in government...
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