-Down to Earth There has been no announcement on compensation to farmers who have lost their crops Twenty farmers have died by suicide since January 2022 in Telangana’s Mahabubad district after insect infestation destroyed their chilli crop, a ground survey by the Human Rights Forum (HRF) and Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) has claimed. Five suicides have also been reported in Khammam district. Thrips parvispinus, an invasive pest from Indonesia, has spread rapidly, especially...
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Covid Vaccines Not Mandatory, Centre Tells Supreme Court
-PTI/ NDTV.com At the outset, Advocate General for Tamil Nadu Amit Anand Tiwari submitted that Tamil Nadu has come out with the vaccination mandate for the reason that vaccination against COVID-19 is essential to prevent serious DISEase in the population. New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday clarified in the Supreme Court that it has not made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory and has only said that the vaccination should be 100 per cent. The...
More »877 Newborns, 61 Mothers Died as Women Refused Hospital Delivery During COVID Pandemic: Meghalaya Govt to NHRC
-PTI/ Newsclick.in The Meghalaya government has recently submitted the action taken report to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) after the latter registered a case over the high number of maternal and newborn deaths in the state during the pandemic. Shillong: As many as 877 newborn babies and 61 mothers have died as pregnant women refused to get admitted to hospitals for institutional delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic due to fears of...
More »Active Covid-19 cases dip to 1,11,472 in India
-PTI/ The Telegraph The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.00 per cent, according to the ministry With 10,273 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,29,16,117, while the active cases dipped to 1,11,472, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,13,724 with 243 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily Covid-19 cases...
More »Millets: The mighty midgets -Pushpesh Pant
-ANI/ ThePrint.in New Delhi: A folk tale describes the plight of a poor peasant’s beautiful daughter who caught the eye of the Prince out on a hunt. He married her and made her the queen. Bliss didn’t last long. Everyone was worried when the young queen lost all appetite and began wasting away. It took a clever physician to diagnose the ailment. She was missing the coarse bread prepared with millets that...
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