-The Telegraph Objective of SPANDAN initiative is to undertake Research understanding linkages between agriculture, nutrition and health in India: Economist Jharkhand became the second state after Bihar and Odisha in eastern India to have Food Security Atlas for its rural areas prepared by Delhi-based Institute for Human Development (IHD) as part of the Research initiative of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Odisha and Bihar had their Atlas launched in...

-The Telegraph Experts say government measures facilitate supply of poor quality equipment and threaten to hobble country’s Research efforts The Narendra Modi government’s Make-in-India campaign and e-marketplace initiative have stirred frustration among scientists who say these measures facilitate the supply of poor quality equipment and threaten to hobble the country’s Research efforts. The Make-in-India campaign embedded in the Government-e-marketplace (GeM), a portal for online procurement, appears to have ignored the realities of India’s...

-Peoples' Dispatch A convergence of factors such as extreme heat waves, melting glaciers, and heavy monsoon rainfall explains the scale of floods in the country. All these factors are connected to climate change Floods have devastated Pakistan this year, with 33 million people affected and more than 1,200 killed. Rivers breaching their banks coupled with the bursting of glacial lakes inundated almost one-third of the country, causing a massive economic loss. Recovery...

-Newsclick.in Researchers will now focus on how the Dwarf Virus, first found in China, entered Punjab and Haryana. Even though the virus causing the ‘dwarfing’ of paddy in Punjab and Haryana is new in the country, the insect that carries the virus has been here for years, according to a latest Research by scientists at Ludhiana’s Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), the Indian Express reported. The Southern Rice Black-streaked Dwarf Virus (SRBSDV) is carried...

There is euphoria abound about India's growth performance during the first quarter of the current fiscal. As compared to the corresponding period last year, the year-on-year (y-o-y) GDP growth in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022-23 is down. However, one should take into account the fact that the high growth performance of the real GDP in Q1 of 2021-22 was due to the low base in the corresponding period of...