-Frontline The Central government's proposal to hand over the supply of supplementary nutrition to NGOs in the name of "community participation" is surely an invitation for private profiteering on the back of this supposedly public scheme. ENSURING safe and healthy conditions for the reproduction of the population is obviously the most fundamental requirement of any society. So the progress of a society can be determined (and indeed is routinely judged) by the...
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Arunima is first woman amputee to scale Everest -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu At 10.55 a.m. Tuesday, Arunima Sinha, 26, became India's first woman to conquer Mt. Everest on a prosthetic leg. A former national volleyball player, Arunima lost her left leg, having been thrown off a moving train for resisting a chain-snatching attempt by some criminals on April 12, 2011. She sustained serious leg and pelvic injuries, and to save her life, doctors had to amputate her left leg below the knee....
More »Indian capital has 13 times more toilets for men than women-Nita Bhalla
-Reuters NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The Delhi high court has called on local authorities in the Indian capital to provide more public toilets for women after it heard that there were more than 13 times more toilets for men in the city, the Times of India reported on Thursday. According to the report, there are 3,712 public toilets for men, compared to 269 for women in 10 out of 12 zones...
More »Foodgrain production in kharif season likely to increase by 8% -Jacob P Koshy and Ragini Verma
-Live Mint The kharif crop may improve by 8.1% to 135 million tonnes, after falling by 2% last year due to weak monsoon Foodgrain production in India's kharif season, the summer crop, is estimated to increase by a little more than 8% this year on expectations of normal monsoon rains, boosting hopes of a recovery in Asia's third largest economy and a decline in food price inflation. The kharif crop may improve by...
More »Uniting the Nation: Asghar Ali Engineer’s Struggle for Preservation of Plural Ethos-Ram Puniyani
-Countercurrents.org The events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence began with the Jabalpur riot of 1961, it is from last couple of decades especially from 1980s that the divisive politics has tried to drive a wedge between different...
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