-The Hindu It is a very important first step in addressing the mental health and well-being of children scarred by the pandemic It is now clear that COVID-19 caught us all by surprise. The school education sector in India too struggled during the novel coronavirus pandemic. While online learNINg for children has had its fair share of challenges, including learNINg loss, fatigue from online learNINg to mental stress, there is another group...
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‘I only want my husband back’: NINe days before he was killed, this Naga miner had got married -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in According to the residents of Oting village, joiNINg the army was an ‘honourable job’. Now, they want the army to leave the area. On November 25, Hokup Konyak, a 38-year-old coal miner, married Monglong Konyak. The wedding was held in the hahshahapang, or village square, in Oting in Nagaland’s Mon district. Everyone in the village attended. Eleven days later, his funeral was held in the same village square. “He was buried just...
More »The need to reopen anganwadis -Divya Nair and NINa Badgaiyan
-The Hindu India must invest robustly in the world’s largest social programme on early childhood services Being closed since the April 2020-lockdown, anganwadis are slowly reopeNINg. Those in Karnataka, Bihar and Tamil Nadu are opeNINg or considering opeNINg shortly. As part of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), anganwadis play a crucial role in supporting households, particularly from low-income families, by providing childcare, health and nutrition, education, supplementary nutrition, immunisation, health check-up...
More »PepsiCo loses rights to special Lays variety potato in India -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu The company’s registration of the variety has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority. Two years after PepsiCo India provoked outrage by suing NINe Gujarati farmers for allegedly infringing patent rights by growing its registered potato variety, the company’s registration has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority (PPV&FRA). “This judgement is a historic victory for the farmers of India. It...
More »In Maharashtra’s Drought-Prone District, a ‘Goat Bank’ Is Making Women Financially Secure -Sukanya Shantha
-TheWire.in The ‘Goat Bank of Karkheda’, started by agriculturist and educationist Naresh Deshmukh in Akola district, has helped many women overcome their debt-ridden life. Mumbai: Pratibha Patil’s family has come a long way. Just two years ago, as landless agricultural labourers in Sangavi Mohadi village in Akola, Patil and her husband toiled for over NINe hours on the land of the rich to earn their collective sum of Rs 350 per day....
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