-Economic and Political Weekly A number of state agencies and non-governmental organisations have come forward to facilitate farMers/breeders to register their crop varieties and obtain plant variety certifi cates. But can these agencies bring forth a change in the mindset of the small farMers and seed savers' groups who view the current intellectual property regime with scepticism and continue to keep away from it? Shalini Bhutani (shalinibhutani@hotmail.com) is a legal researcher and...
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After ‘chikki,’ it's ‘biscuit’ scam in Maharashtra -Shoumojit Banerjee
-The Hindu RTI activist points out irregularities in procurement of biscuits Pune: More allegations of corruption are being made against the Maharashtra Women and Child Development Department (WCD) headed by BJP leader Pankaja Munde, with RTI activists pointing to irregularities in the manufacture and distribution of Ayurvedic biscuits intended a vital source for the nourishment or tribal and underprivileged children living in the State’s backward districts. While the ‘chikki’ scam, whose irregularities have...
More »Chronicle of a struggle retold -Shiv Visvanathan
-The Hindu The battle over the Narmada dam reflects a journey, a pilgrimage, and a recollection of 30 years of resistance. Numbers alone cannot make sense of it because it demands a different kind of storytelling If you were to ask a middle class person today what the most significant act of history in the India of the last 20 years is, most would say this — the rise of Narendra Modi....
More »Clean Kodaikanal campaign : Hindustan Uniliver bows down to protests -Nisha Ponthathil
-Tehelka The decision was taken four days after the music video ‘Kodaikanal Won’t’ went viral transcending all boundaries and created huge outrage against company’s disregard for the lives of it’s forMer employees and environment. Finally, the corporate giant Hindustan Uniliver yielded before the power of the common man and decided to clean up Mercury contaminated soil in the premises of its closed thermometer factory in Kodaikanal. The decision was taken four days...
More »Death penalty files ‘lost, eaten by termites’ -Pradeep Thakur & Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Records of death penalty convicts who have been executed since independence have gone missing from many prisons with the National Law University (NLU), conducting a first of its kind study, able to confirm data related to 755 executions since 1947. "Some prison authorities have written to us that either the records have been lost or destroyed by termites," NLU director Anup Surendranath told TOI, who is...
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