-The Indian Express The seeming revival over the last two quarters reverses the trend of declining employment under MGNREGA seen during the first year of the Modi government. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the flagship welfare programme of the previous UPA government, appears to be staging a revival of sorts. And this turnaround is being attributed mainly to better monitoring by the Centre and timely release of funds. The July-September...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 3935
Black rice cultivation- a success story in Assam -Kishore Talukdar
-Nezine.com A progressive farmer in Assam’s Goalpara district is leading a mission to grow black rice in the State A farmer from Assam‘s Goalpara district has created history of sort by not only successfully cultivating a black rice variety called Oryza Sativa but has also initiated more than 200 othersinto it. This year, the progressive farmer, Upendra Rabha, of the district’s Amguripara area, helped grow black rice in 500 bighasof land along...
More »In MP, 1 officer caught everyday for taking bribe -Amarjeet Singh
-The Times of India BHOPAL: In what is a shocking reminder on rampant corruption among babus in Madhya Pradesh, the official figures of special police establishment (SPE), lokayukta, reveals that at least one official was caught taking bribe every day in the year 2015. And this is the consecutive third year when the average is close to one 'babu' being caught everyday while taking bribe. As per the official figures a total...
More »Destruction of the Doha Round
-Economic and Political Weekly India plays a poor hand at the World Trade Organization's negotiations. The idea that there is no longer a sharp divide between the global North and the global South has been disproved in ample measure by the decisions taken last month in Nairobi at the 10th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The essence of the final communique is that the 14-year-old Doha “Development” Agenda (DDA)...
More »IIT Kanpur study finds presence of PAH in Delhi’s air
-PTI Apart from PAH, the report identifies the sources of suspended particulate matter PM 2.5, namely road dust, vehicles, domestic fuel burning and industrial point sources New Delhi: An Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur study has found alarming details on Delhi’s air pollution, including the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), that are extremely toxic chemicals and a product of emissions from diesel-run vehicles among others. Apart from PAH, the draft report,...
More »
