-PTI Pingali has been appointed director of the Tata-Cornell Initiative in Agriculture and Nutrition Washington: Former World Bank economist Prabhu Pingali has been appointed by the Cornell University to lead effort to help reduce poverty and malnutrition in India, a project established through a USD 25 million endowment from the Tata Trusts. Pingali has been appointed director of the Tata-Cornell Initiative in Agriculture and Nutrition (TACO-AN), a long-term project established through a...
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93 hours lost in most disrupted budget session of 15th LS -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India The Budget session - saddled by a washed-out second half - ended on Wednesday, earning the dubious distinction of being the most disrupted budget session of the 15th Lok Sabha and second only to the 2010 winter session in terms of hours lost. A good 92 hours and 40 minutes were lost to disruptions and forced adjournments - on account of sustained protests over Coalgate, Railgate and...
More »Centre approves Rs 511 crore for drought, flood-hit Rajasthan, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh
-The Economic Times An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, on Wednesday approved Rs 511-crore assistance for Rajasthan, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh - the states affected by floods and droughts in 2012. Further, an additional grant of Rs 256 crore was given to Maharashtra for rejuvenation of orchards. However, the high-level committee didn't take a decision on extending the duty-free import of oil cakes for...
More »A tale of two verdicts
-The Hindu The Supreme Court's verdict last week quashing the President's rejection of a mercy petition by Mahendra Nath Das, who was to hang for a gruesome murder, shows a salutary approach to the question of whether a prolonged delay in disposing pleas for clemency should not be a ground for commuting death sentences to life terms. The court took note of the 12-year delay prior to the rejection of Das's...
More »Rights body slams DU’s decision to introduce compulsory Hindi, MIL
-The Statesman GUWAHATI, 7 MAY: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), a New Delhi-based rights body, has come out strongly against the Delhi University (DU) for its decision to introduce compulsory Hindi and other Modern Indian Languages (MIL) in its courses without assessing the ground reality and urged the University grants Commission to intervene with the famed university "to halt the four year undergraduate programme and not to introduce compulsory MILs...
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