—AFP World farm production must rise 60 per cent by 2050 to meet the needs of a growing population but this has to happen in a “more sustainable way”, the U.N. food agency FAO and the OECD said on Wednesday. “It’s mostly going to be about productivity”, said Angel Gurria, head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), at a press conference in Rome, explaining that farmland area would increase...
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India slipping on child wellbeing, indicates report-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu 8.1 million children are out of school, 42% are underweight India has slipped by 12 ranks in the global grading on the child development index, which denotes health, education and nutrition, between 1995 and 2010. Japan is the best place in the world to be a child, while Somalia is the worst, a latest report has suggested. The Child Development Index report released by NGO Save the Children makes an aggregate...
More »Haryana Oppn, activists disrupt hearing on n-plant plan-Nandini Thilak
-The Indian Express A public hearing for environmental clearance to the proposed Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana came to an abrupt end Tuesday when members of the Opposition INLD led by Abhay Singh Chautala stormed the venue to protest acquisition of land for the plant. Kuldeep Bishnoi-led members of the Haryana Janhit Congress also reached the venue in support of farmers and activists opposed to the project for...
More »What about N-waste from Kudankulam, HC asks Centre
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Where will the nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant be kept and what are the Centre's plans to process the spent Fuel to ensure that it does not damage the environment? This is what the Madras high court, hearing a batch of public interest petitions on the nuclear plant, wants to know from the Centre. But in the absence of the additional solicitor-general (ASG) of...
More »Corporate funding to parties be channelled through Election Commission: Sitaram Yechuri
-PTI NAGPUR: Calling for corporate funding to political parties be stopped forthwith, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechuri today said instead the money should be donated to the Election Commission which can use it to help the candidates in their poll campaigns. "The EC can help the candidates by providing them vehicles, Fuel, drivers and also publish their posters and provide printed election material. This way all the candidates of respective parties...
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