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Mint index of rural distress shows deepening crisis in villages -Roshan Kishore

-Livemint If the IMD forecast of below normal monsoon comes true, the Mint index of rural distress is likely to rise to its decadal high Indian farmers are trapped in a new cycle of distress, and the first monsoon forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) released on Wednesday indicates the rains could play truant for the second year in a row. A Mint index of rural distress—based on the growth of...

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Paediatrics to gynae, where are the surgeons, physicians? -Abantika Ghosh

-The Indian Express New Delhi: India is facing a debilitating shortage of health specialists, including in basic disciplines such as surgery, gynaecology and paediatrics, statistics compiled by the National Health Mission show. Rural community health centres face over 82 per cent shortage in surgeons, physicians and peadiatricians — 82.5%, 82.6% and 82.2% respectively — and have only 23.4 per cent of the obstetricians and gynaecologists they require. The story in urban centres is...

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Farm to Plate: How safe is your food? -Priyamvada Kowshik

-India Today "The butterflies will show you the way to the farm." Farmer Sunil Gupta is not talking of mythical butterflies that will appear to guide me to the organic farm I am trying to locate amidst swathes of farmland, some lush with the standing paddy, some damaged in parts from last week's strong winds, others dotted with vegetable patches or freshly ploughed for the next crop. Can one tell an organic...

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Victory for team of young lawyers, activists -Rukmini S

-The Hindu ‘Liberty of speech, expression cardinal concepts of paramount significance in a democracy' Tuesday's verdict is a victory for a loose coalition of young lawyers, Internet activists and researchers who filed separate petitions but helped each other with backroom work and creating public opinion over the last two years. Among the young lawyers who argued the case is Mishi Choudhary, a technology lawyer and founding director of the non-profit, Software Legal Centre,...

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Free speech Ver.2.0 -Lawrence Liang

-The Hindu With its judgment to strike down a legal provision for violating freedom of speech, the Supreme Court has paved the way for thoughtful jurisprudence in the age of the Internet While describing Sec.124A of the IPC (sedition) as the "prince among the political sections designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen", Mahatma Gandhi offered us an ironic way of thinking about liberty-curbing laws through the metaphor of illegal tyrants....

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