-The Business Standard Onion crisis is a reminder of the need for retail reform Onion prices in towns have begun, finally, to come down. That follows a fresh harvest of onions in Karnataka and Maharashtra. But the price rise could happen again - unless its causes are realistically ascertained, and the right lessons drawn. The crisis was generally believed to have been triggered by low production, high exports and rampant hoarding. However,...
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Do not ban the pentavalent vaccine
-The Economic Times The government must explain to the Supreme Court, with scientific Evidence, why the pentavalent vaccine, now introduced into the immunisation programme, should not be banned. The vaccine is designed to combat five childhood diseases: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, Hepatitis B, pneumonia and meningitis. So far, more than 82,000 doses have been administered and there have been 29 cases of adverse effects after immunisation. After examining the Evidence, it is unclear...
More »Planet racing towards 2°C temperature rise: UN report -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India The report issued on September 27 by the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) may sound similar to the one issued five years ago - after all, it says that humanity is causing climate change, though with more certainty. But on two key aspects this report has categorically said what was never said before. The first is that the carbon accumulation in the atmosphere and resulting global...
More »It works better in kind-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Launched in 2006 by the JD(U)-BJP government at the time, the scheme provided money to all girls who enrolled in Class IX through their schools to buy themselves a cycle. The first independent, scientific evaluation of the impact of Bihar's cycles-for-girls programme has shown that the scheme significantly improved female school enrolment and substantially reduced the gender gap in secondary school enrolment. The study, by Karthik Muralidharan, an economist at...
More »First decade of 21st century warmest on record: UN -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: The first decade of the 21st century has been found to be the warmest ever with the global average surface temperature for that decade at 14.4°C. In the northern hemisphere which includes majority of Asia and all of Europe, the years 1983-2012 has been found to be the warmest 30-year period of the last 1,400 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report has now confirmed...
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