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Now Delhi listens to you: PM Narendra Modi on death penalty for rape of children -Milind Ghatwai

-The Indian Express Modi said families should respect their daughters and inculcate values in sons. A social campaign will have to be started to create such an atmosphere in families, he said, and urged people to focus on educating their children. Mandla (M.P.): Referring to the Central government’s ordinance on capital punishment for people convicted of raping girls aged 12 or below, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said there is now...

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Facing the future of development -Ashish Kothari & Aseem Shrivastava

-The Hindu Farmers’ protests interrogate the reigning development model.   Alternatives do exist The recent spate of peasant protests across wide swathes of the country points sharply to the unjust folly and sheer unviability of the path of development that India has embraced, especially in the reform era since the late 1980s. Even, say, a modest food critic in metropolitan India collects an immodest annual pay package which can easily go into seven figures....

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'Well-designed integrated farming system can help double farmers' income by 2022' -Sobhapati Samom

-Down to Earth Experts say they have already submitted a document to the ICAR about adopting IFS in north-eastern states India needs to adopt a “well designed” integrated farming system (IFS) to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to double farmers’ income by 2022, observed the scientists and agricultural experts at the ongoing 105th Indian Science Congress in Manipur today (March 19). “The IFS can enhance farmers’ income if we provide a...

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Ravi Chopra, Environmentalist and water management expert, interviewed by Arif Hussain (TheWire.in)

-TheWire.in Environmentalist and water management expert Ravi Chopra says river inter-linking will sow the seeds for future conflicts between states. There is nothing new about the proposed river-interlinking project being pushed by the government, and this ‘unnecessary excess’ of a project will create more problems than it promises to solve, says environmentalist and water management expert, Dr Ravi Chopra, the director of People’s Science Institute, Dehradun and a managing trustee of the...

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India's forest and tree cover rises 1% since 2015, says report -Mayank Aggarwal

-Livemint.com India’s forest and tree cover rises by 8,021 sq. km, up 1% since 2015, to 802,088 sq. km, which is about 24.39% of the total geographical area of the country New Delhi: India’s forest and tree cover has increased by 8,021 sq. km, up 1% since 2015, to 802,088 sq. km, which is about 24.39% of the total geographical area (GA) of the country, revealed the Union environment ministry on Monday. Of...

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