-The Hindustan Times India's food problem is bifocal. A fast growing democracy cannot continue to live with any more deaths due to hunger and malnutrition. Simultaneously, it has to resolve the problem of meeting the rapidly rising food needs of a growing economy or what is called food inflation, basically an inability to grow and deliver food adequately and efficiently to meet the rising and diversifying demand. Indians are good demand modelers....
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Gandhi Would Have Insisted That India Stand By Us: Suu Kyi
-Outlook Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi today said had Mahatma Gandhi been alive he would have been "vocal" about his "disapproval" of India's stand regarding her country. "I think Mahatma Gandhi would have been very vocal about his disapproval," the Noble Prize winner, for whom Gandhi has been one of the greatest influences, told Karan Thapar at CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme. "I think he (Gandhi) would have stood by us...He would...
More »Tribal Advisory Council stages walkout
-The Times of India RANCHI: Agitated members of the Tribal Advisory Council (TAC) walked out of the meeting after chief minister Arjun Munda, who is also its chairman, allegedly did not take much interest in discussing welfare of the tribal population. Former state human resource development minister Bandhu Tirkey and Congress legislator Geetashree Oraon who walked out of the meeting alleged that the chief minister was not serious and was misleading the...
More »Renewable Energy Ministry Seeks Changes in Electricity Act
-Outlook Mumbai: To ensure that both private and state-run power distributors abide by the renewable purchase obligations (RPOs), the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has called for Amendments to the Electricity Act. "We have realised that some private companies and state discoms are not complying with the RPO. To make it mandatory, we have proposed an Amendment to the Electricity Act," joint secretary Tarun Kapoor told reporters on the sidelines...
More »The power of RTI
-The Hindu The Right to Information Act was a marvel in a country that boasted unbreachable barriers between the ruler and the ruled. It was outside the imagination of the ordinary folk raised in a cloistered environment of fear and secrecy that they could actually call for and obtain records of decisions that critically impacted their lives. Yet in only seven years, the RTI law has not just penetrated the fortress...
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