-Hindustan Times It has been unable to cope with new challenges to public order. Autonomy is the only way out The year 2019 ended on a stressful note for the Indian Police, battling a number of agitations over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) across the country. The police also had to answer an array of questions about that methods of handling the protests. Violent...
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Unsustainable food & land use can cost us a lot in the future, says new report
-Press release by Food and Land Use Coalition dated 10 January 2020 India can ensure healthy diets for its growing population, improve livelihoods and plug waste by adopting better food and land use practices New Delhi, January 10, 2020 – With a population projected to reach 1.5 billion people by 2030, and climate risks threatening food security, livelihoods, water supply and human health, India needs to urgently shift to sustainable food...
More »'Where are the seeds?' -R Krithika
-The Hindu Journalist-author Meena Menon on the crisis of cotton and why India needs to go back to desi varieties There’s a pithy summing up of Bt Cotton in Meena Menon’s 2018 article ‘A lost cotton heritage’. “Bt cotton is like Fair and Lovely,” Kamal Kishore Dhiran, an organic cotton farmer, tells the journalist and author. “Does it really change you or make you fair? Similarly Bt cotton doesn’t address the main...
More »Cong piles Gujarat firm heat on Modi
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Congress on Monday demanded that the State Bank of India declare the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation bankrupt as it sought to puncture holes into "dream merchant" Narendra Modi's "Mr Clean" image, armed with an RBI circular on Resolution of Stressed Assets. Senior party leader Jairam Ramesh said the February 12 Reserve Bank circular mandated that any company that owed more than Rs 2,000 crore to banks on...
More »India can exceed its climate goals while maintaining GDP of 6-7%: report -Mayank Aggarwal
-Livemint.com India can meet its national climate change goals promised under the Paris Climate Agreement, says report by World Resources Institute and Open Climate Network New Delhi: Not only can India meet its national climate change goals promised under the Paris Climate Agreement, but can potentially exceed them while maintaining an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6-7%, said a new report released on Wednesday. The report, “Pathways For Meeting India’s Climate...
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