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Economic logic of setting paddy fields on fire -Sayantan Bera and Shrishti Choudhary

-Livemint.com Since the paddy straw cannot be used as animal feed, farmers set fire to it to get the field ready for the next crop of wheat New Delhi: On a balmy evening last week, Sandeep Singhroha, a farmer from Haryana’s Karnal district, set fire to a pile of paddy stubble with a matchstick and then dragged the pile across his field with a garden fork. Soon, the two-acre plot was up...

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Indu Bhushan -- CEO of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) -- interviewed by Bindu Shajan Perappadan (The Hindu)

-The Hindu The CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana on the challenges and scope of the scheme and responses from the States Indu Bhushan is the CEO of the world’s largest government-funded health insurance scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 23. Until his appointment as CEO of PM-JAY, Mr. Bhushan served as director general for the East Asia...

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Delhi: All efforts lie waste as open burning continues unabated -Paras Singh

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Waste burning near Brahma Apartments in Dwarka’s Sector 7 has necessitated the summoning of the fire brigade several times. But the highly polluting activity refuses to be curbed. Despite the stringent fines imposed by National Green Tribunal, Delhiites refuse to mend their ways and continue to burn leaves and waste. Dwarka residents will gather at the offending spot on Saturday morning to highlight the repercussions...

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In Several UP Villages, Toilets Exist Only on Paper -Kabir Agarwal

-TheWire.in The government claims 99% of Uttar Pradesh is open defecation free, but the ground reality shows this assertion is far from the truth. Lucknow/ Barabanki/ Meerut/ Shamli: Hetampur is a small village of about 1,200 people in central Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district, located 50 kilometres from the state capital Lucknow. The village has been declared open defecation free (ODF) under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). Urmila is a resident of the...

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Host Of Private Companies, Organisations Shut Out Of Aadhaar, But Identity Law Stands -Tish Sanghera & Chaitanya Mallapur

-India Spend Mumbai: Private entities cannot demand Aadhaar data to authenticate identity. Individuals must be allowed to file complaints against the use of their data. Information can be accessed for matters of national security only when a judicial officer such as a sitting High Court judge has sanctioned it.   These were the highlights in a series of landmark rulings by India’s Supreme Court as it ruled against the use of an...

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