-IPA Service Soya bean damage leads to more woes There was a time when Madhya Pradesh was known as "Soya Pradesh". But from this year Madhya Pradesh will cease to be so. Similarly Madhya Pradesh was a leading state for production of all types of pulses. But at present the state is facing severe scarcity of Pulses. Soya crops have been ruined, this fact has been accepted by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh...
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Unleashing India’s Stree Shakti: Empowering economic contribution of Indian women -Bhairavi Jani
-DNA If we observe closely, the women entrepreneurs who run a variety of local small businesses are drivers of the local economy in many ways. Never ending stretches of backwaters and lush green coconut groves welcome you as you drive through the southern Indian state of Kerala. It is the only state in India where the sex ratio is of 1084 females per 1000 males. At 92%, Kerala has one of...
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-Outlook Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) today said 93 per cent of adults in India voluntarily possess Aadhaar number as per a recent finding. "In a recent update, it is found that 93 per cent of the adult residents in India voluntarily possess Unique Identity – Aadhaar," UIDAI said in a press statement. In UIDAI assigned states/UTs, Aadhaar saturation among adult population is 98 per cent while in Registrar General of India...
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-The Hindu Business Line Nine years after a landmark law empowering local communities, thousands of forest villages across India struggle to regain their traditional rights over resources and livelihoods Sundar Singh Rabha always carries a certain file folder. He holds it against himself in a hot tin car as it jangles along forest roads towards village Shalkumar, in a northern corner of West Bengal. His phone rings without respite. Every few minutes,...
More »Karva Chauth Capitalism -Mohan Rao
-The Times of India There has been a steady decline in India's overall sex ratio (SR) over the 20th century. The 1975 Report of the Committee of the Status of Women drew attention to the fact that while the 1901 census showed 972 females per thousand males, this had declined steadily to 946 in 1951, 941 in 1961, and 930 in 1971. The 1981 census, however, threw up a happy figure of...
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