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UN official underlines link between food security and climate change

-The United Nations    Ensuring global food security while striving to save the Planet from damage are the greatest challenges of this century, a senior United Nations official said today, stressing the need to enable smallholder farmers to become more resilient to climate change and to produce more food in ways that are environmentally sustainable. “There is no trade-off between feeding people and saving our Planet,” said Kanayo F. Nwanze, the President of...

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Some States fight the trend but.…by P Sainath

Five States did manage a significant decline in the average number of farm suicides between 2003 and 2010. However, more States have reported increases over the same period. The television story was genuine and sensitive. At least 90 farmers, it said, had committed suicide in two months in Andhra Pradesh. These were cotton growers. Actually, last year, Andhra farmers killed themselves at the rate of 210 each month on average, according...

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Teachers thank CM for notifying RTE Act

-The Hindu   Step paves way for providing quality and compulsory education to all children of school-going age The Tamil Nadu Elementary School Teachers' Federation (TNESTF) has thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for notifying enforcement of the Right to Education Act, thereby paving way for providing quality and compulsory education for all children of school-going age. Federation General Secretary N. Rengarajan and president K.Kamaraj expressed happiness over the State being in the forefront to implement...

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Ramanujan essay dropped to save PM another headache? by Neha Pushkarna

October 9 was a Sunday. An unusual day to call an emergency meeting of Delhi University's academic council. The main agenda was fairly routine stuff: approval of certain courses. However, tucked away as supplementary agenda was a proposal to do away with A K Ramanujan's essay, 'Three Hundred Ramayanas' from the history course - a proposal that was passed, triggering one of the fiercest debates in recent times in the academic...

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Centre makes fresh bid to woo states on retail FDI by Sidhartha

The commerce & industry ministry has decided to make fresh efforts to get state governments on board on the issue of allowing foreign direct investment ( FDI) in retail trading. In addition, commerce & industry minister Anand Sharma is also expected to meet trade and farmer bodies over the next few days in a bid to garner their support for the controversial move.  Officials said industry secretary P K Chaudhery is...

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