-The Telegraph Shillong: Rural areas in the Northeast have recorded a high percentage of unmarried people while the percentage of women-headed households is a little above the national average. According to the provisional data of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census, 2011, the percentage of people in rural Northeast who have "never married" is 47.42 per cent against the national average of 41.64 per cent. Among the northeastern states, including Sikkim, Nagaland has the...
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Poor Bear the Brunt of Corruption in India’s Food Distribution System -Neeta Lal
-IPSNews.net NEW DELHI: Chottey Lal, 43, a daily wage labourer at a construction site in NOIDA, a township in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beleaguered man. After a gruelling 12-hour daily shift at the dusty location, he and his wife Subha make barely enough to feed a family of seven. Nor is the couple ever able to procure the subsidized rations they are legally entitled to, under a...
More »Farming in India: The past keeps its grip
-Deccan Herald Many of India's agricultural practices have barely changed in decades. Reform is long overdue. Nearly a quarter of a century after India launched its first big liberalising reforms in 1991, setting off a new spurt of growth, one area of the country’s economy remains hardly touched: farming. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a 24-hour, state-run television channel for farmers in May, but has fostered no public debate about how to improve...
More »Kharif sowing set for a boost as monsoon spreads wings
-The Financial Express With Delhi and its adjoining areas receiving moderate to heavy pre-monsoon showers and the southwest winds active over Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand, the planting of key kharif crops, such as paddy, pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane and cotton, is set to get a boost. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said monsoon was expected to hit Northern states over the next few days. “The conditions are favourable for...
More »Rapid warming of Indian Ocean weakening the monsoon, may impact agriculture and financial sectors: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The rapid warming in the Indian Ocean is weakening the monsoon, particularly over central India where agriculture is still mostly rain-fed, a study by meteorologists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology shows. The weakening trend in summer rainfall during 1901-2012 was also observed over the centraleast and northern regions of India, along the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins and the Himalayan foothills. This will include states of Uttar Pradesh,...
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