-The Hindu People of the region are not used to eating the new mixture KALABURAGI (Karnataka): The Karnataka Rajya Anganwadi Noukarara Sangha has demanded that the State government roll back its decision to change nutrient food mixture provided to inmates of anganwadis and to pregnant women in villages and resume providing local nutrient food mixture as earlier to overcome the problem of under nourishment of children and pregnant women. District president of sangha...

-The Hindu Among other things, the government must work towards giving life to the National Health Policy Even as millions of Indians wish each other health, happiness and hope in the new year, they also await news on the new National Health Policy which will become the GPS in our journey towards better health. The draft policy, which was framed by the Union Health Ministry, was placed for public comment just over...

-Livemint.com Accountability Yatra aims to cover all 33 districts of Rajasthan in 100 days, and to mobilize people join in and put pressure on the state government to bring in an accountability law Santosh Devi and Raju Devi of Raniwara in Jalore district of Rajasthan are from the Bhil tribal community. They are widows of the same man and live with their grandchild. Earnings are meagre here—every time the postman brought pension...

-Economic and Political Weekly India plays a poor hand at the World Trade Organization's negotiations. The idea that there is no longer a sharp divide between the global North and the global South has been disproved in ample measure by the decisions taken last month in Nairobi at the 10th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The essence of the final communique is that the 14-year-old Doha “Development” Agenda (DDA)...

-The Hindu Business Line Says more responses on ‘Free Basics’ than actual Consultation Paper The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been stumped by the nature of responses it received on its discussion for ‘Differential Pricing for Data Services’. Rather than expressing views around ‘differential pricing for data Services’, majority of the responses have centred around comments on Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’ campaign for free internet for all. Not satisfied with such ‘invalid’ answers,...