-The Business Standard UN report shows holes in govt's food security proposal The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has worked out the cost of malnutrition to the world economy: about five per cent of its annual gross domestic product, or $3.5 trillion, in terms of foregone production and health expenditure. Even more important is the FAO's assessment of potential gains from investment in enhancing the nutritional standards of the population....

-Child In Need Institute (CINI) An estimated forty per cent of the world's severely malnourished children under five live in India. This is a shameful stain on a country that, with China, will be one of the great economic powerhouses of the coming century. India has made huge strides in the past decades in warding off the spectre of famine. The Green Revolution should have gone a long way to tackling child malnutrition,...

-Outlook The oasis UPA is supposed to have brought Pakur is a mirage UPA Divertissement Ad claims refurbished pond in Hiranpur block has promoted communal amity through ‘social and religious events'. Locals say no such events have held. Locals dissatisfied with the siphon irrigation system praised in the ad have damaged it repeatedly In fact, local administration is worried about a law and order situation if it files...

-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister NaveenPatnaik on Tuesday distributed 5,000 mobile phones to farmers saying that the instrument would help them plan Farming, track market price of various agricultural produce and weather. Officials said IIT-Kanpur had provided the multi-application technological support using which farmers can get the required information through voice call and SMS in local language. "Information will be obtained free and the recurring mobile call expenses, whatever, would...

-Outlook As the Manmohan Singh government makes evident its unfriendliness to villages, the nation hurtles towards disaster. It's a danger no one wants to face. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been trying for years to make us believe that agriculture is a vast marshland in which a huge population is stuck ankle- to neck-deep and it is his duty to rescue them. "Our salvation lies in moving people out of agriculture," he...