-NDTV Bihar: It's been a week since people of Katihar's Labha, a village about 300 kilometers from Patna, has boycotted 45-year-old Mohd Akhtar and his family. Mr Akhtar runs a Fair Price Shop which is responsible for distributing essential grains at subsidised rates under the government's Public Distribution System. A meeting of village elders last week charged Mr Akhtar with fraud. "He never gives us our full quota. Sometimes he gives us...
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Dr. Jayati Ghosh, professor at JNU, interviewed by The Hindu
-The Hindu The AP government should keep the MoUs (with investors) in the public domain. Let there be a debate on the MoUs -- Jayati Ghosh, economist VIJAYAWADA: Noted economist Jayati Ghosh does not agree that civil society has been indifferent to the problems presented to farmers due to the land acquisition tactics adopted by the State Government in gathering land for its capital city project. The academic, who headed a commission that investigated...
More »Rains calm fears of crop loss and food inflation -Madhvi Sally
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The monsoon's topsy-turvy ride this season is poised to end on a positive note as heavy showers have soaked the driest regions of the country, which should calm fears of significant crop loss and food inflation. The monsoon, which is so far 15% below normal, is currently focused on regions where rainfall has been about 40% below average since June. These include parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat...
More »‘Antibiotic addict’ India losing fight against lethal bacteria -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: India is the world's antibiotic popping capital, recording the highest number of such pills consumed annually — 13 billion pills as against 10 billion in China and 7 billion in the US. As a result of such reckless use, deadly strains of life-taking bacteria that are resistant to even the latest generation of antibiotics have been found to be rampant in India. The first State of the World's...
More »Kerala goes organic -Nisha Ponthathil
-Tehelka Tired of importing toxic vegetables from Tamil Nadu, Kerala seems to have started a movement in organic vegetable farming It seems vegetables have taken over from water in the ongoing rift between the south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Having waged a relentless war over the sharing of water from the colonial Mullaperiyar dam for over three decades, the two states have now locked horns over the quality...
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