-PTI The Supreme Court said that the words 'adult male person' were contrary to the object of affording protection to women who have suffered from domestic violence 'of any kind'. New Delhi: In a Landmark verdict, the Supreme Court has widened the scope of the Domestic Violence Act by ordering deletion of the words “adult male” from it, paving the way for prosecution of women and even non-adults for subjecting a woman...
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Key to urbanisation is monetising Land value: NITI Aayog CEO
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The key to urbanisation is the ability to monetise Land value, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. "If you look at the two bordering cities across Delhi - Gurgaon and Noida - they have not been able to monetise Land value and plough it back to develop the cities," Kant said at a session on 'Cities as engines of growth' at the India Economic...
More »Agriculture economics: The next big farm solution - cutting production costs -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express In a scenario of depressed crop prices, a unique PPP model in milk shows the way out. Coimbatore: For roughly a decade from 2004-05 to 2013-14, Indian farmers experienced rising incomes from higher crop prices year after year — something they pretty much took for granted. That party ended with the crash in global commodity prices, hitting agricultural exports hard and translating into lower farm-gate realisations for most crops. But...
More »The salience of the Singur verdict -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A more progressive Central law on Land acquisition is now in place, but several States have already either amended the new law or enacted legislation of their own. On August 31, the Supreme Court in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal delivered one of the most momentous decisions of the year. It invalidated the expropriation of Land in Singur by the erstwhile Left Front government in Bengal, and...
More »Gender equality may help improve food security
-The Hindu Business Line UN study says climate change hits the poor hardest New Delhi: Do women hold the key to dealing with one of the most scorching impacts of climate change — food insecurity. According to a UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs study, titled ‘Climate Change Resilience: An Opportunity for Reducing Inequalities’, eliminating gender inequalities could increase agricultural output by as much as 4 per cent, reducing the number of...
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