-TheWire.in New Delhi: As an expression of resentment against vegetarian Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s insistence to not allow serving of eggs in mid-day meals across the State since he considers it a ‘sentimental issue’, the Sahariya children of Shirpura village in Shivpuri district were on Friday afternoon served eggs along with khichri through village contributions. For a large number of children who turned up to get a boiled egg...
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Bio slurry pellet method of rice cultivation to increase production -EM Manoj
-The Hindu WAYANAD (KERALA): All the farmers, especially the farmers in the modern generation are interested in adopting innovative techniques to increase the production of their crops or to reduce the cost of production. For which either they follow the advise of agriculture experts or simply emulate the agriculture practices of the progressive farmers in their area. Though many among them will try to to develop their own techniques but, very few...
More »Curious case of missing RTI commissioners -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: The Right to Information (RTI) is turning into an increasingly opaque idea as more posts of the information commissioner are falling vacant. Vacancies for the post in the country increased from 14% in 2014 to 20% in 2015, reveals a nation-wide study conducted by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an NGO. According to the report, the number of information commissioners in the country has been reduced from 120...
More »Nudge to tweak TB treatment rules -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India could prevent on average 18,000 people from developing multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis every year over the next decade if the health ministry accelerates proposed changes in TB diagnosis and treatment policies, public health experts have said. A study by the health ministry's TB division has estimated that India could avert 180,000 cases of MDR-TB between 2015 and 2025 if most patients who seek government treatment are tested for MDR-TB...
More »Lo and behold! Maharashtra's Rs 4,845 crore irrigation project without water -Yogesh Pawar
-DNA Mumbai: What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of an irrigation project? Water? Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case with the Union Union Ministry for Forests, Environment & Climate Change (MoEF). How else would it have cleared the the Rs 4,845 crore, 23.66 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) Krishna Marathwada Lift Irrigation Scheme (KMLIS) without water availability? The environmental clearance given on 24th June...
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