-Outlook.com The obligation of the police is not only to control crime and maintain peace but to do in an unbiased and even-handed manner, writes Vipul Mudgal A disturbing temPLAte of policing is emerging in India: one of selective and disproportionate action against some, deliberate inaction against others and collusion with a section of troublemakers. All these at the cost of neutrality and fair PLAy. If there is something ominous about the...

-PTI * Oxfam said the combined total wealth of 63 Indian billionaires is higher than the total Union Budget of India for the fiscal year 2018-19 * The report flagged that global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast and the number of billionaires has doubled in the last decade Davos: India's richest 1 per cent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70...

-The Hindu They are homemakers and grandmothers, doctors and lawyers, students and teachers. They are all women and they have come out of their homes in massive numbers to protest the CAA. It’s our country, they say. It’s our children’s country. And nobody can take that away from us Women. Suddenly, they are visible. Great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, teenagers, baby girls. They have slowly but surely reclaimed a corner of a public ground...

-Down to Earth Govt policy think tank asks chief secretaries to extract nutrients from human excreta and use them in PLAce of fertilsers Explore the possibility of extracting essential nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium and carbon from human excreta and rePLAce fertilisers used in agriculture with them, the Niti Ayog has advised all states. Faecal sludge is a rich source of nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K), the three essential nutrients used...

-The Indian Express Area under paddy stubble burning in Punjab up despite number of machines almost doubling. Jalandhar: Punjab farmers have sown 4.50 lakh hectares (lh) wheat area this time using Happy Seeders. This is nearly 13% of the total 35.08 lh PLAnted under the rabi cereal crop in the state. Not bad, it would seem, for a relatively new technology, which allows wheat to be directly seeded in combine-harvested paddy fields...