-The Hindu Business Line The Budget outlay apart, an ambience of autonomy and a focus on soft skills are just as important The Budget identifies education as one of the key pillars of its agenda. It offers support on three dimensions — reach, infrastructure, and quality in higher education. Extend reach: The Budget aims to extend the reach of education. At the post-secondary level, it focuses on expanding skill development (by scaling up...
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Use public sector lands for Make in India-like businesses, suggests Economic Survey -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth It also recommends the use of public lands for start-ups and industrial clusters The Economic Survey tabled on Friday has suggested that lands occupied by the public sector be converted for use by businesses under campaigns launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi such as “Make in India” and “Smart City”. The second chapter of the survey (volume 1)—The Chakravyuha Challenge of the Indian Economy—makes a case for utilising publicly-owned land...
More »Art of Living event along Yamuna’s floodplain creates controversy -Ritam Halder
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: It may sound ironical for a city that has already ‘killed’ its only source of water and fighting with the neighbours for uninterrupted water supply, but a construction exercise of gigantic proportions is on along the Yamuna floodplains, which green activists say threatens the river’s ecology. Huge machines have cleared over 1,000 acres where tents, hutments, pontoon bridges and a gigantic 7-acre stage is coming up to host...
More »'Villain' shrub may yield drought-resistant rice -Ekatha Ann John
-The Times of India Chennai: For long, they were dubbed as the villain among vegetation, sucking all the water from ground, spreading rapidly along the coast and degrading the environment. More than a century after Prosopis juliflora, a shrub, was introduced in Indian soil by the British, scientists are now trying to use its genes to engineer rice varieties that can withstand water scarcity. After coming up with rice grains that are...
More »50% of girls sexually harassed on way to school, 32% stalked: Study -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India Half of girls are subject to various forms of sexual harassment like leering, pinching and groping while travelling to and from school while 32% are followed on their way to school or college, reports Himanshi Dhawan. A 2014 study by NGO 'Breakthrough' on 900 young girls and boys in six states revealed that 52% of students experienced leering and staring followed by touching, pinching and groping. Girls...
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