-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Government transport in Haryana, Karnataka and Telangana, industrial areas in the National Capital region, hotels in Himachal Pradesh and banks and insurance offices across India may not function on Friday as central trade unions will hit the streets for a general strike. Last year, the trade union’s strike saw an estimated 15 crore workers take the day off. “This year we expect the figures to be higher,” said...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The dengue-chikungunya crisis is severely straining health services in the capital. Top public and private hospitals, flooded with patients, have turned waiting areas, patient lounges and non-emergency wards into fever wards. But the influx of patients is so high that not everyone is being admitted. As per municipal data, 487 dengue and 444 chikungunya cases have been recorded this year. However, major public and private hospitals...

-The Times of India Chandigarh: Indian agriculture must meet the requirements of food security and rapidly diversify itself in the next two decades and there is a need to revision it, said noted economist, chancellor of the Central University of Gujarat and former Union minister professor Yoginder K Alagh on Monday. Professor Alagh delivered the first lecture on the topic of "Future of Indian Agriculture" as the Dr Manmohan Singh Chair Professor...

-The Hindu Business Line Bihar village gives up fertilisers/ pesticides for eco-agriculture On World Environment Day last year — which happened to be one of the hottest summer mornings — as we stood on the main road roughly a kilometre from Kedia village, in the Jamui district of Bihar, we heard loud voices in the distance. Soon we found 50-60 children marching and shouting in unison, ‘Jeevit maati... jeevit khet!’ (alive is the...

-The Hindu An online community is prodding women to adopt eco-friendly methods such as reusable cloth pads and menstrualcups and reverse the reliance on the feminine hygiene product Remember the popular sanitary napkin advertisement that urged menstruating women to “touch the pickle”? While ad campaigns in the 1990s had a role in breaking certain taboos around menstruation, they also pushed a whole generation of adolescents into adopting sanitary napkins. Sanitary waste has...