-Deccan Herald Children to get foodgrain, cooking cost as per FSA New Delhi: Schoolchildren may soon be entitled to supply of foodgrain along with cooking cost in case the midday meal is not served, with the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry finalising modalities for giving them food security allowance, mandatory under the Food Security Act. At a national level consultation held by the ministry in Meghalaya recently on preparation of rules for granting...
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Across states, India’s food safety labs are ill-equipped and understaffed
-The Indian Express With the spotlight on packaged foods’ failure to clear safety tests, The Indian Express samples 11 states and finds out how ill-equipped and understaffed their labs are. For a processed food market estimated at Rs 7.34 lakh crore by the Annual Survey of Industries, 72 state labs and 68 private ones with National Accrediation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accreditation are conducting tests in India’s 640...
More »Flood situation worsens in Assam, Brahmaputra flowing above danger level -Prabin Kalita
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam worsened on Thursday following incessant rains in the state and upper reaches of Brahmaputra river in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. The Central Water Commission (CWC) has issued an alert after the water level of Brahmaputra river crossed the warning level mark in Guwahati. According to the CWC, the Brahmaputra river was flowing at least 0.20 metres above the warning level mark of 48.68...
More »Do April conditions in the Pacific Ocean point to a decisive El Nino this year? -Vinson Kurian
-The Hindu Business Line Probably yes, says Chennai blogger tracking weather from 1950 Thiruvananthapuram: When does an El Nino (warming of the east and equatorial Pacific) create widespread rain deficit over India during the monsoon? K Srikanth, Chennai-based blogger and weather enthusiast, has found from a study that between 1950 and 2012, five years have seen 50 per cent or more meteorological divisions suffer deficit rainfall. Carry-over nino “If one observes the pattern, these years...
More »Married women head 4% of families -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India Among those currently married, barely 4% of all households are headed by women. In sharp contrast, women-headed households constitute nearly three-fourths of those headed by a widowed person, about two-thirds of those headed by separated people and about 60% among those who are divorced. Given the fact that women vastly outnumber men in each of these three categories, that's not surprising. Among the larger states, the proportion of...
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