-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India may have reduced extreme poverty far more effectively than most of us are aware of. The last official data is eight years old. In 2011, 268 million people were surviving on less than $1.90 a day, the World Bank MEAsure for extreme poverty. The next round of data on household consumption is likely to come out in June, and it may well show a...
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Women who eat MEAt less prone to disease: study -Astha Saxena
-The Indian Express Results show that women from Kashmir who consumed up to five non-vegetarian MEAls a week were found to be at a lesser risk of these diseases irrespective of whether they were suffering from PCOS or were healthy, in comparison to women in Delhi who followed a vegetarian diet. New Delhi: A joint study by doctors at AIIMS, Delhi, and Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) on dietary habits...
More »Medical report on food consumption evades issues of choice and equality
-The Telegraph The world can move towards MEAningful health only when dietary interventions and models are made more representative The way to the heart is, apparently, through the stomach. Would that, then, MEAn that food habits all over the world have to change, given that cardiovascular diseases — the result of an unhealthy diet — are a leading cause of death around the globe? The findings of a report compiled by a...
More »Farm loan waiver: Majority and poorest farmers do not benefit-a status check -Prasanna Mohanty
-BusinessToday.in There is, however, no silver bullet solution to agrarian distress. It needs long-term planning and multi-pronged strategy. Agrarian distress has come to the centre stage of national discourse primarily because of last year's multiple farmers' marches and the electoral outcomes in the three Hindi heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. This augurs well for a sector which provides 49% of total employment and supports nearly 70% of population but...
More »Supreme Court refuses to stay amendments to SC/ ST Act -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu The Act nullified the controversial March 20 apex court judgment diluting the stringent provisions of the Dalit protection law. The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act of 2018, which nullified the controversial March 20 apex court judgment diluting the stringent provisions of the Dalit protection law. The government had brought in the amendments, saying the Scheduled Castes and...
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