-101reporters.com Kala Jeera rice cultivation and its marketing through an e-commerce platform bring better INCome and social status to women farmers, while also ensuring storage of good quality seeds for future needs Koraput, Odisha: Odisha’s near-extINCt Kala Jeera rice is making a comeback, thanks to the tribal women who are cultivating and marketing it to the outside world from Machhara village in Koraput district with the help of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation...
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Gujarat High Court asks how Morbi bridge work was awarded without a tender -Mahesh Langa
-The Hindu ‘This (2008) agreement is one-and-a-quarter pages, absolutely without any conditions...by way of an understanding, largesse of the State for ten years, and no tenders floated, no Expression of Interest,’ notes Division Bench The Gujarat High Court on November 15, 2022 asked how the Morbi bridge’s repair work was awarded to the Oreva Group without a tender, while hearing a suo motu petition on the colonial era bridge collapse tragedy in...
More »One In Every Three Farmers in Telangana is a Tenant, Finds New Survey -G Ram Mohan
-TheWire.in The survey also provided an insight into the socio-economic conditions of the tenant farmers, finding that a majority of them are OBCs and Dalits. Hyderabad: A field study by the Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) has made several revelations about the conditions of farmers in Telangana, INCluding that one in every three farmers is a tenant farmer. The findings of the first-of-its-kind survey done in Telangana after its formation in 2014, run contrary...
More »India’s Urban Infrastructure Needs to Cross $840 Billion Over Next 15 Years: New World Bank Report -
-Press release by World Bank dated November 14, 2022 NEW DELHI: A new World Bank report estimates that India will need to invest $840 billion over the next 15 years—or an average of $55 billion per annum—into urban infrastructure if it is to effectively meet the needs of its fast-growing urban population. The report, titled “Financing India’s Urban Infrastructure Needs: Constraints to Commercial Financing and Prospects for Policy Action” underlines the...
More »COVID-19: Over 5 Lakh People in India Missed or Delayed TB Diagnosis in 2020
-PTI/ Newsclick.in Globally, over 1.5 million people in 45 high-burden countries missed or delayed tuberculosis diagnosis in the first year of the pandemic, says study. New Delhi: Over five lakh people in India are estimated to have had a missed or delayed tuberculosis diagnosis in 2020 due to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study. The researchers found that over 1.5 million people in 45 high-burden countries had a...
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