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Water, Marathwada women’s woe: No brides for farmers as families look for city matches -Himanshu Nitnaware

-Down to Earth Access to water, better infra drive marriage prospects as women yearn for more 'comfortable' lives Floods, droughts, floods again — Marathwada farmers have suffered at the hands of extreme weather events for decades. Their economic standings have taken a beating too, which has led to a unique problem: The chances of men from the affected villages getting married has started to thin.   Years of droughts and erratic rains have heavily...

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Disparity among States in facilities for eye donation -Bindu Shajan Perappadan

-The Hindu RTI data show that no cornea was collected in some States in 2021-22; Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh fare better; nearly 4.8 million are visually challenged in India Despite Central Government’s emphasis on improving eye-donations across the country—Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, some States of North-East and Island States— have had zero cornea collection in 2021-22 so far as per data procured THRough RTI. The data from 2016 onwards...

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Heavy rains in India damage key crops ahead of harvest, THReatening to stoke food inflation -Rajendra Jadhav

-Reuters/ThePrint.in State like UP has received 500% more rainfall than normal so far in October. Higher food prices could prompt India to slap additional restrictions on exports of food commodities. Mumbai: Heavy rainfall in India has damaged key summer-sown crops such as rice, soybean, cotton, pulses and vegetables just before harvesting, which could stoke food inflation in Asia’s third biggest economy, farmers, traders and industry officials said. Higher food prices could prompt New...

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Deaths in the Gambia: Cloud over quality of Indian pharma products -PT Jyothi Datta

-The Hindu Business Line Experts say authorities will need to probe and take quick action, in the interest of keeping the faith in medicine exports from India The death of 66 children in Gambia, potentially-linked to four cough and cold syrups made in India by Maiden Pharmaceuticals, has brought up the quality question, again. How did an allegedly contaminated product slip THRough the regulatory cracks, casting a long shadow on the Indian...

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Clean swipe for MGNREGS attendance app only in 8 States -Sobhana K. Nair

-The Hindu To ensure transparency, the Union Government had made it mandatory for all State Governments to use the mobile application to record attendance of workers Five months after the Union Government's order making it mandatory to capture attendance of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers THRough government mobile application-National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) at work sites where 20 or more workers are employed, at least THRee States —...

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