-The Business Standard The Monsanto- sponsored trip for BJP and Shiv Sena MPs comes soon after a ban on field trials for 15 GM crops Three weeks after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) overruled field trials for 15 genetically modified (GM) crops, a group of members of Parliament from BJP and the Shiv Sena are heading to the US on a week-long study tour sponsored by global seed giant, Monsanto. The group...
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Focus on usage, not construction -Yamini Aiyar and Avani Kapur
-Live Mint Sanitation in India has come a long way from being no one's priority to a politically salient issue Our politicians are finally talking toilets. From former minister Jairam Ramesh's infamous statement that India needed more toilets than temples to becoming a campaign issue in the recent elections, sanitation in India has come a long way from being no one's priority to a politically salient issue. On becoming Prime Minister, Narendra...
More »Domino effect of poor monsoon -Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu A welter of problems may be in store for the country These are testing times for the Narendra Modi government in the farm and food sector: the south-west (June-September) monsoon is delayed, deficient and weak; kharif sowing, much of which is rain-fed, is lagging by over 17 per cent over last year; rising food prices are pushing up inflation and pulling down growth. Right now the prices of only perishable...
More »UP drops laptops for toilets
-The Telegraph Lucknow: Akhilesh Yadav has wrapped up his free laptop scheme and instead pledged funds for building toilets and upgrading the police force in the state budget unveiled today. "We have kept our poll promise and distributed laptops in the first phase of our programme. The stress in this budget is infrastructure and rural development," said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, under pressure after his party slipped from 21 seats in...
More »UN watchdog accuses India of 'dereliction of duty' over rapes
-AFP GENEVA: Indian law enforcement and justice authorities have shirked their responsibility to fight sex attacks, a UN child rights watchdog said on Thursday, amid uproar over the horrific gang-rape and lynching of two girls. "There has been a dereliction of duty in relation to rape cases," said Benyam Mezmur, deputy chairman of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. India has been struggling to overcome its reputation for sexual violence...
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