-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would lay down comprehensive guidelines to protect inter-faith, inter-caste and intra-gotra couples whose marriages are opposed by society in the name of tradition. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud reserved its verdict on an eight-year-old PIL filed by NGO ‘Shakti Vahini’ protesting against the violence unleashed against couples who...
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When women stopped eating leftovers -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India There is a saying in Harendragarh, a tribal village 50 km from Rajasthan’s Banswara town, that if a man eats the last rotla (chapatti) he will fall ill. So by default the last rotla, thinner than the rest and made from leftover dough along with the stale remains of the dal or vegetable made that day, would land on the plate of the woman of the house....
More »Midday meal split call to beat hunger -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A pilot study on the midday meal scheme has recommended splitting it into light snacks and a light meal because it found that 70 per cent children in government schools were coming to class on an empty stomach and failing to focus on studies. The study, conducted by the NGO Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute in the Sohawal and Masauda blocks of Faizabad district in Uttar Pradesh, reported that...
More »CSE cries foul, accuses poultry farms of misusing its data
-The Hindu Business Line NGO says antibiotic misuse has made these farms breeding grounds for superbugs New Delhi: New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Tuesday accused the domestic poultry industry of twisting facts from one of its earlier studies to show that chicken produced in the country was safe for consumption. Terming it a “complete misrepresentation”, CSE strongly objected to the way results of a 2014 study were...
More »Lokpal selection meet on March 1
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A committee headed by the Prime Minister will meet on March 1 to process the names to be considered for the country's first Lokpal, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday. The committee will include the Chief Justice of India, the Lok Sabha Speaker and the leader of the single largest Opposition party in the Lower House, attorney-general K.K. Venugopal told a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi...
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