-The Times of India AURANGABAD: Over 350 like-minded organizations are set to launch a nation-wide agitation from Monday to protest against the contentious Land Acquisition Bill. Social activist Medha Patkar made the announcement in the city while addressing a gathering of farmers. She said organizations of farmers, traders and fishermen would stage demonstration in different parts of the country and mount pressure on the Union government to stop it from going...
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Urban homes emit more greenhouse gases than industry -Vinayashree Jagadeesh
-The Times of India CHENNAI: The industrial sector has been taking the flak for emitting high levels of hazardous gases over the years but it might ultimately be our homes that are responsible for the highest emission of greenhouse gases. A recently published study conducted by the Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, found that the domestic sector was one of the highest contributing factors to greenhouse...
More »How not to treat agriculture -Jayati Ghosh
-Frontline If Budget 2015 is any indication, the Modi government is going beyond what could be calLED benign neglect of agriculture to policy moves that are likely to harm its viability. IT is scarcely surprising that farmers are upset with the Narendra Modi government. Indeed, the rosy dreams created by that famous campaign advertisement of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), when farmers spoke of the high crop prices and better cultivation conditions...
More »Scam stains famed Chhattisgarh PDS, systemic loot runs into crores -Parivesh Mishra
-FirstPost.com Raipur: Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aggressive pitch for growth and denouncement of the policy of handouts in the pre-general election campaign last year, Chhattisgarh's model of Public Distribution System (PDS) stood out as a shining and welcome misfit. The BJP showcased Chief Minister Raman Singh model of PDS as its answer to the Congress' Food Security Act. Besides the Gujarat model, this was the only model that found mention...
More »Shiv Sena takes on its own government -Alok Deshpande
-The Hindu Ratnagiri (Maharashtra): The Shiv Sena held a protest march here on Thursday outside the office of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), which is implementing the proposed 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). Despite being a part of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-LED coalition at the Centre and in the State, the Sena has repeatedly said that it would not let the project go ahead as long as...
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