-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government's efforts to promote 'khadi' are facing a trademark hurdle with the brand having been registered abroad, in countries such as Germany, as well as in India. After haldi and basmati, this is the latest instance of infringement of intellectual property rights, which is essentially traditional knowledge. What makes the task more difficult for the government is that 'khaddar' and 'khadi' are common across the...
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IMA to Provide Free Medical Facilities in Adopted Villages
-Outlook Kanpur: Indian Medical Association (IMA) will be providing free medical facilities and create awareness about good health practices in the villages adopted by it under the 'Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana'. "We have been directed by the IMA headquarters to adopt villages here which will be visited by a team of doctors once in a month. "Free medical facilities will be provided to the villagers and a cleanliness campaign will be launched to...
More »Sunita Narain out of PM’s climate change panel -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday recast the almost defunct Prime Minister's council on climate change, a move seen as an effort to handle climate issues pro-actively from the top. The revamped body is to meet soon to take key policy decisions ahead of the Lima climate conference next month. Environmentalist Sunita Narain has been dropped from the body - an apparent reflection of the Centre's discomfiture with...
More »Banking on a flimsy promise -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The government is clueless about incentives it has promised under its Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana to bring every family under the formal banking system ON AUGUST 15, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced extending the financial inclusion plan of the former UPA government and renamed it Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), he was well aware of its limitations. Though launched in 2010, the plan had miserably failed...
More »Food Corporation of India in need of restructuring as corruption mars operations -Prabhudatta Mishra and Pratik Parija
-Livemint India is closer to breaking up FCI as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat New Delhi: India is closer to breaking up Food Corporation of India (FCI), an agency at the heart of the world's largest public food distribution programme for the poor, as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat. "Private companies should buy, store and distribute the grains as much...
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