-The Business Standard Much before the unfortunate incident in Bihar took place, that claimed the lives of 23 children after consuming the mid day meal at their School, WB govt had asked 6 institutions to review the MDM program Kolkata: Much before the tragic incident took place in Bihar School that claimed 23 children's lives after consuming the mid day meal in School, the West Bengal the government had asked six...

-The Telegraph Ranchi: If cronyism and callousness led to the Bihar midday meal tragedy earlier this month, Jharkhand is staring at a credit crisis that is barely able to put food on plates in Schools and anganwadis. Jharkhand's multi-crore food-for-children schemes - midday meal for Schools and supplementary nutrition for anganwadis - are starved of funds and limping on credit, a survey conducted by the state adviser to the commissioner of Supreme...

-The Business Standard 7 things you should know in the Bhagwati vs Sen slugfest Jagdish Bhagwati and Amartya Sen are the two Indian economists who are most respected for their work. Both have worked on a broad spectrum of issues, though Sen is best known for his work on public choice and development and Bhagwati for his work on trade. They are both liberal, neoclassical economists, who support deregulation and disapprove of...

-The Telegraph The students of the government primary School at Rajiv Nagar continued with the practice of having midday meal sitting on railway tracks on Tuesday, punching a hole in the education department's tall claim on strictly monitoring the food scheme after the death of 23 children in Saran. Seven days after the meal tragedy, the students sat down on the railway line connecting R-Block and Digha in the afternoon to have...

-The Business Standard Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, who has just written An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions with Jean Dreze, tells Mihir S Sharma that he doesn't understand why his book has received an angry reaction, or why he is being called anti-growth and pro-redistribution. * Is it startling to discover that you are being called a licence Raj socialist? It is very strange indeed. Perhaps some of this reaction is...