-The Times of India It is common — and natural — to think of diseases in terms of death. Often, diseases are measured by death — so many people die of heart attacks, so many of dengue, etc. While this is important, there is another dimension not measured by body counts. It is the scale of suffering and pain felt by people who live with diseases. Talk to any middle class...
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Herd Mentality -Himanshu Upadhyaya
-CaravanMagazine.in How political rhetoric has drowned out the economic realities of cattle-slaughter bans In mid August, news broke that more than 200 cows had starved to death in a shelter in Chhattisgarh owned by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader named Harish Verma. After the reports appeared, Verma protested that he had not received funds that the government had promised him for the shelter. But the Irony could not have been starker. The BJP...
More »Small firms flounder post demonetisation, on GST: RBI study
-The Indian Express The RBI which studied the results of 2,726 non-government and non-financial companies said the overall EBIDTA of these corporate showed a 0.2 per cent increase. However, net profit declined by 6.9 per cent even as sales improved by 7.2 per cent. Mumbai: Small companies are finding the going tough with sales and profits taking a big beating in the wake of demonetisation and implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST)....
More »44 per cent women are energy deficient
-Deccan Chronicle The survey has revealed that boys are excessively thin and undernourished during their teenage years as compared to girls. Hyderabad: According to the Urban Nutrition Report which was released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Nutrition, 34 per cent of urban men and 44 percent of urban women suffer from a chronic deficiency of energy. This deficiency is observed in overweight as well as undernourished individuals. The survey has revealed...
More »Solving food challenges with more research -MS Swaminathan and Jean Lebel
-The Hindu Linking agricultural and nutritional outcomes is crucial The world’s population is booming. According to estimates, the global population is likely to exceed 9 billion by 2050, with 5 billion people in Asia alone. The capacity to produce enough quality food is falling behind human numbers. Food production in the region must keep pace, even as envIronment sustainability and economic development are ensured. The answer to these challenges lies in research...
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