-The Business Standard/ Agencies 1,500 villages under water; Assam, Bihar too affected Lucknow/ New Delhi: Floods triggered by heavy rains in the Himalayas have inundated nearly 1,500 villages in Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 28 people and leaving thousands homeless, officials said on Sunday. Thousands were marooned in villages across nine districts of Uttar Pradesh, where the release of water from overflowing dams in neighbouring Nepal has added to the impact of the...
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Plan panel’s tale of faiLED reform bids -Charu Sudan Kasturi
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to dismantle the Planning Commission has LED to revelations from some of the body's former stalwarts about past attempts to reform the Soviet-era institution that were repeatedly thwarted, culminating in a tense farewell for Manmohan Singh last May. The panel that has steered India's economic management and vision for 64 years without any constitutional mandate has needed radical surgeries for years but was...
More »India's shifting food bowls -Ravish Tiwari
-India Today Geography of rice and wheat has been transformed with Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh generating surpluses Almost 50 years ago, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri went on air to appeal to Indians to skip a meal a day. Foodgrain supplies had come under strain after the 1965 drought, and the patriotic ethos cautioned against over-consumption: what you ate left that much less for the rest. Today, it is...
More »NHRC, Bengal lock horns over tea garden deaths
-The Hindu Kolkata: A controversy erupted here on Tuesday over a notice issued by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the West Bengal Government citing a media report which claims that "nearly 1000 people have died due to malnutrition in three closed tea gardens in Jalpaiguri district and two in Alipurduar district". A press release issued by the NHRC on Monday stated that the Commission has "taken suo motu cognizance" and...
More »Lifting the curse of child malnutrition from Bidar -Pushpa Achanta
-Women's Feature Service In 2000, countries around the world pLEDged to fulfill the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight time-bound targets to eradicate poverty and hunger and uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity. India, which is ranked 63 out of 81 countries on the Global Hunger Index, has been working towards finding workable solutions to a problem that especially affects children between 0 to 5...
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