-The Telegraph Hazaribagh: A 40-year-old mother of two died of starvation at Hazaribagh Sadar Hospital this morning, two days after her daughter died of the same reason at their village home 7km from district headquarters, in a country where National Food Security Bill, 2013, received Presidential assent on September 10. Despite so-called safety nets - existing flagship welfare provisions such as BPL card, MGNREGS and a host of other subsidy, pension, assistance,...
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KV Thomas promises transparency in PDS
-The Hindu Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said that thrust will be given in developing additional storage capacity in the State for food grains in view of the implementation of the Food Security Bill. He was speaking at a ‘Meet-the-Press' programme here on Wednesday. The Minister said that two new godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) with 5,000 tonnes capacity...
More »Idli emerges bestseller at Amma canteen -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: The simple yet nutritious idli is the fastest selling item on the menu at the Amma canteens. Since February, 4.6 crore idlis have been sold here. But the taste of success might just be embittered by financial burden on the corporation. Sources said the civic body loses 86 paise per idli, which is sold for 1 in the canteens. So, if the civic body sold 4.6 crore...
More »Clean energy can light up lives-Sandip Verma
-The Hindu Biomass cookstoves and solar lighting improve the health of women and are creating business models that empower them Around the world three billion people have no access to modern cooking fuels. They depend mostly on direct burning of solid biomass for cooking and heating. The smoke from these rudimentary stoves causes some four million deaths annually, destroys millions of tonnes of crops and leads to global warming and large-scale regional...
More »Rural Development Ministry to join hands with defence body for bio-toilets
-PTI GWALIOR: Rural Development Ministry would join hands with a leading defence research organisation to push eco-friendly bio-toilets in villages in four states where the menace of open defecation remained unaddressed. Impressed by the achievement of the Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) in developing low cost bio-toilets, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said that members of Women Self Help Groups from Bihar, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh would be...
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