-The Times of India NEW delhi: The poor mental health of many inmates of child rehabilitation institutions in delhi has always been known. But it is only now that there are actual figures to show the extent of a brewing crisis as the children grow older. The data has been collated by the psychiatry department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, based on its assessment of 414 children living in...
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Farm, Fractured -V Kumara Swamy
-The Telegraph As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to mark his fourth anniversary in power, V. Kumara Swamy takes stock of how hollow his promises to farmers have been. Will there be a price to pay? Hemant Patidar, a farmer, has been camping at the Mandsaur mandi in Madhya Pradesh with 15 quintals of “good quality” garlic for more than a week now. The price has been on a downslide for the...
More »No horn, please: How street noise is hurting our health -Sanchita Sharma
-Hindustan Times Revving motors, ceaseless honking, blaring music are taking a toll on those who live or work around busy roads. New delhi: Dust mixed with toxic fumes from vehicular exhausts exacerbate lung and heart diseases and trigger death from heart attack, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung infections like pneumonia, and cancers of the lung and respiratory tract. What is less known is that traffic noise adds to this incessant vehicular assault...
More »By 2035, delhi will be almost Mumbai + Kolkata
-The Times of India NEW delhi: delhi will overtake Tokyo as the world’s largest urban agglomeration by 2030 and have a population of 43.3 million by 2035, according to a UN report. The same report also predicts that over half of India’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. In 2015, the delhi urban agglomeration — which includes the capital and its contiguous satellite towns — had an estimated population...
More »Pulses import falls by 1million tonnes in FY18
-The Economic Times NEW delhi: The agriculture ministry on Wednesday said that farmer-friendly policy measures have helped reduce import of pulses, wheat and edible oils. Import of pulses declined by 10 lakh tonnes from FY17 to 56.5 lakh tonnes in 2017-18, resulting in saving of foreign exchange amounting to Rs 9,775 crore, the ministry said in a statement. As per the government’s third advance estimate, output of pulses — largely gram, urad and...
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