-Livemint.com Arguments against the initiative, such as violation of net neutrality, splintering the Internet and compromising security and privacy, remain unchanged Mumbai: Is it better for the poor to access a bit of the Internet for free with a few strings attached rather than have no access to it at all? On the face of it, most of us will find it hard to disagree with this proposition. After all, no one...
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In drought hit Maharashtra region, an early casualty: education -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express Villagers in Chikalthana say not more than one in every 20 wells in the vicinity has any water left. Not a single farmer in the village will earn anything from the field this kharif season. Parbhani/ Beed (Maharashtra): This summer, Meera Jadhav, 18, secured a first division in her Class XII board exams. Weeks later, her younger sister Suvarna, 16, got her Class X final results — over...
More »The Importance of Being 'Rurban': Tracking Changes in a Traditional Setting -Dipankar Gupta
-Economic and Political Weekly A categorical distinction is facing rough weather--that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the outside world that comes in not just as external markets but as external inputs. Further, many of our villages barely qualify as rural if we were to take occupation alone. So the earlier line that separated the farmer from the worker in towns is slowly...
More »Machines drive 90% of power in farming, humans’ share drops to 5% -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Silently, agriculture in India has gone through a far-reaching change in the past few decades. The share of human power available for carrying out the myriad operations in farming has shrunk to a mere 5% as has that of draught animals, the iconic oxen pulling the plough. More than 90% of the power is now drawn from mechanical sources: tractors and power tillers provide the bulk, 47%;...
More »SC restrains Search Engines from flashing sex determination ads
-The Hindustan Times Search Engines such as Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft were Wednesday restrained by the Supreme Court from flashing advertisements promoting sex determination of a foetus. A bench headed by justice Dipak Misra took strong exception that the three engines continued to carry advertisements on their web pages even though pre-natal sex determination is illegal in India. "If any advertisement existed on any Search Engine, these should be withdrawn forthwith,"...
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