-Down to Earth Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards regulation of toxic pesticides One more evil has reared its ugly head in Maharashtra’s arid Vidarbha region, which has so far been infamous for farmer suicides. Some 35 farmers in the region have died of pesticide poisoning in last four months. Most of them were working in cotton and...
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Net neutrality: TRAI releases recommendations, says no 'discriminatory treatment' on content - Navadha Pandey
-Hindustan Times/ Livemint.com TRAI in its new recommendations has backed the core principles of Net Neutrality. India’s telecom regulator has backed the basic principles of an open and free internet in its recommendations on net neutrality, a term which MEAns people should get equal access to the internet and broadband providers should not favour any apps and services. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s guidelines released on Tuesday say that no internet access...
More »How Kadaknath chicken from Naxal-hit Dantewada could be the new food fad -Shantanu Nandan Sharma
-The Economic Times DANTEWADA: A fowl from poverty-stricken and Naxal-affected Dantewada region in Chhattisgarh is slowly getting to be the favoured white MEAt on urban menus. The ironies are flavourful. The chicken has black MEAt and the state government is hoping women autodrivers will give it the required fillip to reach the economic scale to be self-sustaining. Uday Chand Sinha is fast picking up the tricks of the trade in raising Kadaknath...
More »Modi wants smog-free Delhi winter; new steps soon to tackle air pollution -AK Bhattacharya
-Business Standard The brief for the task force is to ensure that the winter of 2018 becomes pollution free. Remedial action, therefore, is likely in the next few months A package of MEAsures to reduce air pollution levels significantly in the National Capital Region (NCR) around Delhi by the winter of 2018 is expected to be formulated soon and implemented within a specified time frame. NCR covers the whole of the National...
More »This village knows how to feed its hungry babies -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India An NGO in Chhattisgarh is addressing the urgent deficit in nutrition by providing three MEAls a day to children under three along with daycare Sumita Dhruv's life revolves around rice — sowing, irrigating, and harvesting it. And yet very little of it reaches her two-year-old daughter Shristi. Like most children in the village of Baigahara, 50 km from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, Shristi was born underweight. Her eyes were...
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