-The New Indian Express KOCHI: Globalisation and its appetite for cheap input have badly affected fisherwomen who are already grossly underpaid when compared to men in the sector or are unpaid, a report of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, published on Tuesday has observed. In the sector, with its still prevalent Old Boys’ Club behaviour, globalisation benefited some people from new emerging work and business opportunities, but...

-TheBetterIndia.com This mobile-based project is not only helping soya farmers enhance their harvest but also connecting them to the experts and enabling them to Access valuable information instantly. Here is all you need to know about how a mobile phone can revolutionize Indian agriculture. Did you know that a simple mobile is almost doubling the soya harvest of women farmers in Rajasthan? Soya Samridhi, a mobile-based initiative by Self Reliant Initiatives Through...

-Hindustan Times A dominant feature of the first year of Narendra Modi's leadership is the quiet dismantling of India's imperfectly realised framework of welfare and rights, covertly, by stealth.   A declared pro-corporate agenda, such as the land acquisition ordinance, proved politically messy and costly. Therefore, the government resorted instead for an enfeebling of the welfare architecture of the country through a combination of fiscal withdrawals, ignoring even legally mandated obligations.   But this attracted...

-Livemint.com WTO director general holds meetings with envoys from 7 major industrialized and developing countries Geneva: India has conveyed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) director general that commitments to reduce trade-distorting farm subsidies must be discussed before pursuing new ideas for reducing import tariffs on agriculture and industrial products for concluding the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) trade negotiations by year-end. Over the last 10 days, WTO director general Roberto Azevêdo has...

-The Hindu The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), under the instructions of the Prime Minister’s Office, has undertaken a pilot project to implement the Gujarat human resources management model in two Central government agencies. The proposal for System of Application of Technology for Human Resources Improvement (SATHI) application was approved by the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2012, developed by IT major Infosys and launched by Chief Minister Anandiben...