-Hindustan Times Swadeshi Jagran Manch says programme to distribute dietary supplement packets to fight malnourishment benefits private players New Delhi: RSS’s offshoot Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has urged the government to not rely on dietary supplement packets to help malnourished children since it will benefit large corpoRATions. The SJM said the programme to begin ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) begun in BJP-ruled Rajasthan and Maharashtra has proved to be an “expensive and unsustainable” exercise. More...
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Poor analysis, wrong conclusions in recent research paper, claims a group of scientists -MT Saju
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Irked by an attempt to link extreme tempeRATure and farmer suicides in a recent paper, published by the PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences of the United States) titled "Climate change and agricultural suicides in India" which claimed that 'tempeRATure during India's main agricultural growing season has a strong positive effect on annual suicide RATes, a group of scientists has issued a joint-press release questioning...
More »Delhi safer this year; murder, rape down
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Crimes against women have declined from last year, figures released by Delhi Police show. Till August 15 this year, 1,335 cases of rape have been reported. The figure for the corresponding period last year was 1,426--6.4% higher than this year. Similarly, for molestation, last year's figure was 2,738; this year, it has come down to 2,138. Not just crimes against women, but the overall crime RATe has...
More »What is the cost of doubling farmers' income by 2022? -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth The farmers have to make an investment of Rs 463 billion in the next five years A “New India” is the latest national agenda. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his fourth Independence Day speech, made an appeal with his trademark gesture of both hands pointing towards the gathering: “A new India that would fulfil the dreams of the young and women, and see the income of farmers double.” Doubling...
More »Madhya Pradesh to compensate farmers selling at lower than MSP -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express The registRATion of farmers will begin from September 1. Besides personal details like phone number, bank account details and Aadhaar number, the farmers will have to share details of cultivation and acreage Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government is set to roll out a populist scheme to compensate farmers when they are forced to sell their crops below the minimum support price (MSP) in mandis. The move by the...
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