-The Hindu Pollution standards exist only for ambient air quality and not for individual power plants, says report Emissions from coal-fired power plants is taking a heavy toll on human life across large parts of India. In 2011-2012, a first-of-its-kind study in the country estimates it resulted in a whopping 80,000 to 1,15,000 premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases from exposure to a total PM10 (particulate matter) pollution. Titled ‘Coal...
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Modi’s Gujarat model can never become a national model: Karat
-PTI Patna: Attacking Narendra Modi, projected by a section of BJP as a possible Prime Ministerial candidate, CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat on Sunday said Mr. Modi’s Gujarat model of development cannot be replicated at the national level. “Modi’s Gujarat model can never become a national model for development,” he said, while addressing a CPI(M) ‘Aam Sabha’ in Patna. Everybody knows the truth about Mr. Modi’s Gujarat model of development, which has given priority...
More »CBSE Bill makes States jittery over their diminished role-Bageshree S
-The Hindu A proposed legislation to make the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) a statutory body, the draft of which is in circulation among the States for comments, has made Education Department officials of States apprehensive. They fear that it will result in hundreds of elite schools affiliated to the Board going completely beyond their monitoring mechanism. While the rules of the Right to Education (RTE) Act give an important role...
More »Govt introduces Biosecurity Authority Bill In Lok Sabha-Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-The Business Standard Bill would pave way for setting up of an authority to help control pests & diseases in plants and animals Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha that would pave way for setting up of a National Biosecurity Authority, which would help in prevention, control, eradication and management of pests and diseases of plants and animals and unwanted organisms. The Bill which was being debated...
More »Like flowers and chocolates-Sonalde Desai
-The Indian Express Setting up women-only banks overlooks the reasons for their exclusion The women-only bank mentioned in the finance minister's budget speech is like flowers and chocolates — a sweet thought but just as unsubstantial. Financial exclusion of women is a real problem. It deserves far greater effort than sops like a women-only bank. Such a bank also runs counter to the logic of mainstreaming, rather than ghettoising, gender issues. It is...
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