-Frontline.in Little seems to have improved in the five years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to make India open-defecation free (ODF) under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) by the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2. Confounding government claims of Madhya Pradesh being ODF, two Dalit minors, Roshni (12) and Avinash (10), were lynched to death in Shivpuri district by their upper-caste neighbours on September 25 for...
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Delhi traffic police to withdraw 1.5 lakh e-challans for overspeeding: Report
-IANS According to a Delhi traffic police officer, the Traffic Police had asked the PWD to change the signboard showing 60 km/hr as the speed limit, but they did not do it. Now the cameras along the Highway has been set with 70 km/hr as the maximum speed, the police said. Delhi Traffic Police have decided to withdraw about one and a half lakh challans issued mostly to those who were...
More »Curbing black money: Printing of Rs 2,000 notes stopped, says RTI reply -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express According to the central bank’s RTI reply, 3,542.991 million notes of Rs 2,000 were printed during the financial year 2016-17. NEW DELHI: Have you been wondering why the ATMs have been barely dispensing Rs 2,000 notes for last few months? That’s because the printing of the high-value note has been stopped, the Reserve Bank of India informed this newspaper in reply to an RTI query. The Bharatiya Reserve Bank...
More »Nobel winner Abhijeet Banerjee's advice to govt: Make policies that work; govt teachers are overpaid
-Financial Express Indian-American Nobel prize winner economist Abhijeet Banerjee on Monday said that the government should make policies that work for the people. Indian-American Nobel prize winner economist Abhijeet Banerjee on Monday said that the government should make policies that work for the people, TV news channel CNBC TV-18 reported. There is a willingness to announce policies that sound good and serve the political purpose dictate their nature, he also said in...
More »No data to justify, is Zero Budget Natural Farming a flawed concept? -Lola Nayar
-Outlook Experts say Zero Budget Natural Farming defies logic that it will involve no financial cost. Imbalance between yield and price could even lead to food shortage in future Au Naturel * Zero-budget natural farming relies on savings on chemical inputs like fertilisers and insecticides * As health consciousness grows, there’s a demand for natural/organic produce * ZBNF relies on cow dung and urine for seed treatment, improving yield * Scientists fear ZBNF may lead to...
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