-The Hindu Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh): Given that about 30 per cent of the national energy goes to conventional cooking, bringing down LPG consumption holds the key. As the likely targets are social welfare hostels and schools, where mass cooking of meals is an integral part of the daily chore, New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NREDCAP) gave a demo at Social Welfare Boys' Hostel here recently on the use...
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Salt invasion in Indo-Gangetic basin has led to 40% increase in human health problems: UN -Kounteya Sinha
-The Economic Times LONDON: Large areas of rich irrigated and fertile Land in the Indo-Gangetic basin is being lost daily to salt damage, confirms the UN. Crop yield losses on salt-affected Lands for wheat, rice, sugarcane and cotton grown on salt-affected Lands could be 40%, 45%, 48%, and 63%, respectively. Employment losses could be 50-80 man-days per hectare, with an estimate 20-40% increase in human health problems and 15-50% increase in animal health...
More »Govt may bring changes to Land act in winter session of Parliament -Kumar Uttam
-The Hindustan Times To kick-start stalled development projects and remove investment bottlenecks, the government is expected to make changes to the Land acquisition act during the winter session that opens on November 24. Dilution of the consent clause, restricting social impact assessment to large projects and giving states the powers to define "emergency" under "urgency clause" for acquiring Land are some of the major amendments -- demanded by various states -- that...
More »Feed the world -Nafeez Ahmed
-Deccan Herald In accordance with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, by using the agroecological methods, small farmers are key to feeding the world, Nafeez Ahmed notes. Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises linked to Land, water and resource availability. The stark warning comes from the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the...
More »India’s draft road safety bill focuses more on penalty and technology -Ruchita Bansal
-Down to Earth Death and injury prevention get little attention To address the problem of road safety, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has published a draft Road Transport and Safety Bill for public comments and suggestions. If passed by Parliament, it would replace the existing Motor Vehicles Act of 1988. While the bill should be aiming for zero mortality, it has set a target to save 200,000 lives in...
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