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Weaving together heritage and social equity -SK Panda

-The Hindu Business Line The Prime Minister will launch the India Handloom brand today, the country’s first National Handloom Day India’s handloom fabrics are an integral part of the rich culture and heritage of India, and are appreciated world over for their colour, texture and design. During our freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi had stressed the need for hand spinning, handloom weaving and wearing India-made fabrics; thus khadi became an integral part of...

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Nurture mission -Reetika Khera and Rajkishor Mishra

-Frontline Odisha shows the way in the implementation of the ICDS scheme to ensure that children receive nutrition and care in their earliest years, but the Centre’s moves to slash budgetary allocations could wreak havoc on such programmes. At the Tasarda anganwadi centre in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, as the auxiliary nurse and midwife (ANM) pulled out the blood pressure (BP) instrument to check a pregnant woman, the children at the anganwadi began...

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Conspiracy against mustard -Devinder Sharma

-DNA India doesn't need genetically modified mustard to boost its already robust production When winter comes, I crave for sarson ka saag. As far as I can remember, even when I got my first job, my mother would send me a container full of saag that would last me for a week or so. I could eat saag with every meal, or at least once a day, a habit that I...

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MGNREGS as insurance

-The Hindu With unseasonal rain laying waste vast areas under the rabi crop in north India earlier this year and the threat of a deficient monsoon looming, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme could act as a real salve for distressed farm workers and labourers. The World Bank’s brief statement on the scheme on Tuesday to this effect, as part of its latest India Development Update, concurs with recent...

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Day after green tribunal order, cops seize 96 vehicles

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after the National Green Tribunal banned diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in Delhi and NCR, the Delhi government was still in the process of trying to access the order. Meanwhile, the Delhi traffic police prosecuted 96 vehicles. Of these, 38 were commercial vehicles while the rest were private vehicles. The traffic police said it had...

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