-Down to Earth State-led control of population might be criticised, but it will help us in the long run to stabilise the population growth in Uttar Pradesh Population is a hard reality. A state like Uttar Pradesh, which consists of 200 million people, needs to respond to this hard reality. That is why the Uttar Pradesh government led by Adityanath has proposed the UP population control bill 2021 recently. Governance in this drastically...
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Bihar farmers stare at huge loss of Kharif crops due to erratic monsoon rainfall -CK Manoj
-Down to Earth Late transplantation of paddy crops may lead to crop yield loss of up to 50 per cent An erratic monsoon has dented the hopes of Bihar’s farmers of a good Kharif 2021. The rainfall was very heavy in parts of the state and scanty in others, because of which the cultivators have not been able to transplant paddy seedlings or sow maize seeds. Around 50 per cent of the...
More »Pegasus: Mamata appoints Lokur for a judicial probe into the scandal -R Balaji
-The Telegraph The ex-judge, who has often found himself at odds with the Narendra Modi government, said that he was yet to receive the formal notification from Bengal govt Justice Madan B. Lokur, whom the Mamata Banerjee government appointed on Monday to a two-member judicial probe into the Pegasus controversy, has often found himself at odds with the Narendra Modi government. So much so that last October, the Centre had rushed to stall...
More »One for the Record Books -Rachna Khaira
-CaravanMagazine.in India’s birth and death registrations compromised, fake entries corrupt official database for Rs 200 The digital database of the Civil Registration System, or CRS, of India, the most comprehensive records of the Indian population that includes district-wise birth-and death-registration certificates, has been compromised for the last two years at least. A four-month long investigation by The Caravan revealed that the official login IDs of a large number of registrars across India,...
More »‘Women and men are standing shoulder to shoulder’ -Hemani Bhandari
-The Hindu Mahila Kisan Sansad brings together participants from all walks of life. Among those who were members of the Mahila Kisan Sansad on Monday were an Assistant Professor from Punjab, wife of an Army officer and a homemaker who occasionally works towards women empowerment in her village in Haryana. Amandeep Kaur Sandhu (32), Assistant Professor at a college in village Baba Sang Dhesian, said back home, people used to believe that women...
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