-The Hindu It will dispense 36 varieties of seeds COIMBATORE: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University is installing a seed vending machine at the entrance of the Botanical Garden on Marudhamalai Road to dispense small quantities of seeds for roof and kitchen gardening purposes. To be inaugurated on January 11 by Agriculture Minister S. Damodaran, the machine will dispense 36 varieties of seeds, both vegetable and flower, at the touch of a button. It contains...
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Link between scanners and falling child sex ratio in Kerala?-Shyama Rajagopal
-The Hindu Health officials on a mission to check illegal use of scanning Machines under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and prevention of misuse) Act 1994 Kochi (Kerala): Is there a potential link between the high number of scanning Machines in the private medical institutions, many of them allegedly without proper records, and the dipping child sex ratio in Kerala? Since the health officials don't want to misread the situation, they have been...
More »Hope floats for Kedarnath’s ‘village of widows’ -Amit Bhattacharya
-The Times of India DEOLI VILLAGE (Uttarakhand): Savitri Devi was pregnant with her second child when she lost her husband to flash floods in Kedarnath. She gave birth two months later. Today, her four-month-old son is both a source of joy and a constant reminder of the tragedy. Six months after the June 15-16 deluge, grief still hangs like a fog over Deoli-Bhanigram. Thirty-four women lost their husbands in this gram sabha,...
More »Aadhaar-based PDS experiment takes officials on a steep learning curve-MP Praveen
-The Hindu Kochi: The State government's ambitious project for an Aadhaar validation-based public distribution system (PDS) would have to address critical technical issues before it could be rolled out. The system put to trial, which the civil supplies department would like to call a pre-pilot phase, in six ration shops in Thiruvananthapuram more than a month back has thrown up technical challenges, which took the department through a steep learning curve. "Based on...
More »Bihar’s ‘sparrow man’ and his 8,000 winged ‘friends’ -Dev Raj
-The Hindustan Times Patna: Arjun Singh, 48, lost his father and wife in quick succession, in 2004 and 2005. Then followed a long spell of depression and "utter loneliness", until in 2007 a sparrow chick that had fallen from a tree in the courtyard of his house transformed his life for good. He tended to the bird for a few days. It recovered and flew off, kicking off a passionate association...
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