Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh fare better India is now ranked among the 50 nations with highest under-five child mortality rate. It has been placed at number 46 in the list of 193 countries. India’s neighbours Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh protect their newborns much better and rank 52, 59 and 61 respectively, according to Unicef’s latest ranking. The report—State of the world’s children 2012: children in an urban world— was released on...

-Express News Service The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed criminal proceedings against Yahoo India, summoned with 20 other websites by a magisterial court to face trial for allegedly hosting objectionable content on web pages. Justice Suresh Kait set aside the summons issued to Yahoo, while allowing the plea of the website that the lower court wrongly issued the summons. It, however, said a private complaint, filed by journalist Vinay Rai, against...

-The Economic Times The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed the summons issued by a lower court against Yahoo India, due to 'lack of credible evidence' against it. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is set aside," Justice Suresh Cait said. He allowed the plea of Yahoo India that the lower court wrongly issued the process against it, without attributing any specific role to it. Yahoo India's acquittal comes just a day...

“Huge subsidy on chemical fertilisers unmindful, useless” Small and marginal farmers have raised the demand for special allocation for organic farming and ecological fertilisation in the forthcoming budget, which finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will present on March 16. According to them, chemical fertilisers, the subsidy for which is likely to touch Rs 1 lakh crore in 2011-12,  are not benefitting the soil and are burdening them with high-cost cultivation instead. “The government...

-Live Mint High on hype, the budget speech of the Union finance minister today is merely a statement of account. As India’s economy diversifies—with the private sector playing an increasingly important role—this annual feature has assumed much lower salience. Not only have fiscal policies lost the space they enjoyed in earlier years, even major policy announcements are restricted to being mere statements of account. Examples from other arenas include “activism” on...