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Crop holiday and food security by MS Swaminathan

August is usually the preferred month fo­r family holidays in Eu­­rope, because of ab­­undant sunshine and warm weather. In India, normally, this is the south-west monsoon season and a busy period for farmers. This year, ho­wever, several farm families in coastal Andhra Pradesh, the ri­ce bowl of the country, are repo­rted to have declared ‘crop holiday’. This is because the rice mills have not been lifting even last years’ crop....

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CBI to probe RTI activist’s death by Milind Ghatwai

The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday agreed for a CBI inquiry into the death of RTI activist Shehla Masood. She was found dead in her car on Tuesday. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan asked the Home department to begin the process after Shehla’s family called on the DGP seeking a probe by a Central agency. The family said they did not trust the local police. The FSL and post mortem reports had said...

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Talks with Posco on MoU renewal inconclusive

-The Business Standard   The road to renewal of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Posco India seems to be bumpy with the officials of the steel firm and the Orissa government failing to reach a consensus even though the pact lapsed on June 21 last year. In the latest of their series of interactions with the state government, the Posco India officials on Wednesday met state Chief Secretary B K Patnaik and steel...

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South Asian human rights forum condemns Hazare arrest

-IANS   South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) has condemned the arrest of social activist Anna Hazare and others before they launched their agitation for an effective Lokpal bill as "ultra vires" of the Indian constitution. SAHR chairperson Hina Jilani of Pakistan said in a statement that in a democracy all citizens have a right to protest peacefully and the government must uphold the citizens' fundamental right of speech and expression. "This act of...

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Some 45 million Indians rose above $1.25 a day: Report

-IANS   Nearly nine million Indian households, or 45 million individuals, saw their incomes rise above the threshold of $1.25 a day, or Rs.56, in the two decades ended 2010, reflecting the success of microfinance, says a survey. "A dramatic number of families moved out of poverty between 1990 and 2010," said the report, based on a survey of more than 15,000 Indian households, carried out by the India Development Foundation (IDF), a...

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