-The Hindu Business Line Underpaid and overworked, India's nurses are in need of better treatment from the society they care for Florence Nightingale called nursing the finest of fine arts. But Molly Sibbichan would have disagreed. On March 16, Sunday, the 42-year-old nurse, employed with the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, hanged herself inside her south Delhi home. Molly's suicide note said work pressure and stress pushed her to kill...
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Onion farmers for change, grape growers whining for status quo-Amruta Byatnal
-The Hindu Dindori (Maharashtra): This constituency in Nashik district does not occupy a particularly significant spot on the election map, but it presents a neat battle of "status quo vs. change" between its elite wine-grape farmers and onion growers. While onion farmers are rooting for change, grape growers are largely status-quoist, favouring the Congress for fear that a Bharatiya Janata Party-led government will not encourage the nascent wine industry in the country. Dindori,...
More »Kerala-based Prabhal Mohandas is making the best of tech to sell ‘matta rice’ -Jubin Mehta
-YourStory.com Prabhal Mohandas was born and brought up in Kerala with a rich family history in agriculture. He, however, went on to pursue higher education and did his engineering as well as an MBA. He spent a good decade with the likes of HSBC and Reliance and then got the urge to come back to his roots to start an enterprise around agriculture. Belonging to the technology age, Prabhal realized the...
More »SC/ST kids suffer bias in classroom: Rights group -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: "The teacher tells us to SIT on the other side," said "Pankaj," an eight-year-old tribal boy from Uttar Pradesh, "If we SIT with others, she scolds us and asks us to SIT separately. The teacher doesn't SIT with us because she says we are dirty." "The teacher didn't let us go to the toilet. One day, I asked her for permission to go to the...
More »Agriculture, a new story-Deepender Singh Hooda
-The Indian Express Contrary to the popular narrative, the second green revolution is underway. A dramatic turnaround of agriculture, India's most important sector, has gone largely unheralded. Contrary to the popular narrative, agriculture has been transformed in the last 10 years. The second green revolution is underway. At the end of the second tenure of the UPA and after a decade of persistent work, we are witnessing record agricultural outputs for every...
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