-NDTV.com The Global Hunger Index report, prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe, termed the level of hunger in India "alarming". New Delhi: The methodology used to calculate the Global Hunger Index - a peer-reviewed annual report followed worldwide - is unscientific, the government claimed on Friday after India slipped to the 101st position behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. "It is shocking to find...
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Power crisis a reminder of fossil fuel dependence
-The New Indian Express An energy crisis was the last thing policymakers had expected in the aftermath of Covid-19. An energy crisis was the last thing policymakers had expected in the aftermath of Covid-19. But here we are, facing an unprecedented energy crisis, not just in India but in many other parts of the world. Even as the Delhi chief minister sent an SOS to the Central government warning of possible power...
More »Stubble burning: bio-decomposer solution to be sprayed on city farmlands from today
-The Hindu Environment Minister Gopal Rai said the solution has been given free of cost to farmers who will spray it in over 4,000 acres The Delhi Government, in a move to provide an alternative to stubble burning and combat air pollution, will on Monday start its campaign to use bio-decomposer solution on farmlands under its winter action plan. Environment Minister Gopal Rai said the solution has been given free of cost to...
More »Social media gets a Gandhian platform: Pixstory -Kallol Bhattacherjee
-The Hindu Senior journalist and writer Appu Esthose Suresh starts a Gandhi-inspired platform to filter fake news and hate speeches From communal riots to transistor blasts and crimes of passion, Delhi is no stranger to felonies but the greatest criminal offence in the national capital was committed on January 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead at a prayer meeting by Nathuram Godse. In a newly published book — The Murderer, The...
More »India has a long way to go until kids’ learning levels improve, Pratham’s Rukmini Banerji says -Soniya Agrawal
-ThePrint.in Recipient of the 2021 Yida Prize for Education Development, Dr Rukmini Banerji said the education sector in India still has a long way to go. New Delhi: The policy framework for the new National Education Policy (NEP) may be in place, but collaboration among various government departments is the only way forward, said Dr Rukmini Banerji, CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation. In an interview with ThePrint, Banerji, who was the recipient...
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