-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday recast the almost defunct Prime Minister's council on climate change, a move seen as an effort to handle climate issues pro-actively from the top. The revamped body is to meet soon to take key policy decisions ahead of the Lima climate conference next month. Environmentalist Sunita Narain has been dropped from the body - an apparent reflection of the Centre's discomfiture with...
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Telangana's Shocking Statistics: 350 Farmer Suicides in Five Months South -Zoya Anna Thomas
-NDTV Hyderabad: New state Telangana's first ever Budget session begins today with some bleak statistics on the table. Nearly 350 farmers have committed suicide in the five months since the state came into being on June 2 this year. Finance Minister Etala Rajender will present the Budget in the Assembly today. The opposition will arrive in the House ready to attack the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti or TRS government on farmers'...
More »Fat intake low in rural India: AIIMS doctors -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a country where obesity and diabetes, on account of high intake of fatty food, is turning into an epidemic, a unique health crisis is faced by few others. Top nutritionists working at AIIMS say the fat intake among rural population continues to be significantly lower than the Recommendatory Dietary Allowance (RDA) Leading to serious health issues in them. In last 20-30 years, scientists claim, the...
More »Creative approach: Hand-held projector comes in handy for illiterate ryots -R Avadhani
-The Hindu SADASHIVAPET (MEDAK DISTRICT, Telengana): DRDA teams up with Digital Green, an organisation supporting technology, to spread the word on innovative practices being followed by farmers. As the project is supported by battery and video can be played even on a wall, farmers are viewing these videos even in late hours. What can be done with a hand-held projector? Spreading new and innovative systems in farming with semi-literate and illiterate persons...
More »Study suggests vitamin D deficiency is widely prevalent -Zubeda Hamid
-The Hindu A study on over 37,000 people showed nearly 69 per cent were deficient Chennai: Vitamin D has been in the news lately and it looks like it's there to stay. A recent study conducted by a diagnostic centre on 37,010 people across five zones in the country (including Tamil Nadu) revealed that 69 per cent of those tested were vitamin D deficient, and a further 15 per cent had insufficient levels...
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