-Hindustan Times Brown PLAnthoppers have been particularly pestilent in the kharif season this year. Distressed farmers from the nine affected districts in Odisha are setting fire to their destroyed crops. Bargarh: Landless farmer Brunda Sahoo’s hopes soared early October when he saw lush green paddy crop standing on 15 acres he cultivated as a sharecropper. He told his family they could repair their house and marry off his daughter after selling...
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30 children die in past 48 hrs at Gorakhpur medical college -Pravin Kumar
-The Times of India GORAKHPUR: 30 children died at Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur in past 48 hours (from Wednesday midnight to Friday midnight). Of these, 15 deaths took PLAce in Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and 15 in paediatrics intensive care unit (PICU) in the last 48 hours. On Thursday, 25 patients were admitted to NICU while 66 children were admitted to PICU. In past 24 hours (from...
More »Less than half of new MBA graduates get jobs, trend at 5-year low -Neelam Pandey
-Hindustan Times Over the years, in the absence of competent faculty and industry training facilities, most B-schools other than the premiere institutes began churning out graduates who were far from job-ready. Job offers for fresh management graduates in India are at a five-year low, official data show, a trend experts blame on a sluggish economy as well as a mismatch between the years-old curriculum and industry expectations. In 2016-17, just 47% of Master...
More »Solar feeders to provide electricity to farmers in Maharashtra: CM
-PTI Mumbai: Maharashtra government will provide cheap and assured electricity to farmers across the state through solar feeders in the next three years, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said. He was speaking after performing the Bhumipujan (ground breaking ceremony) for first solar project under the ’Mukhyamantri Agricultural Solar Feeder’ scheme at Ralegan Siddhi. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare was also present. “The important decision of using solar powered feeders has been taken to become...
More »First-ever Gender Vulnerability Index will give activists tangible parameters to tackle discrimination against Indian women -Deya Bhattacharya
-Firstpost.com The first ever Gender Vulnerability Index (GVI), developed by PLAn India, a non-governmental organisation, indicates that Goa is the safest for women and girls while Bihar ranked the lowest for their safety and security. The GVI is a composite index developed for a study for PLAn India’s ‘PLAn for Every Child’ – a campaign that is targetted at understanding the problems that women and girls face in difficult circumstances. The report...
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