-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India put its innovations on display at the Social Good Summit on September 21 and 22 during which the United Nations General Assembly has been in session. Hosted at IIT Delhi on Sunday, the first India Social Good Summit 2014, webcast live for thousands of students, had experts and students came come together to interact on one question: What type of world do we want...
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Monsoon withdrawal delayed; paddy arrivals yet to begin in Punjab -Madhvi Sally
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The monsoon that set in on India late this year is making a delayed retreat as well. Rains towards the fag end of the season are good for standing crops and will hold soil moisture for winter crops, but may hurt crops which are ready for harvest, particularly paddy and cotton in some areas. According to the government's meteorology department officials, there are no signs of...
More »Farmer in distress -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
-The Statesman Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed anguish over suicides by farmers, whose condition has not improved despite the high rate of economic growth. The reason for this distressing state of affairs is that economic policies are badly crafted. The primary effort of the Government has been to increase agricultural production. The price factor is not taken into consideration, the perception being that the farmer will be better off...
More »42% of Indian girls are sexually abused before 19: Unicef -Aparajita Ray
-The Times of India BANGALORE: Lakshmi (name changed) was 13 when she was dressed up as a bride. Someone paid her Rs 8,000 and her father Rs 25,000. And he goaded her to marry a 70-year-old man. The child's daze turned into a nightmare when the seven-time husband raped her that night. Thankfully, the child was rescued from her home in Raichur district's Lingsugur taluk by a team of social workers affiliated...
More »Modi's PMO overloaded as ministries go slow on decisions -Nivedita Mookerji, Jyoti Mukul & Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-The Business Standard Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely...
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