-Newslaundry.com Racism is as much a religion in India as is cricket. The Siddis know this too well. “We know that you Indians want to see us, the n*****, act like animals,” said Nazim Siddi, 30. Nazim’s words, and his deliberate usage of a racial slur, lashed me like a whip. I was attending a Goma performance on top of a secluded hillock behind the mazar of Baba Gohr in Ratanpur, located 30 km...
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How Indian states fare in ensuring access to socio-economic security, basic amenities and justice -Deepanshu Mohan, Richa Sekhani, Latika Sharma, Vanshika Mittal & Advaita Singh
-Scroll.in With the aim of understanding inequality from the lens of opportunities, a new index measures the disproportionality of access across the country. The concept of equality of opportunity is rooted in the Rawlsian philosophical tradition, whereby people are expected to construct a society in a way that they would be happy for their position in society to be determined by a random dRaw. He argued that social positions should be formally...
More »Farmers Spend Night In Queue As Madhya Pradesh Fertiliser Crisis Drags On -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has admitted that there is a slight shortage of DAP and blamed international prices. Bhopal: Long queues and loud protests by farmers can be seen across Madhya Pradesh as the acute shortage of fertilisers in the peak harvesting season drags on. In Ashok Nagar, about 190 km from state capital Bhopal, hundreds of farmers have been sleeping outside the Mungaoli block headquarters so that they can...
More »Packaged sugarcane juice to hit the shelves -Virendra Singh Rawat
-RuralVoice.in Kanpur-based National Sugar Institute (NSI) is working on a novel technology to safely package pure sugarcane juice without the use of preservatives. For this purpose, the NSI has signed an MoU with the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a CSIR laboratory. Lucknow: Sugarcane juice is one of the most refreshing energy drinks, especially in summers; yet highly undersold and undervalued as well. The good news is this matrix may well change...
More »Govt rejigs fertiliser-subsidy regime to continue offering crop nutrients at below-market rates -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times India relies on import of Raw materials for crop nutrients as well as finished products and compensates fertiliser companies who sell them at below-inflation rates. The Union government has revamped parts of its subsidy regime for fertilisers and crop nutrients to continue providing them at below-market rates, while rolling over special discounts announced for the summer-sown season to the oncoming winter-sown months, according to an official statement on Thursday. International prices...
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