-Hindustan Times New Delhi: A clutch of pesticides that could be carcinogenic and Banned in many countries will continue their run in India, though a government panel has recently decided to Ban 18 insect killers hazardous to human health and prohibited abroad. This is the first time a decision to Ban such a big number of pesticides was taken. There are 261 pesticides registered in India but only 28 had been Banned...
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SC asks RBI for details of firms that have defaulted on loans of over Rs 500 crore -Shreeja Sen
-Livemint.com The Supreme Court has asked RBI to submit the information within six weeks New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to furnish details of companies that have defaulted on loans amounting to more than Rs.500 crore in sealed covers within six weeks. The court made the central Bank a party to a 2005 case related to bad loans advanced to a few companies...
More »On the farm front, make a bold move -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express The budget is an opportunity for government to address the simmering discontent and disillusion in rural India. The first advance estimates of GDP growth, at 2011-12 constant prices, put the growth for FY16 at 7.6 per cent over the previous year. This is the highest growth rate in the first four years of the forgotten 12th Five-Year Plan. No wonder this makes the Narendra Modi-led NDA government somewhat...
More »Sex determination: Answer this -Sabu M George
-The Indian Express If the government does not have the will to regulate 55,000 pre-natal diagnostic clinics, how will it track 29 million pregnancies annually? I was inspired by Maneka Gandhi’s struggle to get back her passport (impounded by the Janata Party government) as an IIT student in 1977. Her Supreme Court case led to a landmark judgment on personal liberty. Subsequently Gandhi filed petitions in courts to protect animal rights....
More »Centre, West Bengal in row over growing tea on farmland -Arun S
-The Hindu The Centre is at loggerheads with the West Bengal over the State government’s one-and-a-half -decade-old notification Banning conversion of agricultural land into tea cultivation area. Stating that the 2001 notification was affecting a large number of small growers — estimated to be around 20,000 — mainly in north Bengal, the Centre recently asked the West Bengal government to lift the Ban. However, the State government says the Ban — imposed as...
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