-Live Mint Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has rebuked an industry lobby for selectively using his recent comments on genetically modified cotton “to its advantage.” Ramesh said in a seminar on 12 June that there was a structural shift in India’s cotton economy and a comprehensive study was necessary to understand the relative roles of better irrigation, weather and the availability of different cotton varieties to understand how India had gone on...

-The Pioneer The land rights given under Forest Rights Act should be used to make these lands so productive that the people become self-sufficient for their daily needs. Government departments must facilitate the change, says VK Bahuguna Land-based resources in areas affected by Maoist violence are the backbone of tribal livelihood. But, population pressure and degradation coupLED with poor investment has LED to the gradual reduction in the income of the people...

-The Times of India CHENNAI: Activists campaigning for universal education on Monday calLED for a common school system that would offer education free of cost for all children in the country and help stop the commercialization of education.  Briefing reporters about an all India conference to be held in the city on June 30 and July 1, All India Forum for Right To Education presidium member Anil Sadgopal said, "There is widespread...

-The Hindu He stopped truck to expose denial of full quota of grain A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the death of an activist fighting corruption in the PDS who, his daughter alleged, was shot dead by the police on Saturday in a village in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh. When Ambika Prasad Dubey (55), who had been working to bring out corruption and leakages in the Public Distribution System, and some...

JAISALMER: The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which LED to her death. According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look 'natural'....