-The Guardian India cannot support an agreement that ignores food security when millions of its people go to bed hungry each night There is a view on global trade negotiations that has been propagated by a spate of commentaries and news analysis over the past few months. It runs broadly as follows: the multilateral trade regime had been limping to a slow death because of the failure of the Doha development round...
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Farmer reaps fruitful yield through SRI method
-The Hindu TUTICORIN (Tamil Nadu): A technologically advanced method is rooted in the success of a farmer from Kurukattoor in Alwarthirunagari block. With the adoption of System Rice Intensification (SRI) method, John, a progressive farmer, reaped rich benefits in paddy. With the key intervention from officials of the Department of Agriculture, the farmer reaped 4,000 kg of paddy per acre, against the normal yield of 2,300 kg. On his 10-acre farm land, Mr....
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The sarkari babu will have to make every minute count. The Narendra Modi government has ordered that an Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) be implemented in all central government offices. A circular issued to all central government offices in the capital today has also asked employees, of all ranks, to submit their contact details (email ID, residential address, telephone and personal mobile phone numbers) to the department of...
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The Business Standard The Planning Commission has not been central to the policymaking process since the mid-1960s In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the end of the Planning Commission. There will be few mourners at its funeral, mainly old war horses like me. So this is in the nature of an obituary for an institution in which I served for a decade and a half, and where I...
More »Hyderabad cops wake up to handling juvenile cases sensitively -Mahesh Buddi
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Police have finally become sensitive to juvenile offenders and victims, with cops now being trained to be appointed as special juvenile police officers (SJPO) at law and order police stations. As per the recently published National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, the united Andhra Pradesh stood third after Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in number of juvenile offenders sent to court. In 2013, the Andhra Pradesh police had...
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