-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Sunday confirmed 21 more deaths due to Cyclone Fani, which struck the Odisha coast on May 3. With this, the death toll rose from earlier reported 43 to 64. The special relief commissioner’s situation report on Sunday confirmed that 39 people died in Puri district alone. This is 18 more than what the government had declared earlier. Three more deaths were confirmed in...
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First challenge for next govt: Food inflation set to return -Parthasarathi Biswas & Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express The past couple of months have seen prices of a host of farm commodities surge, mainly on the back of drought in large parts of western and southern India, coupled with an early and harsher-than-usual summer. New Delhi, Pune: THE BJP-LED NDA government’s tenure has been marked by benign food prices. Consumer food inflation has ruled below general retail inflation for 31 months running, from September 2016 to...
More »Fund crunch, land cost may slow down highway projects -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After a major thrust on highway during the last five years, the next government faces the prospect of a sharp slowdown in highway development due to funding constraints and rising project costs, primarily on account of a spike in land acquisition rates. The result: Only 4,600km of the announced 12,000km may actually be taken up during the current financial year. The situation is so grim that...
More »Why has drought hit the Maldharis of Kutch so hard this year? -Ramya Ravi & Abi T Vanak
-The Hindu The Maldharis of Kutch are well adapted to a culture of scarcity. But older coping mechanisms have died away Do you remember how the monsoon began last year, ben?” asked Haji bhai of Hodka village in the heart of the Banni grasslands in the Rann of Kutch. “The thunder, the way the ground swelled from hours of rain and tiny grasses appeared the very next day. Do you remember, we...
More »After Haryana Bt Brinjal find, activists seek pan-India probe -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after confirmation of illegal cultivation of genetically modified (GM) brinjal - Bt Brinjal - in a small farm in Fatehabad district of Haryana, a group of farm activists on Saturday wrote to Union environment ministry seeking its direction to government agencies for time-bound investigations beyond Haryana as they suspect that the cultivation of this transgenic variety of food crop may not be limited...
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