-The Times of India MUMBAI: Indian women seem more likely than other ethnicities to miscarry their FIRst pregnancy or suffer recurrent miscarriages, said a new study published by a city doctor. The five-city study, which was published in The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India, said 32% of the 2,400-odd participants had suffered spontaneous miscarriage. Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion without medical means to terminate a pregnancy, has so far been presumed...
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Use app to report traffic violation -Lelin Kumar Mallick
-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: Your smartphone has one more job to do - spot and alert authorities with visual evidence of traffic violations. From next month, one can click photographs of traffic violators on their mobile phone and send it to the authorities using a special app that the Regional Transport Office (RTO), Bhubaneswar-II, has decided to come up with. The app will help residents here to directly report incidents of traffic violations to...
More »For agriculture sector, it is going back to control raj days -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express The Central government’s move to fix cotton seed prices and trait fees sends wrong signals. 2015 will go down as a year that has seen all the rules of free trade being given the go-by when it comes to agriculture. The lead for it, significantly, has come from the Centre, whether in the form of not allowing exports of onion at below $ 700 a tonne or imposing stockholding...
More »Liberalised land leasing through government Land Bank can ease exit of distressed farmers -Kanchan Srivastava
-DNA The report said it will ease the exit of those farmers who find farming unattractive or non-viable and economically strengthen those farmers who want to stay and raise the scale of operational holdings. Opening farmland for 'liberalised leasing' through government-run 'Land Banks' can be a 'win-win reform' in the Indian farm sector, stated the latest report of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog taskforce on agricultural development. The report...
More »Like it or not, reports show people want MNREGA jobs -Mahua Venkatesh
-Hindustan Times If you are a fence sitter on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MNREGA), not sure whether it is good or bad, here is data to confuse you some more. As payments for jobs under the scheme remain sluggish, there has been a 60% increase in households registering for the programme in the August to November period this year. The higher registration of households is expected to push...
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