-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre is planning to bring in a regulation to check arbitrary fee hikes by private schools. The move comes after the success of the Uttar Pradesh government's legislation, brought in this year, to regulate fees charged by private schools, including minority ones, in the state. According to a senior official, the Centre is consulting all stakeholders and trying to build a consensus before the move...

-The Indian Express Area under ‘unapproved’ herbicide-tolerant hybrids likely to fall this year Nagpur: Last year, almost 35 lakh packets of genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, incorporating unapproved ‘herbicide-tolerance’ or HT technology, were bought and planted by farmers across India. But this time round, state governments seem better prepared to curb this illegal cultivation, even as sowing of cotton is over in northwest India and is about to commence in the...

-IndiaToday.in Agra: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed charge four years ago, he declared that the development of villages was top on his priorities. For this, he asked all BJP MPs to adopt at least one village in their constituency under the 'Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana', even urging the lawmakers from other parties to follow the suit. However, none of the villages adopted by about 400 MPs of BJP, can claim to be...

-Livemint.com According to the National Family Health Survey data, the average age at death for Dalit women was 39.5 years against 54.1 years for higher-caste women New Delhi: Dalit women in India die younger than upper caste women, face discrimination in accessing healthcare and lag behind on almost all health indicators. While violence against Dalits may be the main form of discrimination visible to the outside world, there are many other ways in...

-The Indian Express Behind the agitation, stagnant income and deteriorating terms of trade for agriculture New Delhi: Why are Indian farmers an angry lot today — stopping the supply of vegetables to cities and even spilling milk on roads? An answer to this can be found in the estimates of gross domestic product/ national income growth from the Central Statistics Office. The accompanying table shows two sets of growth figures. The first is...