-Newsclick.in Researchers will now focus on how the Dwarf Virus, first found in China, entered Punjab and haryana. Even though the virus causing the ‘dwarfing’ of paddy in Punjab and haryana is new in the country, the insect that carries the virus has been here for years, according to a latest research by scientists at Ludhiana’s Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), the Indian Express reported. The Southern Rice Black-streaked Dwarf Virus (SRBSDV) is carried...
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Protest against eviction drives in Delhi-NCR and other cities
-Press release by Freedom from Bondage movement dated 6 September, 2022 New Delhi: As we mark #75thIndependenceDay & #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav, thousands of people who have been evicted from their homes in slums, Jhuggies, settlement colonies and informal sector workers who have been denied their livelihood without any rehabilitation have gathered at Jantar Mantar to raise their voice against the “Bulldozer Raj”. The government is forcibly snatching the land of poor Dalits and...
More »Supreme Court asks Union Home Ministry to collect reports from eight States on ‘attacks on Christians’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Bench clarifies it has not formed any opinion on the veracity of the allegations by petitioners The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to obtain from eight States information about the registration of FIRs, status of investigation, arrests and chargesheets filed in incidents petitioners allege to be attacks targeting the Christian community and institutions. The eight States in question are Bihar, haryana, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Karnataka,...
More »Fuelling problems: India’s poor are being forced to return to unclean cooking fuels; here’s why -Seema Prasad
-Down to Earth With LPG prices crossing the Rs 1,000-mark, the poor now have to make unfair choices about their basic standard of life Farm labourer Mahadesha from Karnataka, groundnut farmer R Chandrashekharreddy from Andhra Pradesh, homemaker Geeta from haryana and slum dweller Naresh from Ghaziabad are facing the same dilemma. The cost of a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder has crossed over Rs 1,000 on the back of regular price revisions...
More »UP to get Harvard experts, MP goes for mother tongue — how states are implementing NEP -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in haryana's announced free education for underprivileged girls, Karnataka working on improving administrative aspects of institutions, according to presentations made to Union govt. New Delhi: While Uttar Pradesh plans to get its college teachers trained by experts from Harvard University, haryana is considering offering free education to underprivileged girl students as part of its National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 implementation plans, ThePrint has learnt. This was discussed at two meetings — the first...
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