Apex court refuses to answer RTI queries
The Supreme Court has refused to answer several queries filed under the right to information law on whether judges of…
Read MoreScan on need for GM food
Environmental groups have questioned assertions by sections of scientists and the biotechnology industry that genetically-modified (GM) food crops could play…
Read MoreVulnerable sections ignored in Budget allocation: NCDHR by Aarti Dhar
The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) has said that the budget proposals for 2010-11 have ignored the most…
Read MoreSSA gets 24k cr windfall under Right to Education
HRD ministry and states can be happy as 13th Finance Commission has been the most generous for elementary education allocating…
Read MoreIndia’s contribution pushes UN global campaign to over 10 billion trees planted
India, the world’s second most populous country, announced today that it is coming on board the United Nations Environment Programme…
Read MoreNo mid-day meal for half of MP madrasa students by Hemender Sharma
Many students are starving in almost 4,000 madrasas of Madhya Pradesh as only half of them get mid-day meals. There…
Read MoreCabinet nod for Women’s Reservation Bill by Aarti Dhar
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the Women’s Reservation Bill, 2008, that seeks to reserve 33 per cent seats for…
Read MoreSurvey hints at subsidy regime for curbing poverty by Ashok Dasgupta
With the government successfully managing to partially lighten its burden by switching over to a nutrient-based subsidy scheme for fertilizers,…
Read MoreOn GM food, Govt begins its Jairam damage control
Pushed to a corner by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s peremptory freeze on Bt brinjal, the UPA government took the first…
Read MoreLand acquisition: HC raises doubt on ‘kind’ of farmers
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a bunch of farmers against acquisition of their agricultural land and the government’s…
Read MoreUN seeks to cut preventable ‘lifestyle’ deaths in developing world
With often preventable, non-communicable diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory illness accounting for 60 per…
Read MoreFarmers paid peanuts, over 40% looking for better avenues by Omkar Sapre
PUNE: Bandya Pashte, 28, has been cultivating paddy on his family’s five-acre plot in village Veravli in the Konkan, Maharashtra’s…
Read MoreVidarbha wants Rs 30,000 crore from Mukherjee’s Budget kitty
NAGPUR: Farmers in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region are hoping for a Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion) development package in Finance…
Read MoreNon-GM soya varieties have immense opportunities
Union ministers may be squabbling heatedly over whether the moratorium on Bt Brinjal was right or wrong, but trade associations…
Read MoreCommonwealth Games projects under CVC scanner
The Central Vigilance Commission is examining all construction works related to Commonwealth Games following complaints alleging large scale corruption in…
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