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Soil health cards for sustainable agriculture..

20.02.20

At the dawn of Independence, India was a food deficit nation, largely dependent on imports to feed her people. Faced with famines, stagnant production and rising imports, the adoption of the Green Revolution in the mid-sixties...... ...

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India’s ‘imported’ food inflation..

19.02.20

Is food inflation in India influenced by global price movements? On the face of it, that seems to be the....... ...

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What Supreme Court said on women in Army..

18.02.20

The Supreme Court on Monday brought women officers in 10 streams of the Army on a par with their male counterparts in all respects, setting aside longstanding objections of the government. The case was first....... ...

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How to treat a child witness..

17.02.20

In the two weeks since police slapped sedition charges on a school in Bidar, Karnataka, where a play critical of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had been staged, much of the spotlight has been on reports that the ... ...

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Choice and candidacy: On crime and politics..

15.02.20

The idea of removing the taint of criminality from electoral politics has been engaging the country for decades. Yet, whatever progress made in this regard has been through the initiative of the Supreme Court and the Election Commission. Political...

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Bangladesh fares better..

14.02.20

In an age of dog-whistle scaremongering, a Union minister alleged on February 9 that, “half of Bangladesh will come to India if citizenship is offered.” But no crystal ball prediction could be more deluded. This year Bangladesh’s economic growth rate...

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Nutrition and the Budget’s fine print..

13.02.20

A few months ago, the Global Hunger Index, reported that India suffers from “serious” hunger, ranked 102 out of 117 countries, and that just a tenth of children between six to 23 months are fed a minimum acceptable diet. The urgency around nutrition was...

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Six years on, Lokpal is a non-starter..

12.02.20

The massive public campaign in 2011 demanding an independent anti-corruption ombudsman resulted in the passage of the Lokpal law. The political dividend of the agitation was reaped at the nati..... ...

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Fine-tuning the Surrogacy Bill..

11.02.20

In a recent report, a Select Committee of Parliament has recommended that the contentious clause limiting surrogacy only to “close relatives”... ...

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Mapping the ‘Indian’ genome..

10.02.20

LAST WEEK, The Indian Express reported that the government has cleared an ambitious gene-mapping project that is being described by those involved as the “first scratching of the surface of the vast genetic diversi.... ...

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Sedition law — what courts said..

07.02.20

On Wednesday, a sessions court in Mumbai rejected the anticipatory bail application of a 22-year-old student booked under Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) along with 50 others. The sedition charge was filed on the basis of slogans that the student...

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