Sustainable farming practices & India’s food for the future
India is home to 15% of the world’s undernourished population. Food security is a pressing problem in India and in the world. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of…
Drug-resistant TB higher among children than expected: report
While detection of tuberculosis (TB) in children remains a challenge, it has now emerged that Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB is higher among children than expected. This has been described as…
Parliamentary Reform
Parliament is supposed to be a union of exemplary orators, with a grass-roots touch. Parliamentary debates, which once focussed on national and critical issues, are now more about local problems,…
Improving Quality of Education
The Government of India is currently implementing the Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) and Mid-Day Meal (MDM) for the universalization of elementary education and the Rashtriya Madhyamik…
Climate change to have a devastating effect in Asia
Climate change would bring devastating consequences to countries in the Pacific and Asia, a new report has warned and said Southern India may witness a decline in rice yields by…
All about China Pakistan Economic Corridor & Its effects on India
About China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: The ambitious project - part of China's "One Belt and One Road" or new Silk Road project - is a series of roads, railways, pipelines, hydropower plants and…
The all-out war on cash transactions is not wise economic policy
A report released by the State Bank of India last week states that thanks to demonetisation, India has seen a huge increase in digital payments using cards. It is unanimously…
Extra-Judicial killings cannot be overlooked
Mains Fodder Points By ordering an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation into more than 80 cases of suspected extra-judicial killings in Manipur, the Supreme Court has reiterated the…
Tuberculosis-A looming threat
Fodder Points; About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). Though the actual prevalence…
Advantages and Disadvantages of Goods and Service Tax
Fodder Points for Mains: The goods and services tax, one nation, one tax and one market is a radical step towards India's transformation into a common market. GST was not just…