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Bilingual dictionaries to promote India’s mother tongues – Madhusree Chatterjee
- March 13, 2012
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The campaign to preserve vernacular mother tongues and make knowledge accessible to students through translation across the linguistic arc has taken a big stride with a new bilingual dictionary series in Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada from the source language, English. An initiative of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), National Translation Mission, Regional Institute of South [...]
UP: Thumbs Down for Congress and Rahul – Seema Mustafa, Newsclick,
- March 13, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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To understand what has happened, perhaps one needs to reverse the position in Uttar Pradesh by standing the results on their head as it were. What would have happened if the Congress had secured the 100 seats it had been projecting through a pliable media? The drums would have started beating. Crowds would have been brought to gather outside the [...]
The disappearing ponds of Kashmir – Mir Iqbal
- March 13, 2012
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Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called “Talaab Gaam” because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it. All but one of these ponds have now disappeared because of encroachments and other constructions. According to the residents of the village, 60 km south of Srinagar, apart from encroachments, government buildings, schools, graveyards [...]
Odisha’s health workers fight maternal deaths – Azera Rahman
- March 13, 2012
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The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) may have made a dent in many backward regions of India, but here in this coastal district of Odisha mothers continue to die at childbirth, highlighting the state’s reputation as one of India’s worst performers in maternal deaths. With a maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 258 (per 1,000 live births), the state is way [...]
Health Sector Reforms in India – Amit Sengupta
- March 12, 2012
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IT would require a very brave person to argue that India has a functioning health care system. The country’s health sector has been the topic of several screaming headlines in the media in recent months. As horror stories of scandals, scams and denial of health care continue to make headlines, it is clear that a deep malaise affects the system. At the [...]
Socio Economic Conditions of Muslims : Five Years After Sachar Committee Recommendations – Moinul Hassan
- March 12, 2012
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THE constitution of India has clearly stated that the state will not have an official religion and that every person has the right to preach, practice and propagate any religion that they choose. Quite interestingly, though, the word secularism has never been used in the Indian context as it has been in western countries where secularism necessarily and predominantly means the separation [...]
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Presenting, his maiden Rail Budget in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has stressed on boosting safety and inclusive growth to meet aspirations of the country. * Annual Plan for Railway for 2012-13 put at highest ever Rs 60,100 crore. *Propose to set up Independent Railway Safety Authority as a statutory body. *Special Purpose Vehicle – Rail [...]
State of Indian Agriculture 2011-12
- March 14, 2012
Index CHAPTER 1- Indian Agriculture: Performance and Challenges CHAPTER 2- Natural Resource Management CHAPTER 3- Farm Inputs and Management CHAPTER 4- Agricultural Production and Programmes CHAPTER 5- Agricultural Prices and Markets CHAPTER 6- Agricultural Research, Education and Extension CHAPTER 7- Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries CHAPTER 8- Post Harvest Management and Value Addition CHAPTER 9- Information Technology and Agricultural Statistics [...]
National Sample Survey Office
- March 14, 2012
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation was established in 1950, with the objective of obtaining comprehensive and continuing information relating to social, economic, demographic, industrial and agricultural statistics through sample surveys on countrywide basis. It has been, therefore, instrumental in developing a strong database that has helped the Central as well as State [...]
Gay population is 25 lakh, 7 pc HIV infected: Govt to SC
- March 14, 2012
India has an estimated 25 lakh gay population and about seven percent (1.75 lakh) of them are HIV infected, Government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. “The population of MSM was estimated to be 25 lakhs inIndia,” the government said in its affidavit filed in the apex court, citing figures of the National Aids Control programme. The affidavit, filed by Ministry [...]
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Bilingual dictionaries to promote India’s mother tongues – Madhusree Chatterjee
- March 13, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
The campaign to preserve vernacular mother tongues and make knowledge accessible to students through translation across the linguistic arc has taken a big stride with a new bilingual dictionary series in Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada from the source language, English. An initiative of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), National Translation Mission, Regional Institute of South [...]
UP: Thumbs Down for Congress and Rahul – Seema Mustafa, Newsclick,
- March 13, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
To understand what has happened, perhaps one needs to reverse the position in Uttar Pradesh by standing the results on their head as it were. What would have happened if the Congress had secured the 100 seats it had been projecting through a pliable media? The drums would have started beating. Crowds would have been brought to gather outside the [...]
The disappearing ponds of Kashmir – Mir Iqbal
- March 13, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called “Talaab Gaam” because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it. All but one of these ponds have now disappeared because of encroachments and other constructions. According to the residents of the village, 60 km south of Srinagar, apart from encroachments, government buildings, schools, graveyards [...]
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Mukul Roy sworn in as cabinet minister
- March 20, 2012
Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy was Tuesday sworn in as a cabinet minister and is expected to replace party MP Dinesh Trivedi, who had to quit as railway minister following the rail budget in which he proposed to hike passenger fares. Roy, former minister of state for shipping, was sworn in by President Pratibha Patil at a brief function in [...]
The Indian defence expenditure for the financial year 2012-13 has been budgeted at a fairly high figure of Rs.193,407 crore (budgeted expenditure, or BE) which converts to $38.5 billion and is not unreasonable — but is well below China’s corresponding figure of $100 billion. However, to get a true sense of how this translates into tangible Indian military capacity, this [...]
India Statistical Strengthening Project (ISSP) is a comprehensive Project of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India, aimed to strengthen State statistical systems by way of providing adequate technical and financial support to improve their statistical capacity and infrastructure for collecting, compiling and disseminating reliable official statistics for policy planning purposes particularly at the State and Sub-State levels. [...]
House Sparrow– Population Crash – Kalpana Palkhiwala
- March 20, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Goraiya, the house-sparrow, the little sweetie in countless poetry, lyrics, songs and folk-songs and paintings, is today facing a crisis of survival. Its been several years now that we miss the familiar “chi-chi-chi” every morning and the lovely sight of Goraiyas dancing around. Following inspiration from a retired forest officer in Gujarat, a movement is on to save house sparrow. People get artificial nests for [...]
India’s diplomatic efforts to resolve a controversy relating to Russian state prosecutors’ bid to get a Russian interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita banned and branded extremist literature will be put to test again with a high court in the Siberian city of Tomsk set to deliver its final verdict Tuesday. Anxiety and frustration has gripped Hindus in Russia as they [...]
HOUSE SPARROW– DECLINING POPULATION -Kalpana Palkhiwala
- March 20, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Environment / Wildlife, Focus
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Universally familiar in appearance, the widespread and once abundant house sparrow has become a mystery bird and is becoming increasingly rare all over the world. Perky and bustling, house sparrows have always been seen, mingling with finches in the fields in autumn and winter, but now weeks pass without a single one putting in an appearance. They are vanishing from [...]
THE Direct Taxes Code (DTC) bill comes in the backdrop of a decline in the tax-GDP ratio in the recent years. The direct taxes to GDP ratio has also declined from its peak of 5.9 per cent in 2007-08 to 5.4 per cent, as per the budget estimate for 2010-11. This amounts to a weakening of the resource mobilisation effort [...]
Iran: US and Israel in “Lockstep” – Yohannan Chemarapally
- March 18, 2012
BELYING reports appearing in the western media about an imminent strike by Israel against Iran, the Israeli prime minister after returning from his official trip to Washington, instead ordered an aerial bombardment on hapless Gaza. Four days of continuous attacks killed more than 25 Palestinians, including many children. The Obama administration while keeping up the volume of criticism against the Syrian government’s actions against armed [...]