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Day January 25, 2018

India – New #Aadhaar safety features is admission that it may have erred

UIDAI’s post-dated cheque   ENCORE: After nine years of Aadhaar’s existence, the UIDAI seeks to introduce ‘VID’. Gopal Krishna THE Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)  wishes to add more safety features to Aadhaar from March 1. By then,  the… Continue Reading →

India – Only 15% landholders Farmers earn 91% of total national income

Richard Mahapatra   Income inequality makes agrarian crisis challenging; inequality is worse among farmers than the formal economy  While 85 per cent of farmer households earn 9 per cent of total income, the rest earn 91 per cent. Credit: Agnimirh Basu… Continue Reading →

India – 50,000 dedicated scientists, still, agriculture is an orphan of science

Point of no agri-returns Richard Mahapatra   Technologies developed for agricultural purposes are mostly limited to farms around research institutions, says a government report   Although more than 50,000 dedicated agricultural scientists are working to address field level problems, all the… Continue Reading →

50% of water released into canals from Narmada dam wasn’t accounted for. Where did it go?

Open letter to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani  by Khedut Samaj (Gujarat)  general secretary Sagar Rabari   Congratulations to you for returning to power, which may be more due to the failure of the Opposition rather than to success of… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – Srikrishna Committee Open house on Data Protection

Opening Remarks  By Anupam Saraph Jan 24, IIT Bombay # Is data protection technology centric? Data protection cannot be the protection of data in a particular medium like digital. We cannot create a data divide by restricting to the digital…. Continue Reading →

Inciting Mutiny: Are Governments Complicit? #PadmavatRow

by-  Retd Major General S.G.Vombatkere  Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s blockbuster movie Padmavati raised the hackles of the Rajput community across several states, who vandalised the film sets and threatened further violence on the grounds that it distorted the history of Rajput Rani Padmini, and… Continue Reading →

Bhopal – Karni Sena men unknowingly set fire to fellow activist’s car to protest Padmaavat release

Bhopal The car MP 04 HC 9653 was owned by one Surendra Singh Chauhan, who is an activist himself of the Karni Sena. Karni Sena activists torched a car owned by another Karni Sena activist in Bhopal on Wednesday evening… Continue Reading →

Stand up comedian Kunal Kamra asked to leave his flat as he laughs at politicians #WTFnews

Pay a price for  laughing at politicians   Facebook Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra Making people laugh at politicians is becoming a risky business in Modi’s India, an India which was not discussed at Davos. Read the plight of one such comedian…. Continue Reading →

UP- Farmer Crushed To Death Under Tractor By Loan Recovery Agents #WTFnews

The farmer had taken a loan of Rs 5 lakh to buy the tractor, and owed the remaining amount of Rs 65,000 that he had promised to pay within next six months. The Yogi Adityanath government may have over-hyped its… Continue Reading →

The Exsanguination of Medical Ethics

by Dr Nayvin Gordon —   For thousands of years physicians took oaths to always act in the patient’s best interest when providing care. At the heart of medical ethics, this moral code was passed down through the centuries and reaffirmed by… Continue Reading →

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