Gujarat Government initiated a programme where about 34 lakh poor families will be provided with Soya based fortified atta. The programme will require 4 crore kg of wheat and 20000 kg of Soya. The State has affiliated with 50 flour mills to carry out the process.
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Modi launches Soya based fortified atta distribution for poor
Posted by balaji 19 hours ago (http://deshgujarat.com)Nutrition is a bigger problem than hunger: Swaminomics
Posted by balaji 20 hours ago (http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Ajai Shankar, former industry secretary, has an excellent suggestion for self-targeting in food — mix wheat flour (atta) with soya flour, raising its protein content but making it less palatable. Richer folk will not eat this, but poor people will. Such protein fortification of atta could help reduce protein deficiency in pregnant women and children.
Let’s not confuse entitlements with rights « Swaminomics
Posted by balaji 5 days ago (http://swaminomics.org)
The communist experience shows that giving welfare rights priority over basic freedoms is the road to serfdom. And the capitalist welfare state now shows that entitlements, although desirable and inevitable in democracies, must be limited and targeted at the needy, so that they do not hog all spending or bankrupt governments.
Christophe Jaffrelot: Hindutva's Politics of Denial
Posted by balaji 5 days ago (http://www.caravanmagazine.in)
This politics of denial—or worse, the legitimisation of Hindu nationalist violence is bound to be counterproductive. Inequality before the law will generate additional frustrations among Muslim youth, preparing the ground for the recruitment of new militants by Islamist organisations. Justice, on the contrary, can defuse resentment and the desire to take revenge.
Caste surnames are an impediment to social justice
Posted by balaji 5 days ago (http://www.hindu.com)
It would be naive to assume that dispensing with caste names will lead to a casteless society. But the adoption of generic names would be a small but definite step towards eradicating caste from this society.
Beck rally signals election trouble for Dems
Posted by balaji 7 days ago (http://apnews.myway.com)
If Democrats had doubts about the voter unrest that threatens to rob them of their majority in Congress, they needed only look from the Capitol this weekend to the opposite end of the National Mall.
Pictures from a massive rally hosted by Conservative Commentator Glenn Beck at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for "Restoring Honor" and to take the country back from the socialists.
Putin drives across Siberia in yellow Lada
Posted by balaji 8 days ago (http://www.google.com)
The Russian prime minister set out on the gruelling 2,000-kilometre drive between the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk and Siberia's Chita. "This is a significant event for Russia, in a certain sense historic. Russia has never in its history -- never! -- been fully linked up with highways", Putin said.
China's Discreet Hold on Gilgit-Baltistan
Posted by balaji 9 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Reports from a variety of foreign intelligence sources, Pakistani journalists and Pakistani human rights workers reveal two important new developments in Gilgit-Baltistan: a simmering rebellion against Pakistani rule and the influx of an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army.
Abolish Sports Ministry; create National Sports Council
Posted by balaji 11 days ago (http://www.livemint.com)
In order to stem the rot, sport needs to be saved as much as possible from political interference and government control and handed over to professional management. My recommendation is to do away with the sports ministry and replace it with a National Sports Council which will formulate policy and oversee the execution of the blueprint.
Behind the unseemly word games the Manmohan Singh government has been playing over the language of the proposed nuclear liability bill lies a more dangerous conceit: that complex legislation with the potential to affect the lives of tens of millions of people can simply be pushed through with stealth, subterfuge and the barest minimum of consultation.
1,200-year old temple restored to its original beauty
Posted by balaji 12 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The change that has come over the 1,200-year old Kailasanathar temple at Uttaramerur, about 90 km from Chennai, is unbelievable. The temple, which was in total ruins, with dense vegetation growing over its vimana and collapsed mantapas, looks as good as new today.
Actor Reitesh Deshmukh: Marathi vs Hindi Cinema?
Posted by balaji 12 days ago (http://www.hindustantimes.com)
Harishchandrachi Factory was sent as an official Indian entry at the Oscar Awards. Jogwa, Natrang being few of the other acclaimed works. Similarly great work is being done in other regional cinemas too be it Bengali, Gujrati, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Oriya etc. But, most of these works somewhere get overshadowed by the bigger brother — Hindi Cinema.
Rajdeep Sardesai: Manmohan's indecisiveness costing India dear
Posted by balaji 16 days ago (http://ibnlive.in.com)
A year later, the doubts have resurfaced, even the goodwill which the prime minister's personal integrity so readily attracts appears to be slowly evaporating. The charge of being indecisive is now finding a silent echo even among his many admirers.
Nuclear Deal: Elusive Benefits, Tangible Costs
Posted by balaji 18 days ago (http://chellaney.spaces.live.com)
"With the help of a morally and intellectually bankrupt BJP, government seals a flawed nuclear-accident liability bill."
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