Stalin's Breakfast Scheme A Social Revolution

'Within a short span, it increased attendance, improved children's physical fitness, and led to a rise in the enrolment ratio.' IMAGE: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin feeds a student at the......

UNHEARD Voices from the Lockdown

While those who attended 'Livelihoods in Lockdown' learnt a lot, was anyone from the government listening? asks Jyoti Punwani *IMAGE: ASHA workers stage a protest at the Shivamogga deputy......

'If people die of hunger, that will be a great shame for the nation'

'Everybody should be given rations. Nobody should be excluded.''Without an income, the present ration quota is not enough.''They should increase it so that one person can eat adequately for a......

Clean chit to scribe for his salt-roti midday meal video

The Uttar Pradesh police has given a clean chit to a journalist who was booked for allegedly maligning the image of the tate government after he shot a video showing just salt and rotis being......

Can Left's mindset be changed?

Singapore's former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, on his recent visit to India, gave West Bengal's Leftists a piece of friendly advice: change your mindset. To this, the state's Chief Minister,......

Chidambaram announces his 4th Budget

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday announced in the Budget for 2005-06 that the Planning Commission has drawn up Tsunami relief programme costing Rs 10,260 crore (Rs 102.6 billion).So far, Rs......

How to utilise the education cess

The 2 per cent education cess imposed in the Budget for 2004-05 is estimated to yield a revenue of Rs 4,000-5,000 crore (Rs 40-50 billion) per annum, which will be earmarked for education,......

And who will account for the 2% tax

Few right-thinking taxpayers can suffer pangs about the 2 per cent across-the-board cess imposed by the finance minister to ensure primary education and midday meal schemes among the poor, ill-fed,......