The Aruna Shanbag verdict
The hits and the misses
The Supreme Court has ruled that Aruna Shanbag should be allowed to live. In other words, it has ruled out active euthanasia, which allows someone to terminate the life of someone who...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/tata-power-is-setting-up-the-worlds-largest-rural-electrification-sustainability-project
Tata Power: Powering rural micro-entrepreneurship through clean energy
TP Renewable Microgrid (TPRMG), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Power has launched what could be termed as the world’s largest sustainability programme of renewable energy for rural areas. It has covered more than...
A modified version appeared at https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/how-neglect-of-education-and-healthcare-has-put-lives-of-millions-of-children-at-risk-5279411.html
The other two parts of this series can be found at :
Education #2 and Education #3
Education #1: Lack of good education kills millions of children each year
RN Bhaskar -- 18 May, 2020
India is facing...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/maharashtras-criminally-reckless-water-management-and-its-industry-unfriendly-moves-3138561.html
Reckless water management in Maharashtra borders on criminality
Water levels underground have fallen by more than a metre during the past few years. That bodes ill for both the quality of groundwater — which could turn saline or toxic or...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-maharashtras-milk-of-human-unkindness-2741051.html
Maharashtra's unwillingness to have a fair policy on milk
It is sad that the state government has not come out with the facts before either the farmers or the public. It must explain why Maharashtra's private dairies and cooperatives cannot...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/coronavirus-in-india-close-precious-metal-commodity-markets-urge-experts
Coronavirus lockdown requires precious metal commodity markets to be closed immediately
RN Bhaskar – 10 April, 2020
Experts in the commodity markets in India have appealed to the government to suspend all commodity trades in precious metals.
This is because hitherto, physical...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-of-hermann-scheer-and-his-german-model-that-s-perfect-for-india-1508960
What India could not learn from Germany's Of Hermann Scheer about solar power
Hermann Scheer, the pioneer of Germany’s solar feed-in tariff (FIT) policy, died on October 14, 2010.
And in his passing away, the solar power industry lost a great...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/we-as-government-want-to-make-a-history-mahadev-jankar/1072647
Mahadev Jankar wants to create history
— By Pankaj Joshi and R N Bhaskar | May 23, 2017 08:25 am
Mahadev Jankar is a cabinet minister who is in charge of animal husbandry, dairy and fishery development for Maharashtra (from the representing...
Japan eyes big ticket projects in India
Finance and skill development would be key issues for projects being looked at by Japan and China
In some ways, the deal with Japan for setting up India’s first bullet
train was almost decided when...
China develops Africa both as Plan B for itself and for the world
RN Bhaskar
The future of the world will lie in making Africa grow. That is what China has been doing all along. That is what India should be...
