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Food poverty affects four million in UK
02 Oct 2011


Hundreds arrested over Occupy Wall Street protests
02 Oct 2011


Save Goa Campaign
28 Jun 2011


Protect the interests of Poor farmers
30 May 2011


Devinder Sharma on Hunger and GDP
30 May 2011


Women Leading Bangladesh Away from the LDC Tag
30 May 2011


Role of parliaments in the multilateral trading system
09 May 2011


Thousands Protest Corruption in India
27 Apr 2011


Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi
16 Nov 2010


India malaria deaths hugely underestimated, says report
21 Oct 2010


What's wrong with our food system?
04 Oct 2010


Chicken a la Carte
30 Sep 2010


Inside Story - Evidence of climate change?
19 Jul 2010


Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club across America
15 Jul 2010


Toxic Justice? BP and Bhopal
10 Jul 2010


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Government of India wants to give a unique ID number and a smart card, with biometric data in electronic chip, to every citizen. It aims to improve governance through increased usage of technology. Noble intention, indeed! But how to improve efficiency of people who collect, store and transmit this data into the card and secure databases? Don’t we know the blunders made in printing names, birth dates etc which appear on ration cards, voter cards and other ID proofs? Think about mixing & mis-match of biometric data like fingerprints and iris scan! Considering the sensitivity of electronic chips, and inability of poor farmers & labourers to keep it free of wear & tear, how effective & long lasting such smart cards would be if used regularly? And, in case of frequent replacements, who will bear the cost? 

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Saving Punjab farmer
By Devinder Sharma
04 Oct 2011

To overcome the adverse long term impacts of intensive farming, Punjab needs to make its agriculture more sustainable and farmer centric...
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