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INDIA New England News Sri Sri Ravishankar Bengaluru–Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar on Monday said that India needs to adopt organic farming to keep ‘poison’ out of its plates. Inaugurating the annual five-day National Horticulture Fair 2021 organised by the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Bengaluru, Ravishankar Guruji said that the country must gradually adopt organic farming for its sustainable growth. “We are consuming poisonous food due to extensive usage of pesticides. The present farming system has to be changed by encouraging organic fa...

Controlling Monkey Menace K K Sharma Over the past few decades there has been a steady and steep increase in the population of Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) commonly known as monkey. The population of monkeys has grown at an alarming rate during the last decade. According to the last count there were 50 million monkeys in India which has resulted in their migration from the forest areas towards towns and cities and also to the cultivated areas. There is no centralised data bank on monkey raids in the country. According to the official and media reports, 20 States/UTs have reported signific...

Country, i want us to get away from talking about just 15-dollar an hour jobs, we need to be the party of 30, 40, 50-dollar an hour of jobs in new building, building electric vehicles, building wind, building solar, we can help farmers in rural areas talking and moving to sustainable farming system where farmers are making profits, no one is talking about this but me and so when we get that out there people resinate with the campaign and they want to come on board, we have the agenda to transform. i'm in this for the long haul, once people get to know me they will say, hey, it's the guy from o...

Vote rather than punishing people for not -- >> to be fair to the system to be transparent, you can vote by absentee ballot. if you feel you're elderly or if you are and you want to vote in person but you're not sure you can do it in person, granted the reason we have elections on tuesday it's the whole farming system. there's a whole history behind that. i agree it's outdated. i agree with you it's not particularly convenient. we thought we had -- we got this right with help america vote acts of 2002. that fiasco of florida, we don't have it right. the unfortunate truth is, you're right, we m...

Government, they should think about this? when they talk about what spending cuts looks like, talking about government spending as government waste this is what we're talking about. by the way, democrats and republicans completely failed to put enough money into the school lunch program and last reauthorization, they will not put anything more than a few pennies, look at the foods these poor kids have to eat. it's the worst waste products we can pull out of our farming system. we're failing these children even giving them free meals. >> and certainly the human side of the debt cutting is impor...