PTI (Press trust of India) is the source of above news.
NDTV and TOI (Times Of India) published the same news on their papers. By tomorrow many more news papers like Hindu, Hindustantimes etc will carry over.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080052023&ch=6/4/2008%2011:37:00%20PM
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UNCTAD_blames_India_China_for_rising_food_prices/articleshow/3100492.cms
I am assuming that PTI is spreading rumours and spicing up the reports from foreign agencies to sell it to INdian papers who are happy to publish them on their papers.
I am posting a link to the complete report from UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
http://www.unctad.org/sections/edm_dir/docs/osg_2008_1_en.pdf
UNCTAD has compiled the report on food crisis from development perspective and have listed several reasons for food inflation. It has said that lack of agriculutural productivity, oil price rise, divertion of agriculutural land for biofuels, farm subsidies of US and Europe and rising demand for food from developing nations etc are responsible for food crisis. However, PTI picked up only one line that alligned well with President Bush’s earlier speech on food crisis and concluded that UCTAD is blaming India and China for food crisis.
Agencies such as PTI and subscribers such as TOI, NDTV and other papers should be confronted for malicious reporting. Such news item makes us look ugly in front of world leaders.
It puts question mark on our intellect and common sense.
Let us all protest by sending a negative feedback to PTI.
I did by sending the following message.
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I am expressing my deep concern and frustration w.r.t your recent report from UNCTAD on World food security.
Here is the link for original report
http://www.unctad.org/sections/edm_dir/docs/osg_2008_1_en.pdf
However, the news item published in Indian papers doesn’t reflect the report in true spirit and content.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UNCTAD_blames_India_China_for_rising_food_prices/articleshow/3100492.cms
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080052023&ch=6/4/2008%2011:37:00%20PM
I am deeply saddened from such false accusations on UNCTAD.
This is not the first time it happened. IT also happened when President Bush gave a speech on food crisis and it was widely caricatured by Indian papers and grossly mis-represented the speech.
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I hope that my feedback receives a response. If i do receive a esponse, i will add that to my blog.
Thanks
Sri
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