Daily Brief: Thirsty crops, tired soil - Vicious loop threatens India’s food and water security, and more

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  Thirsty crops, tired soil: Vicious loop threatens India’s food and water security 
  Excessive reliance on monocropping is fast depleting precious resources with decreasing returns for farmers. 
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  Why drones are surveying Indian villages 
  The Svamitva scheme seeks to use drones to map out landholdings in inhabited rural areas. But so far, work has been opaque and riddled with errors. 
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  Alleged USAID funding ‘for voter turnout’ was for Bangladesh, not India: Report 
  The US agency has not funded projects of the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening in India since 2008, reported ‘The Indian... 
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  Being part of WhatsApp group does not imply criminality: Umar Khalid tells Delhi HC 
  The police had alleged that Khalid had ‘coalesced a coalition of the current government haters’ that led to the creation of a group on the messagin... 
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  Andhra Pradesh order banning non-Hindus from temple shop auctions can’t be imposed: Supreme Court 
  While disposing of a plea against a tender process adhering to the 2015 directive, the SC pointed out it had already stayed a High Court verdict in... 
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  Ripples of fear reached India as Palestinians revolted against the British in the 1930s 
  The British feared that the money given by India’s princely states for Palestine’s cultural and religious monuments was funding its uprising. 
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  Food history: How saffron became indispensable to recipes for Spanish paella 
  An excerpt from ‘Saffron: A Global History’, by Ramin Ganeshram. 
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  ‘Nayak’ review: A magnificent study of the fame game 
  A restored version of Satyajit Ray’s classic Bengali film, starring Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore, is out in cinemas. 
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