Cookies, potato chips, shirts help inmates to new life

NEW DELHI  – A jail-based brand that includes crispy potato chips, crunchy cookies and formal shirts seems an unlikely route back to life in the outside world for inmates in South Asia's largest prison.


Yet efforts by the Tihar Jail complex in New Delhi to transform the lives of its inmates and prepare them for a fresh start through vocational training in diverse fields has created the successful TJ'S brand of goods.

Herbal products and school desks are also among the many products being manufactured and sold, well enough that prison authorities have set up a website to boost sales still further. Read More...............Cookies, potato chips, shirts help inmates to new life

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Using Liquor to improve Potato harvest

Farmers in the Agra division of Uttar Pradesh - popularly known as the potato basket of India - have been spraying water laced with country liquor to improve their potato crop.

'Farmers in Khandauli block (in Agra district) have been using 'deshi' (country) liquor diluted with water to spray their crops. It is safer compared to pesticides and the quality of the crop also shows signs of improvement,' said a potato cultivator of Khandauli, 20 km from Agra on the road towards Aligarh town. Read more........................................Using country liquor to improve potato harvest

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