-IndiaToday.in (with PTI inputs) Delhi reported 1,485 fresh COVID-19 cases and zero fatality due to the viral disease on Sunday, while the positivity rate was recorded at 4.89 per cent. Delhi recorded 1485 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, while the positivity rate stands at 4.89 per cent. Zero death were reported while 154 people were hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19 in Delhi. On Friday, it saw 1,607 Covid-19 cases and...
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Fear of cooking oil shortage, spike in prices as 290,000 tons stuck in Indonesia -Aniruddha Dhar
-Hindustan Times India is the world's biggest importer of palm oil and relies on Indonesia for nearly half of the 700,000 tonnes it takes every month. Indonesia President Joko Widodo's drastic measures to control food prices by banning palm oil exports have come into effect from Thursday. India is the world's biggest importer of palm oil and relies on Indonesia for nearly half of the 700,000 tonnes it takes every month. Palm...
More »India logs 3,303 Covid-19 cases, 39 fatalities
-PTI/ The Telegraph An increase of 701 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours India on Thursday reported 3,303 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its tally to 4,30,68,799, while the active cases increased to 16,980, according to Union health ministry data. The daily cases crossed the 3,000-mark after 46 days. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,23,693 with 39 more fatalities, the data updated at...
More »Waterlogging pushes Haryana farmers to sell agricultural land, take up odd jobs -Sat Singh
-Mongabay.com - Perennial waterlogging in agricultural fields of Charkhi Dadri is making them uncultivable. Farmers are adopting alternate occupations or taking land on lease in other villages to continue farming. - While groundwater scarcity is a problem in many parts of North India, some 319 villages in Haryana have the opposite issue of waterlogging because of high groundwater levels. - Government interventions, saline water draining attempts and subsidies for crop diversification, along with...
More »The fate of SC/ST funds is a secret even to the sarkar! -Venkatesh Nayak
-Deccan Herald Despite such systems, generation after generation, these deprived communities pay the price for the progress of other segments of society It’s happened again. Nearly Rs 8,000 crore, earmarked by law for the development of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities in Karnataka, have been diverted for general infrastructure development since 2018. In Delhi, citizens’ RTI interventions exposed the government’s decision to deploy such funds to build stadiums for the 2010...
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