-Hindustan Times A report on sugar PRIce policy for 2015-16 by union agriculture ministry had highlighted that Maharashtra’s sugarcane cultivation, which is less than 4% of the total cropped area, consumes 70% of water needed for irrigation Following criticism over sugarcane crop guzzling potable water, particularly in drought-prone Marathwada, the state government is set to introduce a policy for shifting 50% of sugarcane farming on drip irrigation in the next two years. Statistics...

-The Times of India Multinational stent companies claim that the ceiling PRIce fixed by the National Pharmaceutical PRIcing Authority (NPPA) is commercially unviable, but they are selling at far lower PRIces in much richer countries with smaller markets than India such as Germany, the UK, Italy and many other European countries. A look at the PRIces of stent brands in these countries shows that people in India have been defrauded of crores...

-PTI From cleanliness in kitchen, to quality of food being served to children, they will keep an eye on minute details, UP Basic Education Minister Anupma Jaiswal said. Lucknow: It’s a Mother’s Day gift for lakhs of children and their moms in Uttar Pradesh. ‘Maa’ will now keep an eye on mid-day meals served to students in state-run PRImary schools to ensure that they get nutritious food prepared in hygienic conditions. “In...

-MoneyControl.com Even as the Indian economy grew, the inequality between the rich and the poor too has widened with drastic fall in jobs and increase in number of landless farmers, the India Exclusion Report 2016 says. Even as the Indian economy grew, the inequality between the rich and the poor, too, has widened with a drastic fall in jobs and increase in number of landless farmers, says the India Exclusion Report...

-Business Standard Till date, government has procured over 27 million tonnes of wheat By all estimates, wheat procurement is expected to be around 30 million tonnes in 2017-18, short of the initial target of 33 million tonnes.   Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan in an interview to Business Standard did estimate that final procurement figures could be around 30 million tonnes, but said that it won't have any impact on stocks as the purchases were...