-The Hindu Business Line Kochi: A training-cum-awareness workshop on Consortium of e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) called for promoting ICT-driven technology and information dissemination systems to improve agricultural research in the country. Keeping pace with the current knowledge diffusion trends, the new-generation researchers should come forward to utilise the digital knowledge resources maintained by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the workshop proposed. The workshop was held at the Central Marine Fisheries Research...
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Rabi acreage gains pace; exceeds 514 lakh hectares
-The Hindu Business Line Surpasses last year’s area for the first time New Delhi: The area under cultivation in the current rabi season for the first time this week surpassed that of corresponding period last year, according to the data released by the Agriculture Ministry on Friday. The total acreage under the rabi this year stood at 514.22 lakh hectares (lh), a marginal 1 per cent rise from 509.12 lh during the same...
More »Lack of transparency plagues India's new insolvency and bankruptcy regime -Nitin Sethi
-Scroll.in A year after its launch, the new process that handles the recovery of crores of rupees of unpaid corporate debt is shrouded in opaqueness. India’s new insolvency and bankruptcy regime has been functioning for a year without any disclosure norms or mandatory transparency regulations. In the first year of its application, the regime is already dealing with more than 450 cases that add up to thousands of crores of rupees...
More »Dengue death: Fortis kept profit margin as high as 1,737 per cent, finds NPPA -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express Aadya died of dengue at the hospital in September, and her family was charged almost Rs 16 lakh for a 15-day stay. New Delhi: Fortis Hospital, Gurgaon made a 1,737 per cent profit on drugs and other consumables that it billed the family of seven-year-old Aadya Singh, the drug pricing regulator has found in an analysis. Aadya died of dengue at the hospital in September, and her family was charged...
More »2 women harassed at workplace daily in 2017: Panel -Chethan Kumar
-The Times of India BENGALURU: Officially, about two women were harassed at their workplace in India every day so far in 2017, with the National Commission for Women (NCW) receiving an average of 1.7 complaints per day. In the 316 days between January 1 and December 12, the commission received 539 complaints, 60% of which were from five states: Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana. However, the cases reported to...
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