-United Nations News From heart disease to cancer and diabetes, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) now outnumber infectious diseases as the “top killers globally,” the UN health agency said in a new report, released on Wednesday, with one person under 70 dying every two seconds from an NCD. The report and new data portal, was launched on the sidelines of the 77th session of the General Assembly, at an event co-organized by the World...
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ECI seeks restrictions on cash donations to political parties, writes to government
-PTI/ The Hindu Chief Election Commissioner suggests a slew of amendments to RP Act to increase transparency and accountability on part of candidate The Election Commission has proposed reducing anonymous political donations to ₹2,000 from ₹20,000 and cap cash donations at 20% or at a maximum of ₹20 crore to cleanse election funding of black Money, sources said on Monday. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has written a letter to Union Law...
More »No Country For Organic: Why Punjab Finds It Hard To Quit Chemical Farming -Manu Moudgil
-IndiaSpend.com Punjab has amongst the highest use of fertilisers, pesticides and large machinery, including government support for chemical farming, making it difficult to transition to organic and natural farming. Chandigarh: When Ashok Kumar, 63, started doing organic farming on three acres of his farm in Sohangarh Rattewala village in Punjab's western Ferozepur district in 2012, the benefits of good health and a cleaner environment were foremost on his mind. Besides growing food...
More »India may ban rice exports, pose risk to global supply, says Nomura
-Moneycontrol.com The world's biggest rice exporter could see lower production as sowing has been 6 percent lower than the previous season India, the world’s largest rice exporter, could ban exports amid sub-par sowing this season, Nomura said on August 30. “Will India ban rice exports? We think the risk is non-negligible,” Sonal Varma, Nomura's chief economist for India and Asia (excluding Japan), said in a note. “Following the Russia-Ukraine war, soaring maize prices prompted...
More »Govt expects higher rice procurement of 518 LT in Kharif season despite output worries
-PTI/ Moneycontrol.com The estimates were finalised after discussion with state food secretaries and Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials in a meeting chaired by Union Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey here. The government fixed the rice procurement estimate for the central pool at 518 lakh tonnes (LT) for the current Kharif season, up by 1.60 per cent from the last year despite production concerns. The estimates were finalised after discussion with state food secretaries...
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