-The Pioneer Every year, India observes September as Poshan Maah (nutritional month) to raise awareness about proper eating habits and also about nutrition. Speaking to ARCHANA JYOTI, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition Director, Dr R Hemalatha, discusses in length about the nutrition landscape of India, the proposed revision of the dietary guidelines, the need for increased focus on maternal nutrition and the reasons behind India's sluggish performance on key maternal and child...
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Merchandise exports remain flat at $33 billion in August -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu On conservating estimate, exports will cross $750 billion amid global headwinds, said Commerce Secretary India’s merchandise exports contracted 1.15% in August to $33 billion, while inelastic imports of petroleum and coal remained firm, lifting imports above the $60 billion mark for the sixth successive month. The country’s goods trade deficit moderated slightly from the record $30 billion in July, but remained the second highest on record at $28.68 billion, more than...
More »In 2021, over 45K women died by suicide in India, 23,000 of them are housewives: NCRB data -Sharangee Dutta
-Hindustan Times The report found that Tamil Nadu (3,221) accounted for the most number of suicides among housewives, followed by Madhya Pradesh (3,055), and Maharashtra (2,861). As many as 45,026 women killed themselves in 2021 in India with more than 23,000 of them being housewives, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report said. This comes even as the rate of deaths by suicides across the country during the year peaked to...
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-The Telegraph Decision to further restrict the export was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by PM Narendra Modi New Delhi: The Modi government on Thursday further restricted the export of wheat flour to curb rising prices as shipments have increased over 200 per cent during the April-July period compared with last year. The government in May had banned the export of wheat. The decision to...
More »The global threat to our food security -Himanshu
-Livemint.com We must raise procurement to prepare for a possible rise in inflation as global food supplies shrink Recent data on inflation suggests a softening of the trend of rising inflation in retail prices. Much of the inflation this year has been driven by rising food prices, particularly edible oil and more recently cereals, primarily wheat. This has followed the global trend in food prices, which softened last month, even though they...
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