-Business Standard 'We wanted to do some Work to make ourselves financially strong, but due to lack of guidance, things could not materialise Raipur: Pramina never had a notion that fish, which she loves to cook, could be a good source of income for her. In her mid-thirties, the resident of Chervapara village in Baikunthpur development block of Korea district is eyeing the big catch. Overwhelmed with the initial outcome, she and her group...
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Scientists, experts challenge govt’s GM mustard yield data
-The Tribune New Delhi: Amid the central government’s claim of 28 per cent higher yield of GM mustard in the Rajya Sabha, former government scientists and agriculture experts have accused the government of fiddling with GM DMH -11 data. The government is said to have claimed that there is 28 per cent higher yield of GM mustard than that of other varieties. Dr SE Pawar, who has Worked at nuclear agriculture &...
More »Govt seeks to turn tables on collegium -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Centre said it had conveyed its stand on the points raised by the two-judge bench to the secretary-general of the apex court in a letter dated July 11, 2017, but had not received any response New Delhi: The Centre has sought to blame the delays in judges’ appointments, for which the Supreme Court has repeatedly reprimanded it, on the collegium itself. The government invoked observations by a two-judge bench in 2017...
More »Bt Brinjal biopiracy case: Apex court restores PIL in Karnataka HC after nearly a decade -Shuchita Jha
-Down to Earth In this decade, 231 more crops have been removed from the protection of piracy provided in Section 3 of the Biodiversity Act, bringing the total to 421 The Supreme Court, in a November 22 order, has ordered the Karnataka High Court to continue hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) on biopiracy which it had sent to the National Green Tribunal in 2013. Biopiracy refers to the practice of commercially exploiting...
More »India’s Manufacturing Growth Slowdown a Decadal Problem -Deepanshu Mohan
-TheWire.in In India’s growth trajectory, for over a decade, domestic private investment levels have remained consistently low and so has (domestic) manufacturing growth. As per recent quarterly estimates, India’s growth rate slowed to 6.3% in the September quarter of 2022-23. There is evidence of a notable contraction in output of manufacturing that’s pulling down growth. This author has previously argued that quarterly growth estimates may not reveal the real state of an economy....
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