-The Indian Express The ministry has also requested the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority to provide copIES of the license and product approval details of the Ayurvedic medicines which the company has claimed will treat Covid-19. Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd on Tuesday launched what they claimed was the first Ayurvedic medicine to cure Covid-19. However, the AYUSH Ministry has sought details about the medicine and has directed Patanjali and Ramdev to...
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Acreage under rabi crops declined in 2016-17 as compared to 2013-14
As opposed to what has been said officially about the positive impact of demonetisation on rabi sowing, acreage actually declined in 2016-17 as compared to a normal year. Let us see why this has been so. On New Year’s Eve, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the nation post-demonetisation, among other things, said: “...Friends in the last few weeks, an impression was sought to be created that the agriculture sector...
More »Don't announce schemes for poll-bound States in Budget, EC tells Centre -Devesh K Pandey
-The Hindu Elections are to be held between February 4 and March 8 in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa. The Election Commission on Monday directed the Central government not to announce schemes specific to poll-bound States in the Union Budget. Elections are to be held between February 4 and March 8 in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa. “It may be ensured that in the Budget speech, the government’s achievements in...
More »Mumbai, Delhi are not really ‘smart citIES’, says global survey -Moushumi Das Gupta
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The national capital is not “smart”, neither are financial capital Mumbai, information technology hub Bengaluru and eastern India’s biggest city Kolkata. They actually wallow at the bottom of a global livability survey of 181 citIES. The 2016 CitIES in Motion Index (CIMI), prepared jointly by the Barcelona-based University of Navarrara’s IESE Business School and the Centre for Globalisation and Strategy, found Indian citIES floundering on most parameters that...
More »Foodgrain output to stay below 2013-14 level, predicts agriculture ministry
Till recently agricultural production in the current crop year was expected to be adversely affected by drought situation in more than 10 states, apart from hailstorms and excessive rainfall that happened in March. However, if one were to believe a recent forecast made by the Ministry of Agriculture, the overall foodgrain production in the country this crop year is anticipated to remain almost the same as last year. In 2014-15,...
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