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Cooking oil prices spike in India due to Russia-Ukraine crisis -B Krishna Mohan

-TelanganaToday.com Hyderabad: Prices of cooking oil are on an upwards spiral and have gained up to Rs 25 more per litre. The trade segments attribute the increase in prices to the tightening supplies of sunflower and safflower oils, both called as sun oils, to the Russia-Ukraine war. Also, palm oil imports are getting costlier due to the internal trade restrictions of Indonesia, the biggest producer of palm oil. On the other hand,...

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"Roll Back LPG Price Hike": NDA Ally Warns Of Waning Chances In State Polls -Himanshu Shekhar Mishra

-NDTV.com A number of state assembly polls, including in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, are scheduled over the next few months.  New Delhi: The BJP's NDA ally Janata Dal-United (JDU) today demanded that the Centre roll back the hike announced today in LPG cylinder prices by petroleum companies. The party, which leads the coalition in Bihar, cited the financial pressure on households amid the Covid pandemic and said political rivals could use the...

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Organic production and consumption is on the rise in Rajasthan, finds CUTS International project report

-Press release by CUTS International dated 5th July, 2021 In a study done by CUTS International under its 4-years  old project -- ProOrganic, almost 97.4 percent of consumers were found to be aware of the fact that chemical input-based food products are harmful for health compared to 86 percent of the same set of consumers way back in 2017. Similarly, the percentage of farmers doing organic farming has gone up to...

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The State and the Digital Giants -CP Chandrasekhar

-NetworkIdeas.org The NDA government has decided to further tighten its regulation of e-commerce, taking on in particular foreign giants like Amazon and Flipkart-Walmart, with implications for domestic organized retail majors like Reliance. The Department of Consumer Affairs in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has called for comments on an amended version of the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, which it posted on its website in late June...

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200 Plus Days - Farm Laws, Farmers and Food -SG Vombatkere

-TheCitizen.in The Farmers’ agitation starting November 26 2020, was against three Farm Laws. The Essential Commodities Amendment Act, 2020, (ECA Act) is one of them. ECA Act amends the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, (EC Act) enacted “in the interest of the general public, for the control of the production, supply and distribution of, and trade and commerce”, and more precisely, “for controlling the rise in prices or preventing the hoarding of any...

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