-Business Standard State plans to supply it under Anna Bhagya scheme from July Mysuru: Karnataka will distribute ragi, a finger millet endemic to South India, under its ‘Anna Bhagya’ scheme from the next month. The distribution of ragi, considered one of the most nutritious of foods, is rich in calcium and protein with a good amount of iron and other minerals and also has a low fat content, and will be distributed under...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 3611
India, Brazil cross swords with US at WTO -Sriram Lakshman
-The Hindu Moratorium on Intellectual Property Complaints Switzerland and the U.S. have begun a CAMPAign at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to not renew a moratorium on ‘non-violation complaints and situations’ for intellectual property rights that expires at the end of the year. Intellectual property laws are governed internationally by the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. The moratorium first came into being in 1995, when the WTO was born. And has survived...
More »One child dies every minute of severe acute malnutrition. How can India save them? -Ruhi Kandhari
-Scroll.in The government is yet to frame policies on how to tackle severe acute malnutrition but non-profits have started experimenting with community-based models. Nurses call him "the boy who lived." Severely dehydrated, unconscious and weighing no more than two kilos, lighter than a healthy new born, one-year-old Subhash was brought to the Darbhanga Medical College in Bihar in February. Admitted to Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit, he was administered glucose, therapeutic milk...
More »Net neutrality: Government to make its stand public soon
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government, after verbally backing the concept of net neutrality for some months, is all set to put it in writing. It is likely to make public this week the telecom department's report on the subject, which sources say will back the Centre's stance that the internet should be completely free with equitable access and without any obstruction or prioritization. The Department of Telecom report -...
More »Only 0.35% domestic LPG users gave up subsidy
-PTI Three months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Give It Up’ CAMPAign, only 0.35 per cent of the domestic LPG consumers have so far given up using subsidised cooking gas. At a review meeting chaired by Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan last week, it was informed that just over 5.5 lakh out of the 15.3 crore LPG consumers have so far voluntarily surrendered subsidised LPG and started buying the cooking fuel...
More »
