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Indians popping more antibiotics than ever: Study-Kounteya Sinha

There has been a six-fold increase in the number of antibiotics being popped by Indians. This includes the Retail sale of Carbapenems -- powerful class IV antibiotics, typically used as a "last resort" to treat serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant, gram-negative pathogens. Research by the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington DC, has found that Retail sale of carbapenems increased six times -- from 0.21 units per million...

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Pak potatoes rescue Indian consumers-Madhvi Sally

AHMEDABAD: With potato prices ruling at Rs 20 a kg in Retail in the domestic market, traders from Jammu and Kashmir have started importing potato from the two Line of Control (LOC) trade posts of Srinagar and Poonch. With zero import duty on import at the LOC trade points, Pakistani potato is cheaper than the Indian variety by 20% to 40%. India's potato production is expected to be 33.5-34 million tonne...

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Potato prices rising due to lower supplies-Sandip Das

-The Financial Express After plummeting to a record low two months back, the Retail price of potatoes has risen sharply due to lower supplies. The prices have been rising mainly due to expectations of a lower rabi output in the key producing states of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Traders at Delhi’s Azadpur market say potato prices have risen in the last two weeks because of lower supplies from UP, West Bengal and...

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Food ministry faces a problem of plenty now-Rituraj Tiwari

As news of record food grain production trickled from the corridors of the agriculture ministry, officials of the storage wing in the adjoining food ministry began working overtime to save the department the embarrassment of plenty. Food minister KV Thomas is under pressure to ensure that the toil of farmers is not wasted. "It's my duty to make sure that food grains don't rot. We are on our way to create...

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Government agrees in-principle to free diesel prices: Finance Ministry

-PTI The government on Tuesday said it has agreed in-principle to deregulate diesel prices, but is not considering similar proposal for the cooking gas.  "Government has, in principle, agreed to make the prices of diesel market determined," Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.  While petrol prices are market-linked, the government fixes the rates of LPG, kerosene and diesel, which results in a...

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