-Down to Earth Sluggish monsoon; area sown down 15%; rural employment stares at meltdown There are disturbing signals of a potential meltdown of the country’s biggest employer and also food producer as the southwest monsoon enters its second week of the second month. Kharif sowing was down 15 per cent by July 7, in comparison to last year for the same period. Altogether, farmers didn’t sow in 6.3 million hectares (Ha) of farms. Sowing...
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Centre wants to create framework for PPP in farm sector: Agriculture Secy -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Manoj Sinha said work on the framework is ongoing, private players are encouraged to share their inputs With a focus on securing more investments and expertise from the private players in the agriculture sector, the government is keen to create a formal comprehensive framework for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the sector, a senior government official said. Speaking at an event organised by industry body Ficci on the issue, Agriculture Secretary...
More »UP police forms SIT to probe cases against Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair -Namita Bajpai
-The New Indian Express The SIT will be headed by Inspector General (Prisons) Preetinder Singh while IG Amit Verma will be its member, Additional Director General (Law & Order) Prashant Kumar said. LUCKNOW: In order to probe into half a dozen cases registered against Alt News Co-founder Mohammad Zubair in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, the state government has set up a special investigation team (SIT) headed by Inspector General of Police...
More »Is India No More World's 3rd Largest Economy? A FactCheck -Mohammed Kudrati
-BOOMLive.in A graphic misleadingly compares India's economic size to its economic growth rate to convey the economy being in bad shape A viral graphic stating that India has fallen from the third largest economy in the world in 2011 to the 164th fastest growing economy out of 193 countries in 2021, is misleading. This is due to two reasons. First, the graphic makes an apple to oranges comparison as it compares India's position...
More »India to surpass China as most populous country in 2023: UN -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph According to report, China’s population will decline to 1.317 billion by 2050, while India’s population will grow to 1.668 billion India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country during 2023, the United Nations said on Monday in a report forecasting global population trends over the coming decades. Both countries have around 1.4 billion people each in 2022, but an absolute decline in China’s population and continued growth in...
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