-TheQuint.in After interest payments, food subsidies, fertiliser subsidy will be third largest single-budget govt expenditure. With the Government seeking an additional appropriation of Rs 1.09 crore through the first supplementary in the current session, India’s fertiliser subsidy bill is set to exceed Rs 2.37 lakh crore this fiscal 2022-23. Govt Expenditures Going Big on Fertiliser Subsidies Excluding interest, pensions, and mandatory transfers to state governments, the revised budgetary discretionary expenditure is likely to be...

-SentinelAssam.com This step will be very helpful for weavers of the state who were adversely affected by counterfeit products in the market. GUWAHATI: A long-awaited demand of the people of Assam has been fulfilled as the traditional Gamocha finally gets a GI Tag.  Gamocha is an essential part of the Assamese lifestyle and identity. But in recent times, it was noticed that machine-made products from different parts of the country were flooding the...

-The Third Pole/ Scroll.in The dams the two countries are relying on may not be able to generate much power if avalanches, landslides and floods continue worsening. As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects in the Hindu Kush Himalayas is increasing. A recent study on the state of a glacier on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau raises questions about the...

-IndiaToday.in What is more concerning is that India is already more vulnerable to heart diseases and sees more cardiovascular deaths than the global average. Incidents of young people walking around the streets, working out in the gym, or even on the wedding stage are suddenly dropping dead due to cardiac arrests. And, this is happening not only in India but around the world. The trend has become more prominent as more cases...

-India Spend India's transition to sustainable farming has to be calibrated and orchestrated well, drawing lessons from the successes of India's Green Revolution and the recent crisis in Sri Lanka, says sustainable farming expert P.S. Vijayshankar Bengaluru: The production-centric intensive agriculture brought about by India's Green Revolution in the 1960s, using high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and high levels of groundwater utilisation, helped India achieve food self-sufficiency by the 1970s, but has created a...