-Down to Earth 77% packaged drinking water units in 18 states operating without no-objection CERTificates The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) conducted the performance audit of groundwater management and regulation to analyse the extent of groundwater scarcity in the country. The audit report was presented in the Parliament December 21, 2021. The audit was conducted on the basis of five years of data (2013-2018) on groundwater management and regulation in India. The...
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Clear dues of sugarcane farmers, Allahabad HC directs Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd
-PTI/ The Hindu Business Line Says if not cleared by March 31 next year, sugarcane commissioner will proceed with recovery Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has directed Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Limited to clear dues of sugarcane farmers of its five mill areas at Gola Gokaran Nath, Khambhar Khera, Palia Kalan, Barkhera and Maqsoodapur by March 31, 2022, along with a 15 per cent interest. The Lucknow bench of the court cautioned the company...
More »Omicron drives Indians, especially health workers, to quietly get booster from pvt hospitals -Mohana Basu and Anusha Ravi Sood
-ThePrint.in Centre is yet to recommend booster dose for Covid vaccine & CoWin neither allows registration for third dose nor issues CERTificate for it. But that appears to be no impediment for some. New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Fear of a drop in antibody level six months after receiving the second vaccine dose, and rising concern about the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, have pushed people in some parts of the country...
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-The Telegraph Health experts say the country's large geographical area and the current scattered pattern of documented cases so far might help explain the lack of observed surges India’s currently shrinking Covid-19 epidemic is almost CERTain to reverse course and flare up into an omicron-driven third wave of infections, experts guiding the Centre’s pandemic response said on Tuesday as the country’s omicron count rose to 200. The experts said the apparent lack of...
More »US Inflation and India’s Economic Recovery -Prabhat Patnaik
-NetworkIdeas.org The very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the US inflation rate. The inflation rate in November 2021 over November of the preceding year had been 6.8 per cent in the US, which was higher than the corresponding rate in any month over the previous 40 years; in particular, petrol prices...
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