-Medianama.com Accusing e-commerce platforms of openly flouting FDI rules, traders’ body CAIT has asked Finance Minister Piyush Goyal to conduct an investigation into and place a blanket Ban on festival sales by e-commerce companies for indulging in “predatory pricing” and “deep discounting”. Praveen Khandelwal, national secretary-general of CAIT, wrote to the minister on September 13 (see letter below), with “substantial evidence” of e-commerce companies indulging in predatory pricing and deep discounting. CAIT...
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Can we prevent rural suicides? Yes, it is possible, says a recent WHO-FAO publication
Almost one in every five suicides in the world is committed by self-poisoning with pesticide, which mostly occur in rural, agricultural areas of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), states a new publication entitled 'Preventing Suicide: A resource for pesticide registrars and regulators'. Published jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the booklet says that the adoption of green revolution technology...
More »India in no shape to benefit from RCEP -Biswajit Dhar
-The Hindu Business Line Joining the RCEP could be counter-productive given the existing inefficiencies of Indian producers. These need to be fixed first To be or not to be, that is the question … This seems to be the best way of describing India’s engagement in the negotiations for adopting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the mega regional trade agreement of 16 East Asian countries. When the Bangkok round of the...
More »Order Banning 5 pesticides issued -Shishir Arya
-The Times of India NAGPUR: After a question was raised by TOI in a press conference addressed by state agriculture minister Dr Anil Bonde, a notification to impose a temporary Ban on five pesticide formulations was issued on Thursday. The Ban will be in force in Amravati division, especially Akola and Yavatmal districts for 60 days. Bonde had signed the order over a week ago, but the order had not reached the department’s...
More »Why are resident Indians remitting more money abroad than ever before?
-TheWire.in From $1 billion in 2012 to over $13 billion in 2018, higher remittances could indicate greater spending abroad as rich Indians look to diversify or the beginnings of a flight of capital. New Delhi: Indians sent more money out of the country than ever before in July 2019 under the liberalised remittance scheme (LRS), in a development that comes even as the Narendra Modi government looks to attract foreign direct...
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