-Livemint.com * This decision will soften the prices of edible oils in the domestic market * The high prices of edible oil in international market has a substantial impact on the domestic edible oil prices In a landmark decision, the Department of Food and Public Distribution has imposed stock limits on Edible Oils and Oilseeds for a period upto 31st March, 2022. In a release the department said, the Removal of Licensing Requirements, Stock...

-The Hindu ‘Private hospitals procure vaccines directly from manufacturers, so no data available’ The Health Ministry says it does not know how many COVID-19 vaccines were procured by private players, nor does it have separate data on how many vaccine doses were administered by private hospitals and service providers, according to its response to a Right to Information request filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd). Despite the fact that the government had reserved...

-The Hindu They have not got many of the benefits that the new laws threaten to take away. As the movement against the agricultural reform laws builds towards its one year anniversary, it is clear that the bulk of farmers in eastern Indian States have not been as motivated to join the agitation as their counterparts in the northwest, as they have not even experienced many of the benefits that the laws...

-The Hindu Senior journalist and writer Appu Esthose Suresh starts a Gandhi-inspired platform to filter fake news and hate speeches From communal riots to transistor blasts and crimes of passion, Delhi is no stranger to felonies but the greatest criminal offence in the national capital was committed on January 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead at a prayer meeting by Nathuram Godse. In a newly published book — The Murderer, The...

-The Hindu The Congress, the NCP and the Shiv Sena have called for a Maharashtra bandh on October 11 against the killings of the farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri Three days after all three ruling parties in Maharashtra — the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena — called for a State bandh against the killings of the farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, the Samyukt Shetkari Kamgar Morcha...