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Petrol and Diesel Prices on the Rise After Polls in India

-Newsclick.in The oil marketing companies are arguing that the continuous increase in prices this week is due to the 15 days trail in domestic prices of fuel as compared to international markets. As a result of the regular hike since the past six days, there is an increase of 0.50 paisa for petrol and 1.04 paisa for diesel all over India. The price of petroleum products had been kept at a moderate...

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After elections, oil marketing firms hike petrol, diesel prices

-The Hindu Petrol prices rise 8-10 p, diesel rates climb 15-16 p: IOCL data State-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) increased prices of petrol and diesel across the country on Monday, a day after the last phase of Lok Sabha polls concluded. This could mark the beginning of a rising trend in fuel prices as they are once again aligned to the rising global oil prices. Petrol prices rose 8-10 paise, and diesel...

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India's Missing Agricultural Data -Siraj Hussain

-TheWire.in With respect to agriculture, a lot of data is either not available or is released with delay. Often, it is inconsistent with other data sets. At the recent Vibrant Gujarat summit, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani said, “In this new world, data is the new oil. And data is the new wealth. India’s data must be controlled and owned by Indian people and not by corporates, especially global corporations.” The data of...

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MSP intervention: A different surplus -Harish Damodaran

-The Indian Express The unprecedented procurement of pulses and oilseeds in the last couple of years has created problems — and opportunities. If there’s one area in agriculture where the Narendra Modi government has probably broken fresh ground, it is in the procurement of pulses and oilseeds.   During the 2016-17 and 2017-18 agricultural years (July-June), the Central agencies — National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed), Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC)...

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Is genetically modified food really safe? -Rajat Chaudhuri

-The Telegraph Indians are unwittingly eating more and more genetically modified (GM) products every day A few months ago, researchers of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) chanced upon something quite alarming while testing samples of breakfast cereals, infant food, edible oils and other food products at their state-of-the-art laboratory in Nimli, Rajasthan. Their sensitive qPCR instrument reported the presence of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in almost one-third of these...

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