-The Telegraph The farmer groups and activists campaigning against GM crops also said government scientists had violated the Centre’s undertaking to the court by planting GM mustard in Bharatpur, Kanpur, Jhansi, Ludhiana, Sriganganagar, and Varanasi earlier this month New Delhi: SECtions of farmers, activists, and scientists on Monday accused the Centre of misleading the Supreme Court by claiming that genetically-modified mustard is not herbicide-tolerant and that it will help reduce the country’s...

Like the fight against poverty and hunger, the progress made by mankind against tuberculosis (TB) in the years up to 2019 has either slowed, stalled, or reversed, and global TB targets are off track due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, although the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB decreased from 7.1 million to 5.8 million between 2019 and 2020, the number went up to 6.4 million in 2021....

-The Hindu Business Line PhonePe - ZestMoney deal to set precedence for fintechs to explore backdoor entry into the lending business  Despite three months of engagement and continued discussions with the banking regulator, fintechs may not have cracked the code yet to operate as non-bank lenders. Highly placed sources say the Reserve Bank of India is reluctant to issue non-bank finance company or NBFC licences to fintechs. PhonePe, Razorpay, BharatPe, Khatabook, OkCredit and...

-Hindustan Times Union minister of state for health, Bharati Pravin Pawar, while presenting India’s national statement on combating AMR at the Third Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance recently said that India was prioritising development and implementation of state action plans for containment of AMR across SECtors India plans to strengthen its network of antimicrobial resistance surveillance labs that it set up to monitor the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) situation in the...

-ThePrint.in Wage ceiling, mobility of lower-end workers, smaller establishments willfully avoiding registrations among factors that make EPF data flawed indicator, they assert New Delhi: While the government often cites monthly data from the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) — the latest edition of which was released on Friday —  to show that formal SECtor employment is growing in India, economists say that the data is flawed, prone to inflation and captures only...