-Business Standard Rajasthan has amended The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (promotion and facilitation) Act, 2020 to restore what it calls 'the safeguards for the farmers of the state' as under state's APMC Act The Congress-ruled states’ PLAn to nullify the three central laws on agricultural markets and provide for alternatives of their own for protection of famer interest, especially on prices for their produce has been executed with three states of...

-The Hindu Chennai: It is the only State which goes entirely by RT-PCR testing, says Health Secretary Nearly nine months after it started testing samples for COVID-19, Tamil Nadu on Sunday hit the milestone of one crore tests using RT-PCR kits. “Tamil Nadu is the only State which goes entirely by RT-PCR testing. With laboratories in all districts, the State’s capacity is over one lakh tests per day,” Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan said. With...

-The Hindu Business Line More than 16,000 responses from citizens across 242 districts were received Mumbai: Community social media PLAtform LocalCircles conducted a survey to understand how much extra people were paying to purchase a kilogram of onions, potatoes and tomatoes. This comes as consumers show discernment over the rising price of these vegetables for the last two months. The survey also intended to understand the average amount a household paid this year...

-The Hindu There is a strong case to attribute a more robust responsibility to PLAtform companies and the State The Code on Social Security Bill, 2020, for the first time in Indian law, attempted to define ‘PLAtform work’ outside of the traditional employment category. It says: “PLAtform work means a work arrangement outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship in which organisations or individuals use an online PLAtform to access other organisations or...

-Newsclick.in The WSJ report highlighted how important the Indian market was for the business of Facebook, as the PLAtform is banned in China, the only other country with the potential of a billion customers. Ankhi Das, who through her own interpretation of her role as public policy director of Facebook in India gave a tinge of saffron to the social media giant’s blue colour scheme, has finally exited the India operations. She...