-The Hindu Business Line Registration with regulator a must; may inspect units Meenakshi Verma Ambwani To ensure the import of safe food products, the FSSAI has notified a new regulatory framework for foreign facilities that bring food items to India. Under the regulations, foreign food manufacturing facilities that make products in certain categories for export to India will need to register with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India and may also...

-Hindustan Times While demonetisation was subsequently described as a policy boost to promoting digital payments, the original policy had very different stated targets. November 8, 2021 marks five years of demonetisation in India. On this day in 2016, in a televised address at 8 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that currency notes of ₹500 and ₹1000 -- these two denominations were 86% of the currency in circulation at the time in...

 -Scroll.in There must be consultation and greater co-ordination between the Reserve Bank as the regulator of money supply and the government as the sovereign. While the entire Indian economy was disrupted by the demonetisation exercise announced on November 8, 2016, removing high-value currency notes overnight, it simultaneously stirred a serious controversy on the role of Reserve Bank of India as the principal regulator of money supply in India. In understanding the controversial conduct...

-The Hindu Business Line It is an important tool for agrarian families to manage and mitigate their risks Agriculture plays a pivotal role in the Indian economy, especially in rural areas. According to the recently-released Situational Assessment and Land Holdings of Agricultural Households in Rural India Report (SAS, 2019) by the National Statistics Office, 54 per cent of rural households are agricultural, earning 37 per cent of their household income from farming.  This sector, however, is also subject to a...

-The Hindu Business Line Seeks CCI intervention to procure the natural fibre; traders point to global trend The Indian textile industry has begun expressing concern over soaring cotton prices in global and domestic markets, with some even raising fears that the natural fibre is being hoarded. In a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Southern India Mills Association (SIMA) Chairman Ravi Sam called for steps to stabilise cotton prices, particularly when the country...