-The Telegraph New Delhi: Politicians of various stripes have started to raise red flags about a provision in a bill that the Narendra Modi government intends to move in the Lok Sabha in the upcoming Winter session, which could theoretically allow beleaguered banks and financial institutions to scoop up depositors' money to stop them from going bust. It is called a "bail-in" - a concept coined during the European banking crisis of...
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Modi wants smog-free Delhi Winter; new steps soon to tackle air pollution -AK Bhattacharya
-Business Standard The brief for the task force is to ensure that the Winter of 2018 becomes pollution free. Remedial action, therefore, is likely in the next few months A package of measures to reduce air pollution levels significantly in the National Capital Region (NCR) around Delhi by the Winter of 2018 is expected to be formulated soon and implemented within a specified time frame. NCR covers the whole of the National...
More »Innovative Viable Solution to Rice Residue Burning in Rice-Wheat Cropping System through Concurrent Use of Super Straw Management System-fitted Combines and Turbo Happy Seeder -NAAS
-National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) This policy brief, developed by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, to address the roblem of air pollution due to crop residue burning, provides an innovative viable solution to check burning of rice residues, which is a major contributor to air pollution in the early Winter months in North-West plains of India. The Academy hopes that the Central and State Governments of the affected States...
More »Egg prices hits a high, now as costly as chicken -Harish Damodaran & Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Considering that egg production isn’t going to recover as fast as broiler, consumers may have to wait for a few weeks for prices to ease. New Delhi/ Pune: Egg prices have gone through the roof, so much so that at current retail rates of around Rs 7 per piece, it may be more worthwhile for people to eat chicken instead. Poultry farmers in the Pune region are now selling eggs...
More »Delhi,NCR towns need to fight air pollution together -Shivani Singh
-Hindustan Times While Delhi came under flak for running fewer buses than that it did three years ago and therefore failing to enforce blanket road rationing, compliance of even basic anti-pollution measures was impossible in the NCR because of poor infrastructure. The Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) mandated by the Supreme Court to counter air pollution was meant to be an effort in regional cooperation. The entire National Capital Region (NCR), which...
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