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Zero-budget natural farming could lead to yield loss: Panel -Sandip Das

-Financial Express According to Rao, the ICAR committee went through more than 1,400 scientific journals on various methods of promotion of sustainable agriculture besides interacting with farmers who have claimed to have adopted ZBNF across seven states. Large scale adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)  — farm practices which exclude all synthetic chemical inputs and promote use of on-farm biomass — would result in ‘tremendous reduction’ in production of agricultural crops...

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Misleading Picture of Household Wealth -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org In recent years, when the economy as a whole performed poorly, reports on how old and new businesspersons accumulated huge volumes of wealth in short timespans have been commonplace. There is also evidence that conspicuous consumption is on the rise. This has led observers to conclude that income and wealth inequality in India has increased. Hard evidence on the extent of that increase is difficult to...

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Everyone Will Get Omicron, Boosters Won't Stop It: Top Medical Expert -Akhil Kumar

-NDTV.com "A majority of us will not know we have been infected, probably more than 80% will not even know when we have it," said Dr. Jaiprakash Muliyil. New Delhi: The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is "almost unstoppable" and everyone will eventually be infected with it, a top government expert told NDTV. Booster vaccine doses won't stop the rapid spread of the virus, he added. ''It makes no difference. The infection will...

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Trade unions allege irregularities in CEL disinvestment -AM Jigeesh

-The Hindu Business Line Complain to CAG of undervaluation, bid rigging and cartelisation The sale of the public sector Central Electronics Ltd to Nandal Finance and Leasing Pvt Ltd is under the radar of the Comptroller and Auditor General following a complaint of bid rigging by the joint platform of trade unions, including the BMS. Though the CAG’s office is tight lipped about any action on the complaint, BusinessLine has learnt that it...

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In Two Corners of Bengal’s Coast, ‘Fire’ and Water Hold Women Hostage -Soumashree Sarkar and Pawanjot Kaur

-TheWire.in A ground report from two fishing villages, one in East Medinipur and the other in the Sundarban, reflects how various expressions of climate change leave a mark on health and wellbeing, especially of women. Jharkhali/ Nijkasba, West Bengal: It is easy to consider the south of West Bengal as an unwieldy side of the world that is acutely stricken by the climate crisis. Buzzwords like ‘salinity’, ‘storm surge’, ‘water-level rise’ and ‘ocean...

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