-The New Indian Express The market buzz is that at Kandla port in Gujarat, from where maida is traded abroad, the price has touched around Rs 3,000 per Quintal. CHANDIGARH: The prices of maida (refined wheat flour) are soaring due to escalating international prices following the Ukraine conflict. The result is bakery products such as bread and biscuits could be costlier soon. Sources said the price of wheat has touched Rs 2,350 per...
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Progress in health and education can help in population stabilisation
With the release of a UNDESA report on the World Population Day this year i.e., July 11, once again the debate on who's responsible for the population growth in India has resurfaced. Titled World Population Prospects 2022, the report states that the global population is expected to touch 8 billion on November 15, 2022, and India is projected to exceed China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. As soon as...
More »Sex Workers Need to be Seen as Labour, Not Victims -Anita Tagore
-TheWire.in The re-conceptualisation of sex work as a form of sexual labour will increase sex workers’ accessibility to resources, mobilise them for representation and participation, and challenge social exclusion. One of the most unsettling debates in contemporary India has been on sex markets and sex work. Stemming from obscurantist sexual moorings of orthodoxy, the public impulse has been fragmentary. The premise underlying the internal contradiction is the delusive alienation of labour and sex. There...
More »Answer to climate shocks? Heat-resistant wheat from ICAR hits markets, ‘grows in 100 days’ -Mohana Basu
-ThePrint.in 'Pusa Ahilya' or HI 1634 is said to allow later sowing without risk of heatwave effects, and have a high yield potential of 70.6 Quintals per hectare. New Delhi: At a time when wheat farmers across the country are reeling from poor harvests due a scorching March, scientists at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have released a new heat-resistant variety of the crop. Known as HI 1634 or ‘Pusa Ahilya’,...
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-The Hindu Business Line MSP signalling in favour of oilseeds, pulses should be backed up by credible procurement steps In announcing the minimum support prices for the kharif season, the Centre has rightly stuck to its plan of trying to wean away acreage from rice, particularly in rainfed areas, to pulses and oilseeds. This has been its policy since 2015, and it has resulted in output gains and increased acreage in pulses,...
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