-Outlook According to local TV channels, people have accused Patanjali of distributing old milk powder and juice packets. Some products expired in October last year. Yoga guru Ramdev’s food and Ayurvedic products company Patanjali is once again in the news for a wrong reason, as it has allegedly distributed expired products to people affected by floods in Assam. According to local TV channels, people have accused Patanjali of distributing old milk powder and...
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Reverse swing: 900 students choose this Delhi govt school over private ones -Heena Kausar
-Hindustan Times The government Sarvodaya co-ed senior secondary school in Rohini Sector 21, which was opened on April 1, boasts of a swanky building with 69 rooms, including Yoga room, music room, mathematics laboratory, and science laboratory. Dressed in a blue shirt, navy blue pants and a matching tie, Class 11 student Harsh Rawat feels no different studying at a government school than what he used to at a nearby private school...
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-The Indian Express Agriculture cannot survive without them. But they are invisible in the current conversation on the agrarian crisis An ex-company executive-cum-economist turns to the anchor during a discussion on the farmers’ agitation. “Overpopulation is destroying the farming activity. There are simply too many mouths to feed and the farms are shrinking. We must look to the urban areas for creating new jobs,” he says. The man at the local paan...
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-The Indian Express Several farmers’ outfits, which met in Delhi on Monday, have also announced that they would launch a jail bharo agitation from August 9, on which date the Quit India Movement began in 1942. Chandigarh: FARMERS from Haryana and other states, who have been agitating on host of issues, will reach Delhi on July 3 to gherao the Niti Aayog office in the national capital and start an indefinite dharna...
More »Centre gears up to expand direct transfers to all 536 schemes -Surabhi
-The Hindu Business Line At present only 84 Central schemes are under DBT New Delhi: Hoping to give a push to its ambitious scheme for cash transfer of subsidies, the Centre is in talks with nodal ministries and implementing agencies to expand the ambit of direct benefit transfer and Aadhaar seeding to all 536 schemes by the end of the year. “The objective is that service providers as well as service receivers in...
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