-Reuters Govt is considering Rs3-5 hike in diesel prices The government will decide on raising the retail prices of diesel and cooking gas (LPG) in a few weeks, the oil secretary said on Thursday, in a bid to cut the biggest item in its import Bill and support the local currency. India, the world's fourth-biggest oil consumer, is considering a Rs 3 to Rs 5 hike in the price of diesel, which...
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Huge tobacco use in India seen killing 1.5 million a year
-Reuters Tobacco inflicts huge damage on the health of India's people and could be clocking up a death toll of 1.5 million a year by 2020 if more users are not persuaded to kick the habit, an international report said on Thursday. Despite having signed up to a global treaty on tobacco control and having numerous anti-tobacco and smoke-free laws, India is failing to implement them effectively, leaving its people vulnerable to...
More »KV Thomas promises transparency in PDS
-The Hindu Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said that thrust will be given in developing additional storage capacity in the State for food grains in view of the implementation of the Food Security Bill. He was speaking at a ‘Meet-the-Press' programme here on Wednesday. The Minister said that two new godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) with 5,000 tonnes capacity...
More »India gets WHO praise for no polio case in last 30 months
-PTI WHO today lauded India's efforts in eradicating polio and said the country has not reported a single case of polio in the last 30 months. "You did it. For 30 months you have not got a single case of polio," WHO Director General Margaret Chan said while addressing the meeting of Health Ministers of South-East Asia Region in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee. She said India achieved the feat even as...
More »Stringent Safety Norms in Agriculture after NBRA: Centre
-Outlook Gandhinagar: A more stringent safety regime will be in place for genetic engineering in agriculture or medical sciences once the National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA) Bill is cleared by Parliament, a senior official said here today. "The NBRA Bill has been introduced in Parliament and being debated. Once it (bill) is cleared, a more stringent safety regime shall be in place for genetic engineering, be it in the agriculture space or...
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