-The Hindu Keen to be parallel repository of data, along with States The Centre has proposed amendments to a 1969 law that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered birth and deaths at the national level”. The database may be used to update the Population Register and the electoral register, and Aadhaar, ration card, passport and driving LICence databases, says the proposed amendment to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act...

-Livemint.com * This decision will soften the prices of edible oils in the domestic market * The high prices of edible oil in international market has a substantial impact on the domestic edible oil prices In a landmark decision, the Department of Food and PubLIC Distribution has imposed stock limits on Edible Oils and Oilseeds for a period upto 31st March, 2022. In a release the department said, the Removal of LICensing Requirements, Stock...

-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & PubLIC Distribution The Department of Food and PubLIC Distribution in a landmark decision has imposed stock limits on Edible Oils and Oilseeds for a period upto 31st March, 2022. The Removal of LICensing Requirements, Stock Limits and Movement Restrictions on Specified Foodstuffs (Amendment) Order, 2021 has been issued with immediate effect i.e. from 8th September, 2021.Future trading on Mustard Oil and Oilseeds was...

-The Telegraph Inequality remains integral to India’s growth story This year marks three decades of market-friendly economic reforms introduced in 1991 by the P.V. Narasimha Rao administration. Manmohan Singh was considered the mastermind behind breaking the shackles of the LICense-permit raj, an inefficient government, a stifled private sector, and a strictly controlled import regime. All these led to low economic growth, large incidence of poverty, an inefficient, unwieldy pubLIC sector, and pervasive...

-TheWire Science * The Indian government has consistently discouraged compulsory LICenses on generic drugs.   * One of the big questions the India government has not answered is why it isn’t using pharma PSUs to produce drugs and vaccines. * Not one member of Indian industry is willing to stand up and fight for compulsory LICenses, and for patients, says lawyer Murali Neelakantan. India has played a crucial role in supporting South Africa, as a...