-Moneycontrol.com The world's biggest rice exporter could see lower production as sowing has Been 6 percent lower than the previous season India, the world’s largest rice exporter, could ban exports amid sub-par sowing this season, Nomura said on August 30. “Will India ban rice exports? We think the risk is non-negligible,” Sonal Varma, Nomura's chief economist for India and Asia (excluding Japan), said in a note. “Following the Russia-Ukraine war, soaring maize prices prompted...
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Uttar Pradesh: One dead, nearly 2.4 lakh people in 22 districts affected by floods
-PTI/DNA Uttar Pradesh rains: 26 teams of NDRF and SDRF have Been pressed into action while food packets are being distributed in the flooded areas. One person has died in floods that have affected nearly 2.4 lakh people in over 1,000 villages of Uttar Pradesh's 22 districts, officials said on Tuesday. According to them, of the 1,079 flood-affected villages, 153 have Been cut off from the rest of the state. As many as...
More »If India Is To Fight Corruption, the Focus Must Be on Dam Projects -Amit Ranjan
-TheWire.in While the dam breach in Madhya Pradesh's Karam river is a recent example of poor construction quality, the politician-contractor-engineer nexus in these projects has long Been known. In his eighth Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2022, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the need to fight against corruption and nepotism. Highlighting the steps his government has taken to check corruption, Modi said: “In the...
More »Why do unethical pharma practices thrive? -T Srikrishna and S Srinivasan
-The Hindu Business Line The laws concerned are riddled with loopholes. A mandatory, enforceable code for ethical pharmaceutical marketing is a must The recent kerfuffle over a particular brand of the painkiller paracetamol 650 mg tablet is not really over the particular brand as much as about the unethical marketing tactics of the pharmaceutical industry in India. Gone are the days when a mere ball-point pen or a diary from a medical representative...
More »Chhattisgarh CM approves Rs 500 crore for repair and maintenance of school buildings
-IndiaToday.in Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has approved Rs 500 crore for the repair and maintenance of school buildings. The chief secretary has Been given instructions to carry out the implementation of the same. The instructions state: "To ensure smooth education in all the schools, the work of repairing the schools should be started immediately as soon as the rainy season ends." COMPLAINTS ABOUT STATE OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS The chief minister had received information...
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