-Livemint.com * Amid soaring cooking oil prices, India has a new plan to grow oil palm locally. Is the solution worse than the problem? * India plans to add about 2.5 million tonnes of home grown crude palm oil by 2030. Its ₹11,000-cr national mission on oil palm focuses on north-east and Andaman and Nicobar Islands M V. Ramoji Rao is a seasoned dentist and a busy one too. It’s not easy to...
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Big Pharma– Maximum Earnings, Minimum Responsibilities -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in The pandemic has again exposed the true nature of capitalism with profit being the primary driver irrespective of the rising inequalities. The contrast between the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihood of the working-class population and the soaring Profits of big pharma companies in the corresponding period is abhorrent. Please click here to read more. ...
More »The Global Minimum Corporate Tax: Not High Enough, Not Fair Enough -CP Chandrasekhar
-TheIndiaForum.in ‘While the global minimum tax proposal is a step forward, that step is disappointingly short of what is needed and possible.’ Following years of negotiations, most nations in the world now appear to be willing to align their corporate tax regimes to prevent multinationals from evading taxation in the jurisdictions in which they operate. They have now tentatively agreed on the need for a global minimum corporate tax rate and a...
More »Global Fashion Brands Caused Humanitarian Crisis in 6 Asian Countries During Pandemic, Says Report -Ditsa Bhattacharya
-Newsclick.in Nearly 93% of the Indian garment workers were pushed below the international poverty line of the World Bank in April and May, 2020 Garment workers lost a significant amount of wage during the pandemic in six Asian countries including India. Workers’ wages were at poverty levels even before the pandemic, and were pushed further below the International Poverty Line in their countries by the pandemic, according to a recent report titled...
More »Organic production and consumption is on the rise in Rajasthan, finds CUTS International project report
-Press release by CUTS International dated 5th July, 2021 In a study done by CUTS International under its 4-years old project -- ProOrganic, almost 97.4 percent of consumers were found to be aware of the fact that chemical input-based food products are harmful for health compared to 86 percent of the same set of consumers way back in 2017. Similarly, the percentage of farmers doing organic farming has gone up to...
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