-Livemint.com Farmers’ welfare is a multi-dimensional issue, with the farm ministry playing a small but significant role Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to rename the ministry of agriculture to ministry of agriculture and farmers’ welfare may be symbolic, but is at the least a recognition of the stress in rural economy. The stress, particularly in the farming sector, is now all too obvious with the increase in suicides being reported in many...
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SC deals body blow to FSSAI -Arnab Dutta & Viveat Susan Pinto
-Livemint.com Says product approval advisories by the food safety regulator are invalid The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of food companies in a case questioning the product approval advisories issued by the Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The matter, from last year, has a far-reaching implication for packaged food majors, as it clears the air on product approvals pertaining to proprietary or non-standardised food items. The present ruling...
More »States united against no-fail policy for schools
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Education ministers and representatives from every state today pressed for revoking the no-detention policy till Class VIII and bringing back the system of performance based promotions that the Right To Education Act had done away with five years ago. The meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) also heard suggestions to make Class X board exams compulsory. Ministers from 19 states and representatives from others said the...
More »Foodgrain output down by 5 per cent in 2014-15
-Deccan Herald India’s food grain output for 2014-15 fell by nearly five per cent owing to poor monsoon and untimely rainfall last year. The Fourth Advance Estimates of production of major crop pegged the farm output at 252.68 million tonnes – about 4.66 per cent lower than that of 2013-14. The farm sector is set for yet another year of low production as the weather office on Monday forecast 12 per cent...
More »The truth that gets filtered out in the business of water -Sudhirendar Sharma
-The Hindu The demand for a reverse osmosis water filter device has been growing in my household. ‘Has our existing water filter stopped being friendly?’ has been my consistent query. ‘It is time we got a new one’ has been the standard response. Considered to be one of that generation to whom the ‘utility’ of a product carries a lot of meaning, listing the virtues of new technology has often been...
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