-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto for $66 billion could trigger tremors in Indian agriculture. Stakeholders worry that the global consolidation will narrow choices for farmers. The merger will propel the merged entity into a leading player in the seed sector. Through their subsidiaries and joint ventures in India, the two firms will garner a major share in paddy, maize, vegetables and cotton and agrochemicals. “It will lead to concentration...
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Pulses send WPI racing to 2-year high
-The Hindu Business Line Hits 3.74% in August as potato, manufactured items get pricier New Delhi: Wholesale price inflation rose to a two-year high of 3.74 per cent in August pushed up by expensive pulses and potatoes as well as a sudden spike in prices of manufactured items. Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation was 3.55 per cent in July and had contracted by 5.06 per cent in August last year. Previously, WPI inflation...
More »NCRB goofs up on number of arrests under cyber law Sec 66A -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) conceded on Friday that its crime statistics for 2014 and 2015 had misreported cases registered under Section 66A, a cyber law under the Information Technology Act that was scrapped by the Supreme Court last year. The NCRB’s ‘Crime in India’ report released last month had put the number of people arrested under Section 66A at 3,137 in 2015 and 2423 in 2014. This implied...
More »Amma medical shops record sale of Rs. 1.17 crore -K Raju
-The Hindu THENI (Tamil Nadu): With a record sale of medicines, Amma Medical shop has become very popular among people in the district. It had sold medicines worth Rs.1.17 crore in the last two years, according to Collector N. Venkatachalam. In a press release here on Tuesday, he said that medicines were sold to more than 50,710 beneficiaries including 35,210 beneficiaries in Chinnamanur, 9,000 in Bodi, 6,500 in Periyakulam and the rest...
More »Production of kharif pulses seen surging 48% to 8.2 million tonnes -Vishwanath Kulkarni
-The Hindu Business Line Govt also revises Rabi target upwards to 14.4 million tonnes Bengaluru: Higher acreage, driven by the rebound in monsoon rainfall this year, is seen lifting the country’s pulses production by about 48 per cent in the current kharif season to around 8.22 million tonnes (mt) against 5.54 mt produced in the corresponding season last year, according to the Agriculture Ministry. Production of arhar or tur is seen up by...
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