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Recent rainfall unlikely to damage major crops will boost production: Agriculture Secretary
"No damage has been reported so far due to sudden rainfall. It will...
SC issues notice to Centre on plea seeking national guidelines on heatwave
A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine...
Health ministry includes coronary stents in National List of Essential Medicines, 2022
Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and vaccines were among 34 new additions to the National List of Essential Medicines released on September 13, taking the total number of drugs under it to 3 New Delhi: The Union health ministry has notified the inclusion of...
Govt to publish frameworks to check fake reviews on e-commerce websites
"After consultation with stakeholders, we have finalised frameworks to counter fake reviews. The BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) has also come out with a standard. The frameworks for fake review management will be published next week," Govt to publish frameworks to...
World has waited far too long for this: India on compensation fund approved at UN climate talk
''We note that we are establishing a four-year work program on climate action in agriculture and food security. Agriculture, the mainstay of livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers, will be hard hit from climate change. So, we should not burden them with...
Punjab to implement Old Pension Scheme, state cabinet okays notification
State government contribution towards the pension corpus will be Rs 1,000 crore per annum initially and will gradually increase in future. In addition to this, the current accumulated corpus with NPS is Rs 16,746 crore for which the state government will request...
Farmers to continue protest in Odisha’s Padampur over non-payment of insurance dues
Narendra Singh Tomar,Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister In the face of the farmers' agitation, Union Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in a Twitter post said: "In the process of settlement of insurance claims of disputed...
MP: Youth kills father for Rs 10 lakh insurance money in Barwani, arrested
When the police team check the CCTV footage and cyber reports, they grew suspicious and interrogated the people concerned then it came to light that Anil along with three others hatched a conspiracy to kill his father Barwani, Madhya Pradesh: A youth hatched a...
Govt raises maximum tenure of PSU banks’ CEO to 10 years
As per a government notification dated November 17, 2022, the term for the appointment has been extended to 10 years, from the earlier 5 years, subject to superannuation age of 60 years The decision of the government would help banks to retain the talent who rise to...
SC refuses to entertain pleas on two-child norm for controlling population
The plea said the high court failed to appreciate that the right to clean air, right to drinking water, right to health, right to peaceful sleep, right to shelter, right to livelihood and right to education guaranteed under Articles 21 and 21A of the Constitution...
Analysis: India power binges on coal, outpaces Asia
India’s government has said it was committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2070, and official data reviewed by Reuters shows that renewable energy generation grew 21% in March to October, even as coal use for power increased. MUMBAI: India's coal-fired power output...
Govt proposes penalty of up to Rs 500 cr for data breach under Data Protection Bill
The draft bill, renamed as The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, has laid out the conditions for collecting data and the consent of the people whose data would be processed. New Delhi: The government has raised the penalty amount to up to Rs 500 crore for...