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Wheat production: India is better prepared than Pakistan to handle climate shocks

April 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Being part of the same landmass, conducive weather conditions in India and Pakistan are helping them to achieve record wheat output this year, but India, having developed many indigenous heat-resistant and short-duration seed varies, is better prepared than its neighbor to handle climate change impact, experts say. Globally, India and Pakistan […]

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Roving Periscope: “Mass death is imminent in Gaza,” says global hunger monitor

March 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The narrow Gaza Strip, which was densely populated with nearly 2.3 million Palestinians until October 7, 2023, is now staring at “mass deaths” because of the alarming famine affecting over a million internally displaced people in the wake of the ongoing conflict. which has turned the once-thriving region into a trail […]

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EFTA deal: Cheaper good from Switzerland, three other European nations coming into India

March 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: From next year, Indian customers will start getting access to high-quality Swiss products—watches, chocolates, biscuits, and clocks—at lower prices as India will phase out customs duties in the coming years under its just-concluded trade pact with the EFTA bloc on these goods. India and the four-European nation bloc EFTA signed a […]

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Price rise: CMIE’s inflation projections lower than RBI’s

March 4, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Contrary to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s projections, the leading economic think tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), said on Monday the country’s inflation may decline for two years in a row. It is likely to fall to 4.3 percent in 2024-25 from 5.4 percent in 2023-24, which […]

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Roving Periscope: “National extinction” fears worry China, Japan, South Korea, and more…

February 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Imagine China, the world’s most populous country until November 2023, reporting no new birth at all in two months of 2024… a South Korean businessman offering USD 75,000 as a bonus to each of his workers for producing a kid…and Japan is worried about its increasingly emptying roads… For, population, statisticians […]

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Cough syrup: Uzbekistan sentences Indian to 20 years in prison for 68 deaths

February 27, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid controversies surrounding Indian medicines exported to other countries, Uzbekistan on Monday sentenced an Indian national to a 20-year jail term for his alleged role in the death of 68 children after they consumed ‘contaminated’ cough syrups. Raghvendra Pratap Singh and 20 other people linked to the case were handed […]

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Agriculture: After sugarcane price hike, PM Modi says committed to farmers’ welfare

February 22, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Amid the Punjab farmers’ ongoing agitation on Haryana borders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday his government, which has just increased the minimum price that sugar mills have to pay to sugarcane growers, is committed to the welfare of all farmers in the country. After a Cabinet meeting, chaired […]

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Agriculture: India’s wheat production in 2024 to be “good,” says Munda

January 19, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With the completion of sowing of wheat, the main rabi (winter) crop, its production this year is expected to be “good,” Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda said on Friday. The sowing, which began in October 2023, was completed in various states, including the three top producers—Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and […]

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Poverty: ‘5 billion people are now poorer; the wealth of the 5 richest has doubled since 2020’

January 15, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic may have been a blessing in disguise for some and an existential crisis for many. For, the fortunes of the world’s five richest men have more than doubled since 2020, and nearly five billion people have already turned poorer in this “decade of division,” according to the […]

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2024: India to remain the world’s fastest-growing economy, says Assocham

December 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid a gloomy 2024 creeping into many recessionary economies worldwide three days from now, India’s leading business and industry body has predicted that the South Asian nation, currently the fifth-largest economy in the world, is likely to remain the fastest-growing as well in the new year beginning on Monday next. […]

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