Food protectionism ramps up as Indonesia bans palm oil exportsThe move adds to the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which plunged the global edible oil market into disarray. With food costs surg...
India wakes up to yet another inflation risk as pressure builds on FMCG marginsIn the latest development to pose upside risks to India’s inflation, Indonesia announced a ban on exports of palm oil on Friday in order to...
View: Hands on Healthy DataOne of the key concerns about the data pertaining to India is that it has been collected outside the regular data-collection machinery of t...
Citing WHO data, Centre says India has 'lowest' 374 COVID-19 deaths per million populationThe minister was responding to a question on recent reports showing India having the highest number of deaths during the Covid pandemic and...
Reports related to LIC IPO claiming massive Covid deaths in 2021 speculative: GovtThe govt said that the media report related to LIC IPO has mentioned the details of policies and claims settled by the insurer to make a “s...
8 vaccines, 4 treatments in India's COVID-19 arsenalMeanwhile, India logged 653 cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus across 21 states and UTs so far out of which 186 have recovered or ...
Govt considering scientific evidences on vaccination of kids in 12 to 17 yrs group: MoS HealthThe National Expert Group on vaccine administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) and the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI)...
RBD Act changes to make it easy for adoptees, kids of single parentsCritics of the amendments have questioned the need to centralise the data, and the overwhelming importance placed on birth certificates, bu...
Beware of fake death, birth papers: Registrar General of IndiaHome ministry officials said the advisory was sent by the RGI to states in the wake of reports of fake birth and death certificates issued ...
COVID-19:SC asks Centre to reconsider decision to exclude compensation for those who died by suicideThe top court was considering the fresh guidelines issued by the Centre to simplify the process of issuance of death certificates, as per t...
Health ministry, ICMR have issued guidelines for 'official document' for Covid deaths: Centre to SCAccording to the guidelines, the deaths occurring due to poisoning, suicide, homicide and deaths due to accident, among others, will not be...
Sebi may allow FPIs to trade commodity futures listed on local exchanges‘Foreign eligible entities’ are allowed to ‘hedge’ their positions in a domestic commodity exchange after submitting all documents to demon...
136 missing people whose body not found to be 'presumed dead': Uttarakhand OfficialSixty-eight bodies have so far been recovered after the February 7 disaster. There is a tunnel in which around 35 people are suspected to h...
CIC asks Registrar General of India to change its data collection procedureInformation Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad, in an important order, issued directives to make changes in the software and practices of the R...
Budget 2014: Impact on FMCG and pharma & healthcare sectorsFMCG companies engaged in the manufacture of soap would ensure some savings on their raw material cost bill.
- Spot market sizzles on futures ban
The ban on commodity futures has fired up spot markets as traders use the lack of transparent price discovery and gaps in information to ma...
- Palmoline, groundnut oils down upto Rs 100
Wholesale prices of Palmoline and groundnut mill delivery oils during this week fell upto Rs 100 a quintal in the national capital on incre...