By Sanjeeb Mukherjee After a steady surge, prices of pulses, except those of urad and masoor to some extent, are showing signs of stabilising amid a revival of monsoon rains over major growing areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka, and on expectations of a rise in imports. Chana prices, which too had moved up in recent
By Shreya Nandi and Sanjeeb Mukherjee India’s recent move to remove additional ‘retaliatory’ duty on eight products from the United States (US), including apples and walnuts, would not have any negative impact on the domestic producers, the government clarified, even as the issue threatened to snowball into a political slugfest between the ruling and Opposition
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The last few years have been uncharacteristically good for the Indian sugar sector for a variety of reasons.
While on the one hand, the weather supported good crop production; on the other hand, the programme to blend ethanol with petrol took off in a big way.
The long-pending problem of burgeoning sugarcane arrears almost came down to nil and exports boomed to record highs.
The 33 academicians who have also asked NCERT to drop their names from political science textbooks include Kanti Prasad Bajpai, the former JNU professor who currently serves as the vice dean at National University Singapore; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the former vice-chancellor of Ashoka University; Rajeev Bhargava among others.