Adulteration in Milk is harmful to health even while it is an unfair trade practices. Further, it is a market fraud and affects the honest efforts of the milk producers. Government of India has enacted Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act -2006 in August 2006 to consolidate the laws relating to food
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For Uttar Pradesh Indian Sugar Mills Association's (ISMA) September 28 advance estimates had pegged sugar production this season at 76.60 lt, up from 68.55 lt in 2015-16. But as on April 18, mills in UP had already produced 85.27 lt. With 52 out of the 116 factories still running, the final output
An inspiring story from Jharkhand where doctors of a government hospital in Daltonganj town of Palamu district, donated blood for an unidentified 14 year old boy. When the boy was brought to the hospital he had near-zero pulse rate and severe external injuries. The doctors and staff of this hospital
This is the story of Chanka village under Srinagar block of Purnea dist of Bihar. This village has about 4,000 tribals, and is identified as a hub of manufacture, sale and consumption of country liquor. Once when Purnea SP Nishant Tiwari reached Chanka the locals were apprehensive. However in this
We often here of how government schools are ill-equipped and the education being provided is so bad. But instead of just criticising this when one starts thinking of solutions changes do come. Today's Indian Express gives a story by its reporter Alifiya Khan, which talks of how the local community
पंचायतों की निर्वाचित महिला प्रतिनिधियों के लिए राष्ट्र-व्यापी प्रशिक्षण कार्यक्रम लांच किया गया (English news given below) महिला और बाल विकास मंत्रालय ने आज पंचायती राज मंत्रालय के सहयोग से पंचायतों की महिला निर्वाचित प्रतिनिधियों की क्षमता सृजन के लिए व्यापक मॉड्यूल और पूरे देश में महिला पंचायत
The agriculture ministry in consultation with the Niti Aayog has identified a set of nine marketing reforms to ensure remunerative prices to farmers for their produce by reducing intervention of middlemen. It may be mentioned that the Narendra Modi government had made its resolve to double farmers
1150 children were rescued by the railway police last year on the Central Railways’ Mumbai division. And out of these 1150 children Rekha Mishra came to the aid of 434 children. 32-year-old Rekha Mishra hails from Allahabad, comes from an Army family. Her father, Surendra Narayan, is a retired army
We come across, almost daily, of some news related to the Aadhar card. Sometimes we hear of government announcing new services which will be linked to the Aadhar, sometimes on some order of Court on this, sometimes politicians talking about it and so on. And rightly so, as more than 105 cr Indians
The Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India held a national consultation with SHG women of all States and UTs on “transforming lives through livelihoods thrust and Strategy for Poverty Free Gram Panchayats” at Pragati Maidan on 14th April, 2017. The event also marked the inauguration of a
At present National Centre of Seismology (NCS) , Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), maintains a National Seismological Network (NSN) comprising of 84 (eighty four) digital (Electronic) permanent seismological field stations. NCS is in process of installation of 31 more new seismological
Grape Mundo, an Android mobile application developed by Rta Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Nashik-based software consultancy firm, is an open source app freely downloadable on Google Play Store This app helps farmers chalk out a schedule for application of inputs, based on best practices followed by