India currently consumes only one-third energy of the world average. As we move towards more robust energy consumption figures, India faces the unique challenge of seaming together disparate, competing needs: a ballooning appetite while cutting dependence on imports, greening the grid while ensuring affordability, replacing old sources of energy production …
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Chandigarh-Mohali, December 29, 2020: A good food is an opportunity to keep alive taste buds and with this sole motive ‘Anardana’, an upcoming national food chain, opened its ‘Anardana Modern Kitchen & Bar’ in Chandigarh at city Emporium Mall, Industrial Area, Phase-1, in Chandigarh. The much-awaited restaurant, offering world-class cuisines …
New agri-trade laws have provided options to farmers to choose their buyer and the prices to sell their products with or without commission. This freedom of trade gives bargaining power to farmers. In order to protect their monopoly on commission and other commercial interests, the commission agents and traders mobilized …
Some acts and deeds are of such a profound quality that they can have the effect of changing the course of history. Yet, these do not always resonate in our consciousness. The martyrdom of the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji is a case in point. Sahibzada Zorawar …
SRINAGAR, 26 December 2020 – India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday. The District Council election, concluded early this week, was the …
NEW DELHI 26 December 2020 – Leaders of Indian farmers’ unions have agreed to meet ministers on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a seventh-round of talks with the government which has so far failed to mollify growers who say three new agricultural laws threaten their livelihoods. Worried over farmers’ …
MUMBAI 26 December 2020 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that protests by farmers against three laws brought by his government were politically motivated, as he touted the success of an agricultural scheme launched last year. Thousands of farmers from several Indian states have been camped on the …
AMSTERDAM 22 December 2020 -The European Union geared up to launch mass vaccinations against COVID-19 just after Christmas after the shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech cleared regulatory hurdles on Monday. European Union countries including Germany, France, Austria, and Italy have said they plan to start vaccinations …
New Delhi 22 December 2020 – Farmers’ leaders sought to step up pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal three agricultural reform laws on Monday by starting a 24-hour relay hunger strike. Modi’s government is urging the farmers to engage in further talks to end a deadlock that has …
CHANDIGARH – International animal welfare organisation, World Animal Protection has today submitted a detailed report to the government of Delhi, comprising the learnings and findings from its ‘Better Dairy’ campaign. The report titled: The White Truth – Better Dairy Campaign Report has been submitted to …