खाद्य एवं कृषि संगठन (एफएओ) ने कृषि तंत्र और सतत खाद्य प्रणालियों को बढ़ावा देने के लिए सिक्कम को ‘‘सर्वश्रेष्ठ नीतियों का ऑस्कर’’ पुरस्कार दिया है। सिक्कम भारत का पहला ऐसा राज्य है जहां ‘‘पूर्णत: यानि 100 प्रतिशत जैविक कृषि’’ की जाती है। एक बयान के मुताबिक पूर्वोत्तर के इस राज्य ने 25 देशों की 51 नामित नीतियों को पीछे छोड़ते हुए पुरस्कार जीता। ब्राजील, डेनमार्क और क्विटो (इक्वाडोर) ने रजत पुरस्कार जीते।
Read Moreदिल्ली-एनसीआर में वायु प्रदूषण से निपटने के लिए एक आपातकालीन योजना सोमवार को लागू की गई जिसमें मशीनों से सड़कों की सफाई और इस क्षेत्र के भीड़भाड़ वाले इलाकों में वाहनों के सुचारू आवागमन के लिए यातायात पुलिस की तैनाती जैसे उपाय शामिल होंगे। उच्चतम न्यायालय से अधिकार प्राप्त पर्यावरण प्रदूषण (रोकथाम एवं नियंत्रण) प्राधिकरण की एक सदस्य अनुमिता रायचौधरी ने कहा कि ‘ग्रेडेड रेस्पांस एक्शन प्लान’ (जीआरएपी) के तहत जनरेटरों के इस्तेमाल पर पाबंदी लगाई गई है लेकिन इन पर एनसीआर में पाबंदी नहीं होगी क्योंकि क्षेत्र में बिजली…
Read Moreकच्चे तेल के अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में कीमतों के उछाल के बीच प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने तेल उत्पादकों और उपभोक्ता देशों के बीच भागीदारी के संबंध पर जोर दिया है ताकि वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था को मजबूत बनाने में मदद मिल सके। मोदी ने तेल उत्पादक देशों से भी अपील की है कि वे अपने निवेश योग्य अधिशेष को विकासशील देशों के तेल क्षेत्र में वाणिज्यिक लाभ के लिए लगायें। प्रधानमंत्री कार्यालय से जारी एक वक्तव्य में यह जानकारी दी गई है। मोदी ने सोमवार को राजधानी में तेल एवं गैस क्षेत्र की…
Read MoreAn inquest into the supposed suicide of renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in South Africa in 2011 is set to be reopened, his former employer reported Monday. English-born Roebuck, 55, was covering the Test series between South Africa and Australia when he plunged to his death from the Southern Sun Hotel in Cape Town. South African police said he leapt out of a sixth floor window after two officers arrived to arrest him over a claim of sexual assault by a Zimbabwean man.But his family have never accepted the account…
Read MorePrime Minister Narendra Modi Monday warned oil producers like Saudi Arabia that high crude prices are hurting the global economy and sought a review of payment terms to provide a temporary relief to the local currency.India, the world’s third-biggest oil consumer, has been over the past two months battered by high crude oil prices that have sent retail petrol, diesel and LPG rates to record high, posed inflationary risks and together with a sliding rupee threatened to upset its current account deficit. Also, unrelenting fuel price rise since mid-August has…
Read MoreHe came, he performed and left crooning and swaying fans asking for more; Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams wound up his five-city India tour with a concert in the Delhi-NCR region Sunday night.Beginning his nearly two-hour gig at the Leisure Valley Park here with the 2017 hit Ultimate Love’, which seamlessly segued into the one-two punch of Can’t Stop This Thing We Started’, he went on to belt 24 more numbers from his rich repertoire of songs before going solo on being persisted by the 15,000-strong crowd. Taking the stage…
Read MorePresident Donald Trump has backed off from his claim that climate change is a “hoax”, but accused climate scientists of having a “very big political agenda”. The comments by Trump, who in June last year pulled the US out of the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, was made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. It come less than a week after climate scientists issued a final call to halt rising temperatures. Last week’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the leading international body evaluating…
Read MoreUnion minister M J Akbar Monday filed a private criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani who recently levelled charges of sexual misconduct against him as the #MeToo campaign raged in India.The Minister of State for External Affairs has accused Ramani of “wilfully, deliberately, intentionally and maliciously” defaming him and has sought her prosecution under the penal provision on defamation.”The complainant (Akbar) also had a long career in journalism, he launched India’s first weekly political news magazine…,” the complaint said and listed out defamatory imputations made by Ramani on social…
Read MoreCongress leader Shashi Tharoor has kicked up a row with remarks that no “good” Hindu would favour a Ram temple in Ayodhya by demolishing somebody else’s place of worship, drawing stinging criticism from the BJP which dubbed his party and its chief Rahul Gandhi “anti- Hindu”.Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, made the comments at an event in Chennai on Sunday.”As a Hindu, obviously, I am conscious that a vast majority of my fellow Hindus believe that that was the specific birthplace of Ram.”For this reason, most good Hindus would want…
Read MoreThe RBI will not relax the October 15 deadline for global financial technology (fintech) companies to comply with its data localisation norms in the public interest, according to sources.The central bank in April gave six months time to global payment companies to store transaction data of Indian customers within India. The RBI’s data localisation norms will kick in from Monday.However, the US wants to prohibit data localisation to ensure free flow of information across borders. “We want to have prohibitions on data localisation to ensure free flow of information, free flow…
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