So farmers and agriculture don a grayish, sooty shade after hogging news mostly as victims and the ignored. Farmers, especially in the Punjab to UP belt burn paddy stubble to clear the field in order to prepare it for sowing wheat. The smoke from these burning fields has reportedly added ...
Read More »Food Processing – Customizing for Indian Conditions
There has been a great thrust on food processing in the past few years. Food processing, by virtue of its contribution to the food value chain, plays a critical role in the food ecosystem and can directly affect the habits and health of its source and target segments. The Ministry ...
Read More »Assessing China’s “global” ambitions: BRICS and the G20
Today, China’s unprecedented “participation” in BRICS (comprising members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the G20 has forced foreign policy experts to “assess” China’s growing ambitions. Some define Beijing’s active participation as “hegemonic” while some experts go to an extent to define it as “active role-player in global ...
Read More »Women’s inclusion in Universal Health Care Coverage: A “sustainable” step
Introduction Policy experts define universal health care system as the surety of availability of quality in health care services to every individual irrespective of his/her class, creed, religion or ethnicity. Policy experts further classify the universal health care coverage into three fundamental pillars: Equality treatment for all: Every individual irrespective ...
Read More »Assessing India’s Soft Power Diplomacy: A “Real” Progress?
For decades, political scientists, foreign policy experts have argued on growing India’s “softer approach” in diplomacy on the international arena, giving it credit for India’s rising economy, its military might and evolution in demography. With New Delhi’s increasing reliance on the “soft power” particularly the nation’s vivid culture and values, ...
Read More »Impact of Modi’s Surgical Strike on Black Money – Detailed Analysis
Analysis : The Indian Iris Team- Narayan Singh Rao, Gaurav Sinha, Akash Ranjan On the stroke of mid-night of November 8, 2016, 86.4% of Indian currency went out of circulation with a 72 hour exemption window for specific services. There were 1,650 crore Rs.500 and 670 crore Rs.1,000 notes which ...
Read More »Finally, a short-duration red gram
The new arhar (red gram or pigeon pea) variety released by Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) – Pusa Arhar 16 – brings to fruition a long awaited desire of early maturity variety of the crop. Pusa Arhar 16 comes to maturity in 120 days, possibly due to synchronous flowering, and ...
Read More »Arnab, Modi, Kejriwal, and Young Generation – What’s the Connection?
Why Arnab Goswami has highest TRP among English news channel anchors, why AAP is set to become ‘one click’ wonder child, and why Modi won in 2014 and will win in 2019? When I think about these presumably unconnected points, I find a pattern there. Let us first talk about ...
Read More »India Post Brexit and Rexit
India and the Brexit With financial and political ripple continues to shake the markets, Brexit continues to instigate debate among financial pundits on the future of global markets, especially the world’s emerging ones. Will the Brexit ripple hit emerging markets such as India’s? What impacts will it leave behind? Once ...
Read More »PM launched Schemes for Tribal Development on his Birthday
On occasion of Birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, He today unveiled various schemes worth nearly Rs. 3,800 crores at Limkheda in Dahod district of Gujarat which will benefit the tribal farmers living in the area. Prime Minister Modi handed over land ownership documents to tribal people and inaugurated various ...
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