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Community Led Total Sanitation

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an unsubsidized approach to rural sanitation that facilitates communities to recognize the problem of open defecation and take collective action to clean...

December 21, 2014

UN asks Israel to compensate Lebanon $856.4 million over oil spill damage

United Nation’s General Assembly has passed a resolution asking Israel to pay Lebanon more than $850 million in damages for an oil spill caused by an Israeli air...

December 21, 2014

Middle Income Trap

It is being argued that some economies, particularly amongst the hitherto fast growing ones in Asia, may stop growing beyond a point. This point may be such that...

December 21, 2014

NGT forms panel to dispose sand on Yamuna riverbed

National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee to weigh and dispose around 70,000 cubic metre of sand and clay lying on the riverbed of Yamuna at Wazirabad...

December 21, 2014

Food processing industry in India

Indian food processing industry stands at $135 billion and is estimated to grow with a CAGR of 10 per cent to reach $200 billion by 2015. Segments The...

December 21, 2014

Food Processing

Food processing encompasses all the steps that food goes through from the time it is harvested to the time it arrives on consumer’s plate.  According to Food and...

December 21, 2014

Essential Commodities

Under the Essential Commodities Act 1955, the State Governments/UT Administrations have issued various control orders to regulate various aspects of trading in essential commodities such as foodgrains, edible...

December 21, 2014

Green Box Subsidies

In WTO terminology, subsidies in general are identified by “boxes” which are given the colors of traffic lights: green (permitted), amber (slow down — i.e. be reduced), red...

December 21, 2014

E-technology in the aid of farmers

In the context of agriculture, the potential of information technology (IT) can be studied under broadly two outcomes viz. direct contribution to farm productivity and indirect contribution. The...

December 21, 2014

E-technology in the aid of farmers

In the context of agriculture, the potential of information technology (IT) can be studied under broadly two outcomes viz. direct contribution to farm productivity and indirect contribution. The...

December 21, 2014

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