The Coastal Security Police have arrested a Home Guard on charge of reportedly trying to smuggling about three tonnes of beedi leaves to Sri Lanka. The police said the Coastal Security Police, during their patrol near Koodankulam, stopped a mini lorry around 3 a.m. on Wednesday. When the lorry driver tried to escape, the police … Read more
Image for representation | Photo Credit: Reuters The Union government has launched National Mission on Edible Oils–Oilseeds (NMEO-OS) with an outlay of Rs 10,103.38 crore to boost the domestic oilseed production to 70 million tonnes by 2030-31 from the current 39 million tonnes, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya … Read more
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport handled a total of 1.8 lakh metric tonnes of cargo in 2024. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad handled a total of 1.8 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of cargo in 2024, marking a 22% increase over the previous year. This surge was driven … Read more
“Reducing this level of wastage is therefore something that we can all play our part in tackling. For instance, work has shown that around 30% of the medicines returned to community pharmacies have not even been opened. This means that patients are ordering and receiving medication that they don’t need and won’t use.” Source link
Production of rice, wheat, maize, ragi, jawar, bajra and other millets and pulses such as greengram, blackgram, horsegram, arhar, bengal gram, field pea and lentil were estimated to arrive at the production figure. | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout Despite being prone to severe weather conditions, Odisha has produced 13.606 million tonnes of food-grains in 2022-23 … Read more
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd. (Tangedco) received 192.67 lakh tonnes of domestic coal during 2022-23, the highest quantum in the last 10 years, according to the Tamil Nadu Energy Department’s policy note for 2023-24. The note was recently tabled in the Assembly by Electricity Minister V. Senthilbalaji. The annual requirement of coal for … Read more