However, the UP government said it has given one more month to Patanjali to meet the conditions required to get the final approval.
Fifteen Cabinet ministers and 28 Ministers of State were sworn-in by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday evening.
On Tuesday, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti kicked up a storm when she used expletives during a campaign speech in Delhi. While campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, she called the electorate to choose between Ramzadon and h********n.
In a move that could have a bearing on Indians, Britain has decided to significantly reduce work permit quotas of non-EU low-skilled migrants coming in to fill labour shortages in agriculture
The government may consider revoking the licences of the companies manufacturing softdrinks in India if the report indicates presence of pesticides beyond the permissible level
The Indian government has sent Union ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri to represent India at the event.
Here are some of the key farmer leaders who fronted the protests.
India's GDP is within the striking distance of attaining positive growth, the Reserve Bank said observing that the letter "V" in the V-shaped recovery stands for vaccine. The Indian government launched the world's biggest vaccination drive on January 16 to protect people from COVID-19. "What will 2021 look like? The shape of the recovery will be V-shaped after all and the 'V' stands for vaccine," said an article on the 'state of economy' in the RBI's January Bulletin. India has launched the biggest vaccination drive in the world, backed by its comparative advantage of having the largest vaccine manufacturing capacity in the world and a rich experience of mass inoculation drives against polio and measles.
The company is listed among the top suppliers of food and beverage products for people in Chennai
'There has been no significant increase in the number of fatalities.'
About 18 per cent of the fruit and vegetables production worth Rs 44,000 crore (Rs 440 billion) is going waste annually in the country due to lack of proper cold chain storage infrastructure, Parliament was informed on Friday.
Food processing industry players are worried that this could have an impact on their overall investment plans.
Gandhi said that he had already told the chief ministers of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh that these states should take the lead in ushering in the second Green Revolution.
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To promote the food processing sector, the government had in 2007-08 Budget announced financial assistance via a scheme for technology upgradation, establishment and modernisation of food processing industries.
Virbhadra Singh wants the private sector to invest in the food processing industry
Even as foreign investors land in Delhi to attend the first major food processing trade fair, Delhiites queue up to satisfy their tastebuds
Indians spend a higher percentage of their earnings on food consumption, compared with other countries globally, Ramachandra N Galla, chairman of Amara Raja Group, said.
The concern is that the scheme may not take off, like its precursor in the previous five-year plan.
IT and IT-enabled services will be allowed to operate with essential minimum staff only while the rest would work from home.
India and France aim to double the bilateral trade to $12 billion (around Rs 50,000 crore) from current $6 billion and have identified food processing sector as a core area of cooperation.
Despite a favourable Food Processing Policy, the industry faces problems because of lack of infrastructure facilities and highly unorganised structure of food processing units.
"The food processing industry in India is one of the largest in terms of production, consumption, export and growth prospects."
The food processing sector is going to be on the driving seat of the Indian economy and will contribute significantly in the country's GDP, food processing minister Subodh Kant Sahai said on Friday. Earlier, he was handling the same ministry as minister of state (independent charge).
The government on Monday said job opportunities in the food processing sector in the country have increased by over 35 per cent to 13.4 million in the last five years.
Three TMC leaders Amit Mitra, Bratya Basu and Rathin Ghosh were sworn-in virtually. Mitra is unwell and both Basu and Ghosh are recuperating from COVID-19.
The food processing sector in the country with its vast potential has emerged as one of the major driver of economic growth. It is encouraging to note that while the country's GDP growth rate had increase from 3.5 per cent in 2002-03 to 9 percent in 2006-07, the food processing sector has grown from 7 per cent to 13.1 per cent during the same period. India is a country of over 1.10 billion consumers, there is a large untapped domestic market of 1,000 million consumers.
Early this year, the US allowed import of Indian mangoes but only after fumigation test in a designated laboratory set up in Maharashtra.
During his address after flagging off the train via video-conferencing, Modi said his government's policies are clear and intentions transparent in reforming the agriculture sector.
The Centre may soon come out with an ordinance to amend the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act to give autonomy to commodity market regulator Forward Markets Commission. "The issue is likely to come up before the Cabinet on January 24," Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai said on the sidelines of an Assocham-organised conference on futures trading.
India and the US reviewed on Tuesday the Agriculture Knowledge Initiative, a joint effort of Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and US President George W Bush, with emphasis on the food processing sector.
Tax holidays, cheaper labour and lower land costs would enable the smaller states of Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand to emerge as preferred destinations for investment, industry body Assocham said.
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The central government has taken up a Rs 400 crore (Rs 4-billion) project for building 30 mega food parks in India along with a proper supply chain for each of them.
In her four-page resignation letter addressed to the prime minister, she said, 'In view of the decision of the government of India to go ahead with the Bill on the issue of marketing of agricultural produce without addressing and removing the apprehensions of farmers and decision of my party, Shiromani Akali Dal, not to be a part of anything that goes against the interest of farmers, I find it impossible to continue to perform my duties as a minister in the union council of ministers.'
'We expect the new government to look into the issue of penalties imposed on technology firms involved in UID related projects.'
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India declined by about 15 per cent to $12.6 billion (Rs 74,971 crore) during April-October this year, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
The only fuel that showed growth was LPG as the government dole of free cooking gas cylinders to poor households fired up consumption by 21 per cent during April 1 to 15.
The high-level panel also asked the government to work towards re-orienting subsidies in a targeted manner from the crop sector to the non-crop sector and redesign the electronic National Agriculture Market.
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