agricultural institutions

NAARM gets ICAR Sardar Patel Award

Dhanuka group signs MoU with Karnal’s Horticultural University to promote drone use

Focus on bio-fuel crops, PM asks ICRISAT, ICAR, agri varsities

ICAR urges state universities to join its all-India entrance test

Also, suggest a 10% increase in seats/year for a few years; urges relaxing mandatory hostel staying norms.

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Cotton quandary: farmers sell crop below MSP levels

Cotton Corporation to open 83 procurement centres in Telangana from October 13

Nabard lists agrarian crisis factors in TN

Cabinet clears scheme for providing irrigation to all villages

Will Akasa Air’s contra bet on Boeing 737 Max instead of Airbus pay off?

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa airline has gone against the tide, placing its bets on Boeing aircrafts; it now needs to carve out a niche for itself

Breastfeeding, a responsibility, not choice

Rate of initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth has declined in 5 years

Blockchain: Piloting the future of aviation

Enables effective solutions that positively impact industry players and end consumers

Q1 FY23: OMCs bleed due to marketing losses

Prices of motor fuels were kept at levels equivalent to $75-80 per barrel of crude

Bharti Airtel Q1: Inline results and stable operating metrics

Results reflect consistent progress made in recent quarters

IRB beats estimates in Q1FY23, but the stock is expensive

The company is trading at a one year forward P/E of 26.6 times against its historical average (5 year average) of 11.8 times

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up