The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
POLICY ALLOWS 100% FDI, BUT NEW PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN CITING HEALTH CONCERNS Partha Ghosh NEW DELHI JAPAN Tobacco International's recent move to raise stake in its Indian subsidiary, JTI India, has lit up an old debate related to foreign direct investment in the tobacco or cigarette manufacturing business. …
We need to boost agricultural productivity on the size and scale that we have achieved in industry and services THE fundamental malaise behind the current global food crisis is that, the world over, the yield of agricultural crops has been nearly flat for over a decade. (See the accompanying table.) …
SILCHAR, July 17: Kagaj Kal Mazdoor Union and Kagaj Kal Thikadar Sramik Union under the banner of CITU today brought out rally from the union office and after moving through the mill premises assembled before the administrative head quarters and raised slogans in support of their various demands and decried …
Enough body of evidence exists linking tobacco use with life-threatening diseases and disabilities- Bobby Ramakant Despite of the India's legally-binding Cigarette and Other tobacco products Act (2003) and repeated appeals of India's Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss to bollywood film-stars to refrain from on-screen smoking, there seems …
The state government has simplified the procedure of granting permission for cutting trees to get timber wood in villages adjoining government forests. Now tehsildars have been authorised to give permission to the villagers. The maximum limit of cutting of up to two cubic meters in a year has also been …
India and other countries in the world need to scale up the cost-effective, proven and WHO recommended strategies to reduce the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use. The World Health Statistics Report (2008) of WHO released 10 days before this year's World No Tobacco Day (31 May) ups the …
On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, the Northeast Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (NESPYM) today urged the State Government to take effective steps towards banning cigarette or any other tobacco product to any person under 18 years of age and in an area within 100 metres …
Each family gets 1 ha land; Rs 87 a day as wages for 7 years Septuagenarian Kripasadhan Chakma, a landless tribal living in remote Tabidapara of Tripura's south district, is not a worried man today as he is now earning a living from his own rubber garden with the Tripura …
Septuagenarian Kripasadhan Chakma, a landless tribal living in remote Tabidapara of Tripura's South district is not a worried man today as he is now earning a living from his own rubber garden with the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council coming to his aid. Tabidapara is a picturesque tribal hamlet …
A famine like situation has gripped Mizoram with over half a million people affected following the flowering of bamboo and subsequent increase in rodent population. "Even though the State is reeling under the grip of famine, there is no starvation death,' said R. Lalthangliana, the Forest and Environment Minister. This …
Union Minister of Tribal Welfare Shri P.R. Kyndiah will be launching 'Vindhya Herbals' on May 18, 2008 at 7 pm. at Phulwari Pragati Maidan New Delhi. The function will be jointly organised by TRIFED and Madhya Pradesh State Minor Forest Federation. Kunwar Vijay Shah Chairman of M.P., MFP will be …
An internation al workshop is being organised in the city to help in establishing a network for facilitating the collection, processing and dissemination of statistics pertaining of tropical timber and other forestry parameters. India is a signatory to International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA). The workshop will also take up issues …
The Cabinet meeting presided over by CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan 15th Nov 2007, for approval amendments to Industry Augmentation Policy-2004 and some of the provisions of its action plan and related policies of other departments discussed. Approval of the amendments aims at making the policy more effective, but neither the …
North Khayerbari (Alipurduar): A group of farmers from a fringe village here has been patrolling the forests for free in their spare time to keep away timber smugglers. To protect the group from confrontation with the smugglers, the forest department today provided the 24 men with uniforms complete with a …
A study conducted in 45 villages in the central Himalayas assesses the current status of van panchayats, an old institution of decentralised forest governance. It finds that locals are indifferent to the administrative jurisdiction of the forest in the course of their resource extraction activities. There is no quantitative evidence …
Forest Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has said that the trade in minor forest produced should be promoted and its profits must reach the villagers directly. Kunwar Vijay Shah reviewed the activities of Rajya Laghu Vanopaj Sangh after assuming the charge of its chairman today. He also underlined the need of …
