Bangladesh okays 3,950 MT Hilsa export ahead of Durga Puja, first shipment today
In what holds good news for the people of West Bengal ahead of the Durga Puja festivities, the Bangladesh government has given the go-ahead to the export of nearly 3,950 million tonnes (MT) of the Hilsa fish to India before October 30. The neighbouring country had banned the export of Hilsa, which holds a special […]
How a painter-turned-farmer grew the world’s costliest mango in Tripura – and succeeded
Meet 42-year-old Pragyan Chakma. A painter-turned-horticulture enthusiast and entrepreneur, Pragyan has successfully grown the world’s costliest mango, the Miyazaki mango, in Tripura. His success with the crop for the second consecutive year has now caught the authorities’ attention. And, understandably so. Miyazaki mangoes, characterised by the flaming red colour they take on when ripe, are […]
Farm fire kills 18,000 cows in Texas: Are such incidents common in the US?
Around 18,000 cows were killed and one female employee was critically injured after a fire erupted inside a milking parlour at a dairy farm in Dimmitt, Texas, on April 10. In a statement, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, said, “While devastating, I’m grateful that there were no further injuries to agricultural workers or any loss […]
Higher input costs, no subsidies: Wheat farmers in Pak Punjab feel the pinch
Tehseen Athar sold gandum (wheat) grown on 8 acres of his 12-acre holding at Pakistani rupees (PKR) 5,500 per quintal last April. This January, the cereal was wholesaling in Chowk Azam mandi, not far from his village of Chak 152 in Layyah district in Pakistan’s Punjab province, at PKR 14,000 per quintal. “I never imagined […]
Anand Mahindra shares video of fruit vendor using RBI’s digital currency
Industrialist Anand Mahindra is quite regular on Twitter where he shares interesting videos and insights. The Mahindra Group Chairman shared a video of a fruit vendor using the Reverse Bank of India (RBI)’s digital currency. Mahindra said he had learnt about the RBI digital currency, the e-rupee, at the central bank’s board meeting. “At the […]
Arrested fruit seller in Kerala was tasked by PFI to collect info on RSS, BJP events: NIA
DAYS AFTER a 40-year-man was arrested in Kerala for allegedly working for the Popular Front of India (PFI), it has emerged during investigations that he was a fruit seller who had been asked by the banned outfit to collect information on RSS and BJP events in Kollam district, including details of guests who were invited […]
Farmers won’t protest at Amit Shah’s Haryana rally: BKU’s Gurnam Singh Chaduni
The Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), led by Gurnam Singh Chaduni, has decided not to protest during Home Minister Amit Shah’s Sunday rally at Gohana in Haryana, three days after calling on farmers to raise slogans against the BJP governments in the state and at the Centre for a higher sugarcane price. After a meeting in […]
Watch: Shirtless man gets into physical altercation with passenger aboard Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight
Amid increasing incidents of unruly passengers getting into heated arguments with cabin crew members or into physical altercations with fellow passengers, numerous videos in the recent past have gone viral showing the airline industry in poor light. A video that is now going viral on Twitter shows a shirtless passenger engaging in a physical altercation […]
4-day Indian Textile Trade Fair in Dhaka from today
The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) will organise a four-day Indian Textile Trade Fair in Bangladesh from Wednesday, for which over 60 exhibitors and SGCCI office-bearers left for Dhaka on Tuesday. According to SGCCI president Himanshu Bodawala, the industry is expecting big business from the exhibition, to be held at the International […]
Hidden in stubble fire numbers, a story of farmers’ love for long duration paddy
The push by farmers for higher yield by sowing longer duration varieties of paddy is in turn pushing the stubble burning incidents in Punjab, a problem that caught the attention of among others the National Human Rights Commission and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Farmers in Punjab had sown paddy, excluding Basmati, in 64 lakh […]