Month: March 2020

India housing market to keep struggling this year: Reuters poll

BENGALURU – India’s housing market is likely to struggle throughout 2020 as sluggish demand and a weak economic outlook overpower recent government measures efforts to boost activity, a Reuters poll of market experts found. House prices rose 5.7% on average in 2018, the weakest since comparable records began […]

World pharma supplier India restricts export of some ingredients, drugs

BENGALURU/NEW DELHI – India, the world’s main supplier of generic drugs, on Tuesday restricted the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and drugs made from them, including paracetamol, as concern mounted the coronavirus outbreak could turn into a pandemic. Indian pharma companies get almost 70% of the active pharmaceutical […]

Celebration of Janaushadhi Week from 1st to 7th March

open view news desk Janaushadhi week is being celebrated across the country from 1st March to 7th March 2020. On this occasion various activities like health checkup Camp, Jan Aushadhi Paricharcha, Jan Aushadhi ka sath are being undertaken. During the week, blood pressure check-up, sugar level checkup, free doctor consultation […]

Discovery of Ink to Curb Fake Printing of Passports and Counterfeiting of Currency Notes

open view news desk CSIR-National Physical Laboratory has developed a bi-luminescent security ink which glows in red and green colours when illuminated by two different excitation sources at 254 nano meters (nm) and 365 nm, respectively. The ink was prepared in a batch of 1kg and given to […]

States Successful in Achieving Control on Population Growth

open view news desk The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in India has declined from 3.2 in 1999 to 2.9 in 2005 and further declined to 2.2 in the year of 2017. There are thirteen States out of the 22 bigger States which have achieved the replacement level of […]

Biomethanation of rice straw to solve stubble burning

open view news desk The following steps are being taken to solve the problem of stubble burning, namely:- 1. In an all India coordinated project, efforts are on to produce bio-gas for kitchen use and quality manure for fields using bio-methanation of rice straw by anaerobic digestion method. […]

PM reviews preparedness on Coronavirus

open view news desk Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has reviewed  the preparedness on the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. “Had an extensive review regarding preparedness on the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. Different ministries & states are working together, from screening people arriving in India to providing prompt medical attention. There […]

NIA achieves a Conviction Rate of over 90% in the cases entrusted to it: Shri G. Kishan Reddy

open view news desk Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri G. Kishan Reddy, in a written reply to a question regarding performance of National Investigation Agency (NIA), in Lok Sabha today, said that the NIA was created in pursuance to enactment of NIA Act, 2008 with […]

Australia’s newswire axed amid pressure from digital giants

m the courts to parliament and everywhere in between,” said Alexandra Wake a journalism expert at RMIT University. People took to social media to express their concern while there were tributes in parliament. “They have a wonderful history in this place and when you have such an important […]

US votes in crucial primaries after ex-rivals back Biden

Americans vote Tuesday in primaries that play a major role in who will challenge Donald Trump for the presidency, a day after key endorsements dramatically boosted Joe Biden’s hopes against surging leftist Bernie Sanders. The backing of Biden by three of his ex-rivals marked an unprecedented turn in […]

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