The Banas Dairy project in Varanasi aims to empower thousands of farmers and milk producers of Purvanchal region. Besides milk, this plant will produce ice-creams, curd, butter-milk, paneer and cookies.
A massive explosion at the Indian Oil Corporation’s Haldia refinery in West Bengal on December 21 has killed at least three workers and injured another 44 persons, of whom 16 are learnt to be critical. As per the eyewitnesses, the death toll is expected to be much higher. Those dead and injured include migrant labourers who work on contract basis at the refinery.
Once a debt-ridden family of daily wage migrant labourers, Suresh Prajapati’s household is now reaping profits by cultivating vegetables in the water -scarce Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh by using modern techniques. Details here.
Initial estimates show that the severity of the infection caused by the COVID19’s Omicron variant is less than the Delta strain. But researchers warn that it is too early to rely on the initial data available on the severity of the disease. Details here.
Mustard cultivation is low maintenance and farmer-friendly as it requires less seeds, less water and less fertilisers to grow, and yet brings a good price. It also facilitates supplementary sources of income as beekeeping in the mustard fields works very well.
Eleven Bills were passed by both the Houses of Parliament in the Winter Session. Today, the Parliament was adjourned sine die. Lok Sabha registered 82 per cent productivity while for the Rajya Sabha it was 47 per cent. A session wrap.
In a small village in Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, girls who were discouraged from even dreaming about higher education or going out into the world, are now winning medals and trophies, as a sports teacher has trained them to shine in the sporting arena.
India has reported 214 cases of COVID19’s Omicron variant so far. Delhi and Maharashtra are contributing more than half of the country’s Omicron cases. According to the Union Health Ministry, the new variant is at least three times more transmissible than the Delta strain.
Bagru is a traditional printing and dyeing technique practised by the ‘chippa’ community in a remote town of Rajasthan. Suraj Narayan Titanwala, a national award winning Bagru craftsperson, has set up a Bagru Museum to preserve and promote the art form of his ancestors.
With rising temperatures due to global warming increasing the incidence of crop failure and damage, scientists from the Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research are researching on developing heat resistant varieties of wheat. Details here.