Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially altered products – like soda, snacks and processed meats – packed with additives and stripped of nutrients. Hundreds of new ingredients, previously unknown to the human body, now make up nearly 60% of the average adult’s diet and almost 70% of children’s diets in the United States. These products reduce.
Shagun For a country that is among the world’s largest food producers and thus one of the biggest consumers of fertilisers, secure access to these inputs is vital. While India is broadly self-sufficient in food grains, it is not so in fertilisers and depends heavily on imports, whether for finished products or raw materials used.
Scientists have identified a key biological system that helps brown fat burn energy by building the networks it needs to function. A protein called SLIT3 splits into two parts, with each piece guiding the growth of blood vessels and nerves inside brown fat. These structures allow the tissue to pull in nutrients and rapidly convert.
Jayanta Bhattacharya The high-voltage battleground of Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in April election comes as a reminder of the 2016 clash in the same seat that also was much hyped as allegations flew, churning the political waters of West Bengal. Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had then faced challenges from Congress candidate Deepa.
Vicky Nanjappa Union Home Minister Amit Shah delivered on his promise of a ‘Naxal Mukt Bharat’. The Home Minister announced that all members of the Naxal central and state committees have been killed, arrested or have surrendered. Talks are on with the last active CPI (Maoist) central committee member, he said, signalling the near-complete end.
Nepal has witnessed the impact of the ongoing West Asia crisis as the number of foreign tourist arrivals from Europe, the Americas, West Asia, and Africa has dropped sharply in March. The conflict has been ongoing since February 28, when the US and Israel launched a military attack on Iran. Its fallout is being felt.
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) has sanctioned more than 52.37 crore loans disbursing a total of Rs. 33.65 lakh crore since its launch in April 2015, according to an official fact-sheet. Around 70 per cent of loans went to women entrepreneurs and about 50 per cent to borrowers from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other.
Akshay Bansal Member, BJPYM, NEC In a recent hearing on the SIR exercise in West Bengal, a Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant remarked that he had read an article about the exercise across the country. “Apart from West Bengal, everywhere it happened smoothly,” quoted Kant. This was projected as the so-called final arrow by.
Shashikant Trivedi With Union Home Minister Amit Shah declaring that India has effectively achieved a Naxal-free status by meeting the government’s self-imposed deadline of March 31, a significant breakthrough has been marked for the country, which was previously seen as a prolonged conflict that earlier governments found challenging to address. When HM Shah addressed the.
Parth Kapole On Monday evening in the Lok Sabha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah firmly asserted that Naxalism has come to an end in the country. The Central Government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had set the goal of eradicating Naxalism as early as 2014. Upon assuming the office of Union Home Minister, Amit.
The India-Israel cooperation in agriculture has received a huge push with the announcement, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jerusalem last month, of setting up more Centres of Excellence as high-tech agricultural hubs and taking these further to the village level to ensure that the use of modern farm techniques percolates directly to the.
