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Agro-forestry is solution to avoiding food crisis: Sadhguru
As part of Rally for Rivers, an initiative to revive depleting rivers across the country, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha Foundation, on Saturday, launched the ‘Cauvery Calling’ initiative. BENGALURU: If every person contributed Rs 42, it will cover the cost of saplings for nearly five million farmers, in an initiative to introduce agro-forestry along the…
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Flexitarian diets key to feeding people in a warming world
If the world wants to limit climate change, water scarcity and pollution, then we all need to embrace “flexitarian” diets, say scientists. This means eating mainly plant-based foods, and is one of three key steps towards a sustainable future for all in 2050, they say. Food waste will need to be halved and farming practices…
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Lack of sufficient funds biggest roadblock for women entrepreneurs
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free”! Ms. Priyankas Singh, Generation Next Entrepreneur The survey also revealed that these women wanted to start their own venture to either gain financial independence (64 per cent), or an identity of their own (54 per cent). While most home-makers…
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Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen notes on Ayushman Bharat Yojana
Money could have been better spent on medical infrastructure, Sen says Economist Amartya Sen on Friday criticised the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana, saying it does not fulfil the requirements of primary healthcare and that the money could have been used better by improving medical infrastructure. “If we look at the healthcare system, we will see…
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Defining Biosimilars in Oncology: Priyanka Singh Pharma Entrepreneur
“We are totally committed to improving the safety and wellbeing of all people who work with us, or come into contact with our operations and products”! WHAT IS Biosimilars: Unlike generic chemical medicines where the active ingredients are identical, biosimilars – by definition – are not likely to be identical to the originator biologic. They…