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Packaged drinking water is often considered to be the safest option to beat the thirst in case of unavailability of safe drinking water. Read More

India needs a greater focus on farmers with small land holdings and formulate a strategy to increase their income in order to realise the goal of a Viksit Bharat, or a developed nation by 2047, said PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, while delivering the 19th CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture. Read More

In a rather stern warning to the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—President-elect Donald Trump has threatened 100% tariffs on their exports to the United States if they pursue efforts to replace the U.S. dollar in global trade. Read More

Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) is implementing a Centrally Sponsored- “Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme” for providing financial, technical and business support for upgradation of micro food processing enterprises in the country. The scheme is operational for a period of five years from 2020-21 to 2025-26 with an outlay of Rs. 10,000 Crore.  The scheme aims to enhance the competitiveness of existing individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized segment of the food processing industry and promote formalization of the sector.  Read More

Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday expressed confidence in the resilience of India-US relations as Donald Trump gears up for another term in the White House. Read More

The Allahabad High Court has clarified that an offence under the Food Safety & Standards Act is committed on the date on which the Food Analyst’s report is received, not when the sample is collected. Read More

The FSSAI has notified compositional standards of mozzarella cheese wherein fat in dry matter shall be 18% (minimum) and 20% (minimum), respectively, for low moisture and high moisture mozzarella cheese. Further, “suitable qualifiers linked to fat in dry matter specified shall be used in conjunction with the designation ‘Mozzarella Cheese’ and the designation of mozzarella cheese with high moisture content shall also be accompanied by the qualifying term ‘High moisture’,” reads the notification. According to the notified standards mozzarella cheese can be designated as partially skimmed, medium fat, full fat and high fat. Equal to or above 18% to 30% fat in dry matter content mozzarella cheese shall be designated as partially skimmed and medium fat should have fat in dry matter equal to or above 30% and less than 45%. Similarly above & equal to 45% but less than 60% fat in dry content shall be designated as full fat while fat in dry matter equal to or above 60% but less than 85% shall be designated as high fat mozzarella cheese.  According to FSSAI, these regulations shall come into effect from May 1, 2025.

The government will not include any retrospective steps in Jan Vishwas 2.0 that can hurt industry, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal assured industry Thursday. At an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), he also said that he is inclined to abort the idea of a national single window as it seems that the industry “has no interest” in it and the initiative of a national land bank. Read More

As the US imposes higher tariffs and trade barriers on imports from China, surpluses with the latter could increasingly be diverted to other countries, including India, which already imports heavily from China, ratings agency Crisil said. Stating that the US and China are at the cusp of yet another trade war, it warned that import tariffs and barriers on these goods could hurt India the most. It assumes significance as both India’s imports from and exports to the US doubled over the past decade while in the case of China, imports doubled but exports to the country stagnated. Total merchandise trade with the US touched $120 billion in 2023-24. Trade with China neared at record $118 billion.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal highlighted India’s growing appeal as a global hub for emerging technologies, attributing this success to the transformative initiatives undertaken in recent years. Read More