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India: Bhutan - New Prospects

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On the occasion of Golden Jubilee Year of India and Bhutan's diplomatic relations, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Bhutan Dr. Lotta Sherring met in New Delhi.  During this meeting, the two leaders talked about the joint efforts of taking forward Bharatan-Bhutan bilateral relations.  This is his first foreign visit after taking charge of the Prime Minister of Bhutan in October 2018 and on the occasion of Golden Jubilee year of establishing formal diplomatic relations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a financial assistance of Rs 4,500 crore for his 12th Five Year Plan (2018-23) after extensive negotiations with Bhutanese Prime Minister. Background Bhutan is a small independent country located in the eastern Himalayas.  Its west Sikkim state of India and Darjeeling district of Bengal separates it from Nepal. Its northern and northeastern border is Tibet and the east and Assam province of India in the south. Bhutan is a hill s...

question on quality of milk

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In May 2018, FSSAI started the survey.  Its interim report was released on November 13.  The survey conducted 6432 samples from all over the country was checked. During the survey, 13 types of adulterants were examined in milk, including vegetable oil, detergent, glucose, urea and ammonium sulphate. It was found in the survey that the amount of fat and solid knit fat (SNF) in milk is not in accordance with standard. India produces around 14.68 million liters of milk per day and consumption of per capita milk in the country is about 480 gm. How true is the quality of milk used by us? In the survey, 4 of quality, adulterant 12 and 4 parameters for contaminated substances were tested and 93 antibiotics residues, 18 pesticides residues, Aflatoxin M1 and ammonium sulphate were tested. According to the survey, less than 10 percent of the milk samples have found harmful substances which make the consumption of milk unsafe. In all these cases, poor quality of milk, irresp...

debt forgiveness and economy

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At this time the debate in the country is fast.  The policy commission has not told it to the farmers, including the economy. The Policy Commission has doubled the income of the farmers in the Strategy for New India @ 75 and the development of the infrastructure. Background In fact, for the first time in 1990 VP Singh's government waived the loan of Rs 10 thousand crores of farmers all over the country.  After that, the NDA Government announced a loan of about 71 thousand crores in the budget of 2008-09. In terms of states, seven states have declared debt relief of about 1.82 lakh 802 crore so far since 2014. Andhra Pradesh has 24 thousand crores, Telangana has 17 thousand crores, Tamil Nadu has 6 thousand crores in 2016 and Maharashtra has Rs 34 thousand crores in the year 2017, Uttar Pradesh has declared Rs. 36 thousand crores and Punjab has declared Rs. 1 thousand crores as debt waiver. . If this is added to the recent three states i.e. potential 35 thousand to ...