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Friday, November 1, 2024
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Topic: Bamboo

Kidbea Signals Strong Growth in Offline Retail, Plans to Open 10+ Exclusive Brand Outlets and 200+ Multi Brand Outlets

Curating an extensive range of sustainable and eco-friendly products that blend affordability with utmost comfort, Kidbea has captured the hearts of countless families.

Bamboo can fix housing, climate crises. Even help world achieve net-zero goals

Unlike standard building materials such as concrete and steel, bamboo stores much of its carbon even when it has been turned into buildings, bridges, and furniture.

Modi govt’s gift to India’s elderly poor — bamboo walking sticks from Northeast at your door

Move aims to expand scope of govt assistance to senior citizens, as now, beneficiaries will be all those receiving old-age pensions under rural development schemes.

India can go the Khadi way to realise its bamboo potential, cut imports from China

Bamboo tourism will nurture ‘Bamboo diplomacy’, given the northeast region’s geographical proximity to ASEAN, and their sharing of common heritage.

KVIC plants 5,000 ‘special bamboo saplings’ in Rajasthan to boost tribals’ income

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission launched a project Sunday named 'Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought' to support the local bamboo-based industries in rural India.

All about bamboo cookies, ‘healthy and nutritious’ snack launched by Tripura govt

The bamboo cookies are made by adding bamboo shoot paste to wheat flour. Bamboo shoots are rich in proteins, vitamins, minerals, digestive fibres and have less fat content.

CBI to ‘soon question’ former brass of state-run paper firm in Rs 144 crore bamboo scam

Multiple former senior officials of Hindustan Paper Corporation have been booked for allegedly purchasing bamboo & pulp at high rates despite cheaper alternatives.

​Modi govt wants more bamboo trade but it must end ​control of China, Vietnam first

Modi government’s efforts to revitalise bamboo trade do not address the issue of bamboo waste and its commercial utilisation, which is the key to ​its success.

Ensuring that only farmers benefit from higher MSP will be a challenge

The idea of giving 1.5 times the cost of the produce is good, but with challenges in implementation, achieving effectiveness will require innovative approach.

Bamboo’s no longer a tree: Change in forest law sows seeds of hope among NE farmers

Northeast accounts for 66% of India’s bamboo stock; currently there is negligible export of bamboo from India due to legal hurdles.

On Camera

Bibek Debroy was an ‘Acharya’ in India’s intellectual history

In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.