Attempts by the consumer affairs ministry to prohibit a prescribed list of ‘specified dark patterns’ can be counterproductive. Product designers can exploit regulatory grey areas.
Central pool stocks of wheat are only slightly above the buffer norms and at least 25 million tonnes must be procured for the public distribution system and welfare schemes.
Price Stabilisation Fund Management Committee recommends increase in buffer stock of pulses due to continued inflation in market prices & increasing y-o-y production.
Consumer affairs ministry to set up a team to monitor any such violation, which could invite a maximum jail term of three years or a fine of Rs 2,000 or both.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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