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Fortified foodgrains including rice, pulses, lentils and peas are not procured through Cooperative Societies/Federations viz. National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Ltd (NCCF). However, paddy and raw pulses are procured through them.Government of India launched a centrally sponsored scheme for fortification of rice with Iron, Folic acid and Vitamin B12.The objective of this scheme is to address the prevalence of micronutrient deficiency in vulnerable section of society by distributing fortified rice under various welfare schemes i.e. Public Distribution System, ICDS, PM-POSHAN, PMGKAY etc.Government of India has approved continuation of the universal

President Donald Trump's contentious relationship with news organizations has led to a host of disputes and legal battles, the latest a lawsuit accusing the BBC of defamation and deceptive and unfair trade practices. The president is seeking $10 billion in damages from the British broadcaster.The lawsuit filed Monday accuses the BBC of "splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump's speech on January 6, 2021" in order to "intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said." It calls the BBC's "false" depiction of Trump "a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence" the 2024 US presidential election.The BBC

Scientists are now analysing the entire data in depth to create a complete map of the temperature around the planet and better understand the composition of its atmosphere.In a major discovery, scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence so far that a rocky planet outside our solar system has an atmosphere. According to NASA, the finding is important because such small, extremely hot planets were earlier believed to be unable to hold on to thick layers of gas.This planet, TOI-561 b, belongs to an extremely rare category called ultra-short-period exoplanets. It is approximately 1.4 times

At the media drive of Maruti Suzuki's first electric vehicle for India, the e-VITARA, I got a chance to speak with Partho Banerjee, Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, Maruti Suzuki. In this candid conversation, Banerjee shared insights on the company's EV strategy, infrastructure plans, and what makes the e-VITARA a game-changer. There's a saying that if you have to do something good, you don't have to do it fast or first-you have to do it right.Siddhartha: Maruti-Suzuki's commitment is to go electric, we have been seeing the e-VITARA for a while, however the company started with building the infrastructure

A recent study found that popular glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, have little to no impact on an individual's risk of obesity-related cancer. The study was published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2022, about 2.5 billion adults were overweight, of which 890 million were living with obesity. Previous studies have shown how obesity increases an individual's risk of different types of cancers. However, the new study reveals that GLP-1 medications don't lower an individual's cancer risk. Obesity increases the risk of different types of cancers,