India imported 1.2 million tonnes of vegetable oils in January 2024, 28 per cent lower than it shipped in the same month last year at about 1.7 million tonnes, data compiled by The Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) showed on Monday.
In a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his last address in the Lower House in the current NDA tenure at the closing of the Budget Session of Parliament, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday called it his 'valedictory speech' in the 17th Lok Sabha.
Bariatric surgery is more beneficial than blood pressure medication in lowering hypertension rates, or high blood pressure, in persons who are obese and have uncontrolled high blood pressure, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said that the overall productivity of the 17th Lok Sabha has been around 97 per cent, the highest among the tenures of the last five Houses. The lower House of Parliament also lost a total of 387 hours to disruptions
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday issued a three-line whip to all its MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, asking them to be present in the Parliament on Saturday as some important legislative business is to be discussed in both Houses.
According to data from S&P Global Commodities at Sea, South Africa's thermal coal exports fluctuated between 59 to 60 million metric tons over the past year, slightly lower than pre-pandemic levels.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has moved an adjournment motion in Lok Sabha demanding a discussion on the Assam government's spending on air travel for state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Lower House on Friday.
Congress MP Manish Tewari has moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the border situation with China in the Lower House on Friday.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the two disasters including Cyclone Michaung that hit Tamil Nadu last December in the Lower House on Thursday.
Congress MP Manish Tewari has moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the legal guarantee of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the farmers in the Lower House on Thursday.
"If demonetization was a bad policy and badly implemented, GST was a good idea but which was badly designed and shabbily implemented," Tharoor said in the Lower House.