No green clearance needed for additional ethanol output: Govt

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced this. The environment ministry said with the incentives, sugar mills are expected to undertake production of ethanol from B-heavy molasses and other by-produces or products. As of June 2019, the mills owed nearly Rs 20,000 crore to farmers across the country. With a smooth obstacle-free production of additional ethanol, … Read more

Sri Lanka: TNA announces support for Sajith Premadasa

Issuing a statement,  TNA leader R. Sampanthan said comparing the record of the previous government of Mahinda Rajapaksa with the current governance, and examining the manifestos of the two candidates, the correct course of action would be to support Premadasa. It said the record of other main candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa and others in governance with them has … Read more

37 killed in Burkina Faso’s deadliest attack in five years

The impoverished and politically fragile Sahel country has been struggling to quell a rising jihadist revolt that has claimed hundreds of lives since early 2015. On Wednesday morning “unidentified armed individuals” ambushed five buses carrying local employees, contractors and suppliers of the Samafo mining company, said Saidou Sanou, the governor of the country’s Est Region. … Read more