Agri dept cancels 54 fertiliser licences, suspends 786 in crackdown on urea diversion | Pune News

Pune: The state agriculture department cancelled 54 and suspended 786 licences of fertiliser dealers and retailers over the past five weeks for alleged diversion, hoarding and possible industrial misuse of subsidised urea ahead of the kharif sowing season.Sunil Borkar, director of agriculture (quality control and inputs), told TOI, “During investigation, our officials physically verified high-volume…

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In 2016, stadium crews digging in Oregon found giant bones that revealed an Ice Age world beneath the field |

Construction at Oregon State University in 2016 unearthed fossilized mammoth remains, revealing a significant Ice Age paleontological site. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Many years before the noise of thousands of screaming spectators became a common occurrence every Saturday afternoon, there was another story waiting to be unearthed at the site of Oregon State University. In…

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‘I don’t trust Pakistan’: US official questions Islamabad’s mediation role after Iran aircraft row, seeks alternative

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday publicly questioned Pakistan’s credibility as a mediator in the ongoing US-Iran negotiations, citing reports that Iranian military aircraft had been allowed to use Pakistani airbases during the conflict.Speaking during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Graham pressed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over reports that Iranian aircraft were operating…

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