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Authorities in Meghalaya have banned the transport, storage and sale of ‘illegally imported’ fish from Bangladesh in at least two districts following reports of unregulated consignments entering the state through porous border routes, officials said on Monday. East Khasi Hills and South West Khasi Hills districts imposed the ban due to public health and biosecurity […]
A Colorado man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for laundering more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds during the peak of the pandemic, federal officials announced last week. William Chadwick, a 63-year-old man from Akron, laundered $228,284.09 in funds stolen from COVID-19 relief programs between May 2020 and August 2022, according to the […]
The Indian government consistently tries to put an end to JHUM cultivation in the northeast with a “fixed” cultivation by allocating funds, plants and providing support for the transformation. However, the transformation will be a long -term process, says Sukamal Deb, Lead, Anant Center for Documentation and Design of Crafts (ACDC), Anant National University, Ahmedabad. […]
