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Ajit leads cane charge, farmers defiant, won’t go below Rs 200

Friday 20 November '09

Politicking over sugarcane pricing spilled outside Parliament on Thursday with agitating farmers from western Uttar Pradesh swarming Parliament Street and Jantar Mantar and Opposition leaders cutting across the political divide making the most of it.
Ajit leads the cane charge

Friday 20 November '09

Politicking over sugarcane pricing spilled outside Parliament on Thursday with agitating farmers from western Uttar Pradesh swarming Parliament Street...
Mulayam’s Kalyan gamble fails, M-Y strategy in jeopardy

Friday 20 November '09

The recent by-election results to 11 Assembly segments in Uttar Pradesh have sent alarm bells ringing in the Samajwadi Party (SP) camp...
NDA CMs make a beeline for learning smart irrigation technologies from Israel

Friday 20 November '09

Two chief ministers of the NDA camp, Parkash Singh Badal of Punjab and Prem Kumar Dhumal of Himachal Pradesh, want to...
Mulayam’s crushed Firozabad hope: SP down, Congress up everywhere

Thursday 12 November '09

The Firozabad Lok Sabha seat — where voter turnout jumped to 53 per cent from 48 per cent in May, and where Dimple Yadav suffered a humiliating defeat — reflects the deep challenge SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav faces in Uttar Pradesh.
Mulayam’s Firozabad disaster: SP down, Cong up everywhere

Thursday 12 November '09

The Firozabad Lok Sabha seat — where voter turnout jumped to 53 per cent from 48 per cent in May, and where Dimple Yadav suffered a humiliating defeat....
Sugar, and the spice

Friday 6 November '09

With temperatures rising over the Centre’s new sugarcane pricing policy, and states adding to the confusion, our correspondent explains what lies behind the storm....
Rs 20 hike likely in wheat MSP

Thursday 5 November '09

Sandwiched between the interests of consumers affected by rising food prices and farmers reeling under the drought this year....
Remote sensing confirms China building dam

Wednesday 4 November '09

National Remote Sensing Agency confirmed that construction was on at the Zangmu site on the Chinese side of the Brahmaputra river.
Maya takes another blow, slips even below LS showing

Friday 23 October '09

BSP chief Mayawati’s attempts to spread its presence across the country suffered another jolt on Thursday with the party failing to even match its dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year....
Secys to discuss China dam

Thursday 22 October '09

With Arunachal Pradesh and Assam raising the pitch over the reported construction of dams on the Chinese side of the Brahmaputra....
In Google China map, Arunachal is in China

Wednesday 21 October '09

While China continues to claim Arunachal Pradesh as its own, technology giant Google seems to have decided to take a line to please both Beijing and New Delhi.
Punjab drew water in bulk for kharif, now struggles for rabi

Tuesday 20 October '09

While Punjab offered some comfort to the government during the drought by keeping its paddy sowing levels the same as last year...
The gene story

Friday 16 October '09

With the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) giving in-principle approval for the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal....
Central team gives nod to Baglihar-II

Friday 9 October '09

Almost a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 450 MW Baglihar power project on Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir...
Now, NREGS cards can be used for opening bank account

Tuesday 22 September '09

In A decision with major implications for the rural poor, the government has approved the job cards issued to them under the NREGS...
Met Dept sees start of monsoon end

Friday 18 September '09

A week of subdued rainfall activity has marginally deepened the seasonal rainfall deficit in the country, indicating beginning of the withdrawal of the monsoon season....
After protests, Govt changes norms: Dalit land first choice for NREG work, small farmers next

Wednesday 16 September '09

Land belonging to Scheduled Castes and/or Scheduled Tribes will be the first to be earmarked for works under the National Rural Employment...
Storm in a sugar cup

Tuesday 15 September '09

As the festival season sets in, the rising prices of sugar, which has more than doubled this year, has created a headache for the government.
CP Joshi’s Congress Employment Guarantee Council

Monday 14 September '09

Close on the heels of Congress president Sonia Gandhi exhorting party members to act as “guardians of NREGA” in the August edition of party mouthpiece Congress Sandesh....
Govt had a plan to to sell YSR chopper that crashed

Sunday 6 September '09

As the probe begins into the crash that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, it turns out that the state government...
YSR dream project likely to come up before Cabinet

Saturday 5 September '09

The national project status for the Polavaram multipurpose irrigation project on the Godavari, the most important part of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s ambitious Jalayagnam....
Govt plans 1 million new tubewells to tide over drought

Thursday 3 September '09

Though a little late in the day, the government is planning to launch an ambitious scheme to dig over a million shallow...
Running dry

Wednesday 2 September '09

With only one month of the monsoon remaining, the water levels in 81 crucial reservoirs are about 27 per cent below the..
Drought worsens as 278 districts declared affected

Friday 28 August '09

Rainfall activity over parts of central India and parts of southern peninsula during the last week may have brought some relief to the standing kharif crop....
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