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....Thursday 5 November '09
Sandwiched between the interests of consumers affected by rising food prices and farmers reeling under the drought this year....Wednesday
4 November '09National Remote Sensing Agency confirmed that construction was on at the Zangmu site on the Chinese side of the Brahmaputra river.Friday
23 October '09BSP 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....Thursday
22 October '09With Arunachal Pradesh and Assam raising the pitch over the reported construction of dams on the Chinese side of the Brahmaputra....Wednesday
21 October '09While 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.Tuesday
20 October '09While Punjab offered some comfort to the government during the drought by keeping its paddy sowing levels the same as last year...Friday
16 October '09With the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) giving in-principle approval for the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal....Friday
9 October '09Almost a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 450 MW Baglihar power project on Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir...Tuesday
22 September '09In A decision with major implications for the rural poor, the government has approved the job cards issued to them under the NREGS...Friday
18 September '09A week of subdued rainfall activity has marginally deepened the seasonal rainfall deficit in the country, indicating beginning of the withdrawal of the monsoon season....Wednesday
16 September '09Land belonging to Scheduled Castes and/or Scheduled Tribes will be the first to be earmarked for works under the National Rural Employment...Tuesday
15 September '09As the festival season sets in, the rising prices of sugar, which has more than doubled this year, has created a headache for the government.Monday
14 September '09Close 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....Sunday
6 September '09As the probe begins into the crash that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, it turns out that the state government...Saturday
5 September '09The national project status for the Polavaram multipurpose irrigation project on the Godavari, the most important part of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s ambitious Jalayagnam....Thursday
3 September '09Though a little late in the day, the government is planning to launch an ambitious scheme to dig over a million shallow...Wednesday
2 September '09With only one month of the monsoon remaining, the water levels in 81 crucial reservoirs are about 27 per cent below the..Friday
28 August '09Rainfall 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....Wednesday
26 August '09Going a step ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP leader and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has urged all MPs...Sunday
23 August '09Admitting that he had come to the “painful realisation” that he could no longer “meaningfully” contribute to the BJP....Saturday
22 August '09The government on Friday exhorted the eastern states, which usually record their agricultural productivity level below the national average...Thursday
20 August '09The proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), which aims to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat per month at Rs 3 per kg to every family below poverty line....Wednesday
19 August '09THE rainfall activity in the past few days over the northern India may have brought some smile on the face of the farming community....Wednesday
19 August '09Social activists who worked closely with Sonia Gandhi in conceptualising the NREGS in the UPA’s first term found themselves kept in the dark....
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