Wednesday 26 August '09
Going a step ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP leader and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has urged all MPs...Sunday 23 August '09
Admitting 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....Monday
17 August '09Though it can still boast of being the third-largest party after the Congress and BJP in the current Lok Sabha, the Samajwadi Party...Saturday
15 August '09The UPA government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme (NREGS), meant to provide livelihood security to the rural poor in times of need, appears to be faltering just when it’s needed the most.Friday
14 August '09With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week, the country seems headed into the worst drought year over the last two decades.Friday
14 August '09The Samajwadi Party, in its special session of the National Executive in Agra next week, will declare the Congress and BSP as two sides of the same coin and castigate.....Wednesday
12 August '09After widening the ambit of the NREGS to include works on the private land of small and marginal farmers, the Rural Development Ministry...Sunday
9 August '09With rainfall deficient in two-thirds of the country and the main sowing window for kharif already over, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a conference...Saturday
8 August '09PM meets Chief Secys today on food security; 0.3% may be shaved off GDP....Wednesday
5 August '09THE ambit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been significantly expanded by allowing under it work done...Tuesday
28 July '09Over 90 pct of districts monitored by Met department in seven rice-producing states have received scanty or deficient rainfall this monsoon.Monday
27 July '09In the din of concerns expressed over agriculture in Parliament, a small — but interesting — detail on organic farming got drowned.Monday
20 July '09The visiting US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, indicated that Indian agriculture might get funds from the $20 billion pledged by the G8 countries to boost agriculture output during the recent summit in Italy.Saturday
18 July '09Even as the monsoon picked up this week — which saw about 6 per cent above-normal rainfall — the sowing of paddy — the season’s main foodgrain crop....Saturday
18 July '09While the Opposition BJP staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha on Friday over the Indo-Pak joint statement delinking terrorism....Friday
17 July '09Though disapproving of UP Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s alleged “derogatory” remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati, the Samajwadi Party — the main Opposition party in the state — on Thursday found itself in a spot.Friday
17 July '09Though disapproving of UP Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s alleged “derogatory” remarks against UP Chief Minister Mayawati....Tuesday
14 July '09Citing her concept of “inclusive cities”, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Minister Kumari Selja...Wednesday
8 July '09Deficient rainfall in many parts of the country has started showing stress on the progress of sowing of kharif crops.Tuesday
7 July '09FOR a government in continuity, the first Budget of the UPA’s second term appears more cautious in breaking new grounds in the social sector and relies only...Saturday
27 June '09Water levels in 81 crucial reservoirs are at just 44 per cent of last year’s levels at this time, and at 65 per cent....
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