Wednesday 16 May '07
Lok Sabha was adjourned for the entire day on Monday over the Babli dam. Andhra Pradesh MPs raised the issue of the dam within minutes of Parliament starting its business...Thursday 10 May '07
The Supreme Court go-ahead to field trials of Genetically Modified crops yesterday may have come as a relief to the industry and the scientistsWednesday
9 May '07It was a heated, impassioned and well-informed exchange. Except this time, all parties were on the same side as they stood up in the Lok Sabha to participate in the first-ever debate on global warming.Tuesday
8 May '07What happens to the 9000 glaciers covering 38,000 square km of the Himalayas holds the key to understanding the effects of climate change in India and evolving a strategy to tackle it.Sunday
6 May '07Climate change is not all about gloom. The turn-of-the-century doomsday scenario could just as easily translate into opportunities. The trick is to heed the warning signs, adapt and evolve.Sunday
6 May '07Global warming is a reality to which India must quickly attune its policies and technology. The positive aspect is it offers a new growth path—and profitsWednesday
25 April '07The Supreme Court today asked the government to compromise and arrive at a decision to settle the long-standing dispute on the members of the Forest Advisory Committee...Tuesday
24 April '07If you live in certain parts of Gurgaon, New Delhi, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Jalandhar or Porbandar, you may not be able to dig new tubewells to extract groundwater.Saturday
21 April '07The India Meteorological Department, in its preliminary forecast yesterday, said that nationwide, rainfall this monsoon will be 5 per cent less than the average.Friday
20 April '07Even before the first wheat crop was brought to a mandi, the Finance Ministry met leading private players in the wheat market and “informally” asked them to go slow on their wheat buying for the first few days of the season.Friday
13 April '07Not only does the Government not reward the farmer for the quality of his wheat crop, its determination of the Minimum Support Price...Thursday
12 April '07Rajendra Kumar Sharma, a farmer with 40 bighas in Rajasthan’s Kota district, rattles off the names of the wheat varieties he’s been growing for the last five years...Wednesday
11 April '07Outside the government’s Bhamashah mandi, 10 km from heart of town, officials have installed a symbolic weighing scale in the courtyard and a banner announcing that the Food Corporation of India is ready to buy wheat at Rs 850 per quintal.Wednesday
4 April '07With a 4 per cent growth target set for agriculture in the approach paper to the Eleventh Plan, the Government has come to terms with the limited potential of growth in foodgrains contributing to this targeted growth.Monday
2 April '07With the coastal management plan to regulate development along India’s 7,500 km coastline likely to be delayed, a less stringent...Sunday
1 April '07Car Nicobar was one of the worst hit by the 2004 tsunami. But with the help of its Church, cooperatives and community, the people of this island have rebuilt their buildings and their lives.Friday
30 March '07Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today denied imposing any restriction on private traders for buying wheat from farmers, but senior officials maintained that instructions were issued last month to three major tradersWednesday
21 March '07There is news for malaria-ravaged countries, including India. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, US, have developed a genetically engineered mosquito that is resistant to malaria.Wednesday
21 March '07The chief secretaries of Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar PradeshThursday
1 March '07For the first time in a Budget speech, the Finance Minister devoted a good 15-20 minutes exclusively to agriculture.Wednesday
28 February '07Budget will announce slew of farmer measures: credit, targeted subsidy, irrigation, food processing incentivesTuesday
27 February '07Becomes first state in country to introduce women-responsive budgeting in 13 deptsSaturday
24 February '07Dow Chemicals has admitted that to “expedite” registration of its pesticides in India between 1996 and 2001, its senior management in India approved and made “irregular payments” to government officialsSunday
18 February '07India is on a heightened alert after avian flu was found lurking in its neighbourhood—Pakistan.Saturday
17 February '07An “agreement” signed yesterday at a British-led meeting on climate change in Washington is being hailed as the “way forward’’ after the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012.
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