Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
With the monsoon continuing to elude many parts of India, the central government has asked the governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka to implement contingency plans in the wake of low rainfall, and is monitoring the situation in Rajasthan and the Saurashtra region in Gujarat. As of today, the southwest monsoon …
MUMBAI: The state government is seriously considering switching from genetically modified (GM) cotton to more conventional cotton seeds. A plan to phase out and look for alternatives of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton is being chalked out by leading state agricultural universities with the help of private companies. The government has, …
Scientists aided by supercomputers are trying to unravel one of Mother Nature's biggest mysteries -- the vagaries of the summer monsoon rains that bring life, and sometimes death, to India every year. In a first-of-its-kind project, Indian scientists aim to build computer models that would allow them to make a …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday gave further momentum to an alternative proposal that seeks to replace rigid provisions in the National Food Security Bill with “liberal” options that will give greater flexibility to states while legally binding the Centre to a higher food subsidy burden than the estimates for …
The State-level committee on Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) sanctioned nine new projects under the second green revolution programme on Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture has sanctioned Rs 217 crore to the State under the Centrally-sponsored Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) to bridge the yield gap in the …
Karnataka on Tuesday sought interim relief of over Rs. 2,000 crore from the Centre to deal with deficient Monsoon rains leading to acute scarcity of drinking water and fodder in the state. "We explained about drought-like situation in Karnataka. We have asked Centre's help. We have requested interim relief of …
In his first meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after taking over as Karnataka Chief Minister, Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday requested central assistance of Rs 2,000 crore for the drought-like situation prevailing in the state due to deficient rainfall this year. “Fodder position has become precarious. Drinking water is being …
In an apparent attempt to provide a fresh push to the Congress’s manifesto promise of Right to food, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to step in to instil a clarity on the way forward for the national food security legislation that the UPA seeks to get on the ground …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting tomorrow to discuss an alternative plan for the National Food Security Bill, the ruling coalition’s most ambitious social security programme. Also termed ‘Plan B’, it seeks to widen the numbers covered under the programme to about 68 per cent of the entire …
New Delhi: Monsoon might be recovering on an average across the country, but some pockets could be staring at a severe drought even as almost half the rainy season is over accounting for little rainfall. So far, the worst-hit is Gujarat, where the deficit ranges between 66% and 71% in …
The country’s foodgrain output will touch an all-time high of 257.44 million tonnes in 2011-12, according to the Government’s latest estimates. This represents a 5.17 per cent growth over the final output of 244.78 mt in 2010-11. The fourth advance estimates, released on Tuesday, pegged the foodgrain output 5 mt …
In a tactical policy shift, the state government has decided not to give sanctions to new mega irrigation projects as they become economically non-viable. The new land acquisition policy, which is under consideration, is going to make it more difficult to undertake mega projects as the government has to shell …
Drought-like conditions in some parts of the country have prompted the government to recommend contingency crop measures for states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In the past one week, the country has received 1% above normal monsoon but rain deficiency in these states …
Guwahati, July 11: The team sent by the Centre to assess flood damage in Assam today split into three groups and visited different affected districts, where the crop loss in the current wave has been pegged at Rs 993 crore. Till date, 125 persons have perished in the floods, which …
A nearly 45 per cent dip in rainfall this monsoon has set alarm bells ringing in Jharkhand. The panic has forced the Government to initiate some early steps, which include giving Ministers charge of all the districts and kickstarting a series of meetings involving officials from agriculture, water resources, revenue, …
India has decided that antibiotics should not be used at any stage of honey production, thereby conforming with the norms of European Union. The recommendation of the Food Safety and Standards of India (FSSAI) will soon be notified by the Union health ministry which will make mandatory for the producers …
Amid growing concern over a slow and weak progression of this year’s southwest monsoon, the government today assured the nation that the situation for most kharif crops, barring coarse cereals, had not turned worrisome yet. Experts, however, cast doubts over the claims, particularly on water-intensive paddy cultivation. The situation in …
With over 30 per cent rainfall deficit across the country a month after the monsoon, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday admitted the position was not “fully satisfactory”, but allayed fears saying that it was not “too serious” either and pinned his hopes on the revival of the monsoon in …
With the southwest monsoon playing truant in northeast and central India, the Centre has asked States to be ready with alternate crops that are hardy, and can withstand dry conditions. There are reports that in some north-western states, farmers have slowed down sowing, in the hope that the monsoon will …
SHILLONG: The Northeastern States of the country are going to get Rs 100 crore within this year from the Agriculture Ministry for supporting various activities relating to rice cultivation under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM). All the eight Northeastern States including Sikkim are being covered under NFSM-rice this year. …
