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 …
Dursban 10G, Nurella-D and Pride of Dow AgroSciences & Emamectin Benzoate imported by Syngenta banned following cos’ unethical practices The Agriculture Ministry has cancelled the registration of pesticides Dursban 10G, Nurella-D and Pride, manufactured by Dow AgroSciences India, and Emamectin Benzoate, imported by Syngenta India, over ‘unethical practices’. The order …
In a move to rationalise the Centrally Sponsored Schemes under the agriculture ministry, the government will bring down the number of such schemes to just eight from the current 52 in the 12th Five Year Plan that starts from the next financial year. Such a pruning will not only help …
In the run-up to the finalisation of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17), the Agriculture Ministry has decided to rationalise its range of ‘Central sector schemes’, marking some of them as national priorities and leaving state governments to focus on items based on their needs. The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, …
Jakarta: India will keep polluting industries out of proposed mega industrial towns aimed at boosting the share of manufacturing in the country's Gross Domestic Product, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said here today. "What is being proposed is... from the perspective of investing in green technologies. We are very …
The Ministry of Agriculture, which is entrusted with the task to implement 50 odd Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), will have lesser schemes in the 12th Five Year Plan period (2012-17). The 50 odd schemes with a total outlay of Rs 15,034 crore in 2011-12 would be reduced to 6-7 schemes …
Sharad Pawar had mooted the idea last week. Jairam RameshIn a season of inter-ministerial rifts, another one has surfaced. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is opposed to using funds under the government’s flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) to provide cheap agricultural labour to farmers. The idea was mooted …
FEW laws have been embraced as wholeheartedly by industry as BRAI or the Biotech Regulatory Authority of India Bill, 2011. Yet to be introduced in Lok Sabha, following a last-minute hitch, the proposed law has received the full support of the Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE) and other leading …
Bhopal : The State Government has reconstituted industrial advisory council which was constituted for installing an ‘industry friendly administration’ in the State. The council constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister is comprised of Commerce, Industries and Employment and Information & Technology Minister as vice chairman while Principal Secretary …
Bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal with poultry samples from five gram panchayats of Tehatta I block in Nadia district testing positive for H5N1 (avian influenza) at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal. Sixty teams, comprising 420 people, from the animal resource development department and district …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to look into and resolve inter-ministerial differences that forced deferment of the new National Manufacturing Policy by the Union Cabinet last week. The National Manufacturing Policy, placed before the Cabinet on September 15, …
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has laid emphasis on getting remunerative prices for agricultural produce to farmers in view of rising prices of farm inputs, such as seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and fuel, and called for bringing together the MGNREGS and farmers to help augment the agricultural output. Addressing a national …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Sharad Pawar-headed agriculture ministry to respond to a PIL which sought implementation of the National Policy on Farmers and said despite spiralling agricultural product prices, the tillers continue to be poor and debt-ridden and were forced to commit suicide. A bench of …
A national convention of farmers and agricultural scientists to be organised here this Saturday will highlight innovative practices and scientific research and development in the agriculture sector for enhancing crop yield, improving seed varieties and scaling up soil productivity. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan …
In May when Kerala banned seven highly toxic insecticides so that it switches to safer chemicals, it did not fare better. It ended up replacing them with six others, banned or severely restricted in most parts of the world. For instance, it replaced carbofuran, a pesticide that affects the nervous …
The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers is expected to apprise the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) of its reservations on the decontrol of the urea price as it will have an adverse impact on the marginal farmers. The ministry is likely to move a Cabinet note on urea decontrol …
Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Sharad Pawar to take steps to delay the implementation of the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) by three years. A chamber delegation comprising senior president S. Rethinavelu, president N. Jegatheesan and other …
The State Variety Approval Committee, at a meeting in Ludhiana today, approved HD 2967, a new wheat variety, to replace the existing PBW 343, which is being phased out because it has become increasingly susceptible to yellow rust. The new variety was formally approved at a meeting of the Approval …
Eminent city scientists on Tuesday made a plea to the Prime Minister to lift the moratorium on commercial production of Bt Brinjal and called it absolutely safe for human consumption. Scientists were drawn from Government institutions, including Indian Agriculture Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture; Department of Biotechnology, Government of India; …
New Delhi Land acquisition overseas for farming could soon become a reality. The agriculture ministry plans to announce a policy that will allow farmers to buy land in continents like South America and Africa to farm for all sorts of crops. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source told FE …
AFTER imposing a ban on endosulfan, the Supreme Court is now examining the possibility of allowing export of the pesticide. On August 5, the court-appointed joint committee was given a three-week deadline to submit an interim report on the possibility of exporting and disposing of the endosulfan stocks with the …
