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 …
Be it at the Centre or at the state level, the Congress seems to have trained its guns on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) party president and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar. The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) in a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh has said that wheat, which …
Gargi Parsai Demand for setting up regulatory mechanism on pricing of seeds Appellate committee for grievance redressal to be quasi-judicial in nature NEW DELHI: The government failed to reach an agreement with the Members of Parliament, who moved for amendments to the Seeds Bill on the issue of price regulation …
New Delhi: Over 11,700 tonne of foodgrain worth Rs 6.86 crore were found "damaged" in government godowns, food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The FCI (Food Corporation of India) has taken penal action against the officials responsible, he added. "Reports have been received about …
It is often said of statistics that it is the only science that enables different sets of experts using the same set of figures to draw different conclusions. So when the Naveen Patnaik Government recently presented its annual 340-page Economic Survey report in the Assembly to claim that the state's …
Most people think there are two kinds of rice, a handful of coarse varieties and some refined versions like basmati. Wrong. There are actually thousands of indigenous varieties of rice, some of which could ensure permanent food security. Consider this. * Besariya is a traditional rice variety of Bihar that …
Experts Favour Regulatory Mechanism To Monitor Implications Devesh Kumar NEW DELHI EVEN as the fate of Bt brinjal hangs in balance, the parliamentary standing committee attached to the agriculture ministry has started examining the pros and cons of introducing genetically-modified food in India, with a panel of experts coming out …
India would adopt the Chinese model for ushering in the second Green Revolution which would obviously take place in eastern India, according to Agricul-ture Minister Sharad Pawar. Pawar
THE progress of monsoon has brought good news for the agriculture ministry and brightened its hopes of attaining the food production targets for the kharif season. Based on feedback from its officials and the various state governments, the Krishi Bhawan has been buoyed by reports of sowing of kharif crops …
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar called for tapping the growing demand for organic food in domestic and international market for the benefit of farmers and the country. Describing it as an ideal option for rainfed, marginal land and hilly areas, Mr Pawar said that promotion of organic farming will not …
Amitav Ranjan On a day when the UPA government and the Opposition battled over last month’s hike in petroleum prices, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar agreed to compensate farmers for the increase in diesel price with a direction to his officials to work out a proposal. Junior Petroleum Minister Jitin Prasada …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Ministry officials are keeping their fingers crossed for the southwest monsoon to revive in parts of northern and central India before putting in place a contingency plan for kharif (paddy) sowing. So far there has been a shortfall in sowing of paddy, pulses and …
NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP Brinda Karat has sought to know from the Centre the progress of its promised CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices by Dow Chemical in bribing Indian officials to sell the pesticide dursban produced by it here. In a letter to Union …
Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them. In a letter written to the union agriculture minister Sharad …
Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them. In a letter written to the union agriculture minister Sharad …
Sandip Das New Delhi: As Indian agriculture gets more and more impacted by changing weather patterns, which has become more acute in the last few years because of climate change, the ministry of agriculture through the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and state agricultural universities are working on district-specific …
