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 …
Even as the Congress denied that there was a disconnect between the party and the government on the Food Security Bill, party leader and Defence Minister A K Antony and Rural Development Minister C P Joshi stood out in pushing Congress
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has supported the moratorium on Bt brinjal by the Union minister of state for environment, Jairam Ramesh. Singh qualified his support by saying the period of the moratorium will be decided by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC); the committee would also resolve the conflict among …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai March 25, 2010, 1:24 IST BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations, with total population of 2.7 billion, will explore opportunities of cooperation in the field of agriculture. The agriculture ministers of the four countries, during their three-day meeting in Russia on March 25, will finalise …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI India's food security high on his agenda, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will press for greater cooperation between Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) to boost the farm sector during a meet in Moscow this week. Mr Pawar will address a conference of the agriculture ministers of the …
After receiving flak from his political opponents over price rise, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is now trying to win them over. Sharad Pawar Acting on a request from Left leaders, Pawar will provide transport assistance to the farmers of West Bengal to help them export potatoes in a competitive …
LUCKNOW: Even as the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee advocated growth in rural sectors of the country, the exemplary efforts of three farmers from Uttar Pradesh were being recognised by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, just a few kilometres away at Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital, on Friday. Ajay …
A GOVERNMENT plan to buy ethanol for blending with petrol at a price of Rs 27 per litre may be limited to six months, although agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has asked the price to be frozen for the next three years in line with the demand by sugar mills. Mr …
Soil moisture, rising temperature may affect output. The buffer stocks of wheat are already close to 20 mt, nearly five times the minimum stock norms for this time of the year. There seems to be an orchestrated attempt to project a bumper crop of wheat. While the Agriculture Ministry last …
WITH state governments, the Planning Commission and two agricultural universities tasked to conduct research on Bt brinjal cautioning the Centre against immediate commercial release of the GM crop, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take a middle-of-theroad approach. Mr Singh is meeting ministerial colleagues Sharad Pawar, Jairam Ramesh and …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has stepped in to make it clear that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will not have the last word on the introduction of Bt Brinjal or any GM (genetically modified) food. This comes after a strong note from Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to the Prime Minister …
Worried over rising food prices hitting the common man, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government may roll out its flagship food security programme for an extended below poverty line (BPL) list. As it prepares to table the Food Security Bill in Parliament during the coming Budget session, the government may …
LUCKNOW: Here's something for agriculture skeptics to chew on. If government data from Uttar Pradesh's agriculture department is to be believed, the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in the state is well on its way to becoming a "second green revolution". While 2009-10 figures are still being reviewed, 2008 figures …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urged agricultural scientists to double their efforts to remove all misgivings on genetically modified (GM) crops from the minds of policy makers and the public. Inaugurating a two-day conference of Vice Chancellors of agricultural universities and meeting of Directors …
Days after Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh overruled experts to put on hold the release of Bt brinjal and said biotech research could not be left to the private sector, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that genetically modified crops could solve the country
