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 …
THE agriculture ministry plans to allow private players to import and supply urea, as it looks to bring down the fertiliser subsidy bill that has touched Rs 1,00,000 crore in 2008-09. The ministry
It has become an annual confluence of ideas and ideology, a high-powered forum where Union ministers, chief ministers and those in charge of key ministries in strategic states meet to debate the hot-button issues of the day as well as discover the true state of their states. The seventh India …
India has called for an international vessel monitoring system to prevent illegal fishing by big nations in the territorial waters of other countries, said Minister of State for Agriculture K.V. Thomas here today. "I raised this matter in the fifth Conference of Fisheries Ministers held at Baiona in Spain on …
There's an old joke that goes: "Inflation is when you pay Rs 50 for the Rs 20 haircut you used to get for Rs 5 when you actually had hair." With the sharp spike in prices of essential foodstuff, it's no laughing matter. On the eve of the festive season, …
KOHIMA, Sept 16: An inter-Ministerial Central Team, led by S C Gargh, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Agriculture, is visiting Nagaland to assess and take stock of the prevailing drought-like situation in the State. According to a release issued here today by the Project Director of Drought Monitoring Cell Dr …
Union Minion of State for Agriculture K V Thomas had summoned the representatives of coffee growers to New Delhi to discuss the problems of growers recently. Interacting with the delegation, he said that Central Government wants to respond to their problems in an effective manner and even plans to find …
Though Governments in India are elected for a five-year term, the first few months set the tone and provide early hints about the course it plans to take. While it would be unfair to judge a new regime on the basis of its first 100 days in office, there has …
Even as almost half of the country (399 districts across 12 states) reeled under drought, a week of excess rainfall after three weeks of near normal rainfall across India has revived the hope of the government to recover losses in kharif crop output by further intensifying focus on next rabi …
New Delhi: The late revival of monsoon may just have taken the edge off the drought. There has been a sharp upturn in the area under crop cultivation since the beginning of August which bodes well for the rural economy and holds out hope for a better rabi season later …
Mumbai Even as the Ashok Chavan government sought financial aid of Rs 15,000 crore from the Central government to tide over the present scarcity situation, the Union agriculture ministry came down heavily on the state government for not spending Rs 446 crore at its disposal for various agricultural schemes. A …
Shreekant Sambrani / New Delhi August 29, 2009, 0:25 IST A toxic brew of subsidies and loan waivers has ensured farmers become dependent upon government dole instead of reacting to market forces, says Shreekant Sambrani. Columnists seldom experience regret, leave alone regret combined with outrage, on being proven right, something …
Rainfall activity over parts of central India and parts of southern peninsula during the last week may have brought some relief to the standing kharif crop, but the drought situation across the country has deteriorated with 278 districts being declared affected. This means more than 45 per cent of total …
Going a step ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP leader and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has urged all MPs to devote a higher share of their MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) funds for irrigation and drought-proofing works in their respective constituencies. Pawar has sent a letter to all …
Kochi, Aug. 25 Vadakkencherry Padasekhara Samithi, which is concentrating on organic paddy cultivation in Palakkad and Kuttanad, has requested the Union Agriculture Ministry to lift the blanket ban on rice exports. The Samithy
Samba: Even as Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir has accepted that the farm sector had suffered a loss of more than Rs 406 crore due to the failed monsoon, farmers of Samba district have urged the government to declare the region as drought-hit.
