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 …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi August 25, 2009, 1:01 IST The central pool of food grains is insufficient to provide for families above the poverty line (APL) who are covered by the Targetted Public Distribution System (TPDS), if they are to be all included in the proposed National Food Security …
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram recently at North Block, apprised him about the severe drought situation in the State affecting 1.26 crore families in 26 districts. Kumar also extended full support to the proposed inter-State anti-Maoist operations led by the Centre. Kumar told …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Even as the number of drought-hit districts has risen to 246 in 10 States, the Centre on Wednesday declared that rice production might decline by 10 million tonnes this kharif, following a shortfall of 5.7 million hectares in paddy sowing. Some shortfall is also expected in …
246 districts declared affected; saving standing crop top priority, says govt. Close to half the country is reeling under drought or drought-like situation, with the number of districts affected rising to 246, as a poor monsoon has brought 29 per cent less rainfall, damaging standing crop.
The Centre has asked the States to take a slew of measures such as eliminating bogus ration cards and strengthening the public distribution system to tackle the crisis arising out of the failed monsoon. With the failed monsoon taking a heavy toll on kharif produce, especially paddy, the Agriculture Ministry …
The proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), which aims to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat per month at Rs 3 per kg to every family below poverty line, is likely to be delayed. Busy charting out strategies to deal with the drought, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar …
THE rainfall activity in the past few days over the northern India may have brought some smile on the face of the farming community, but the drought situation across the country has further deepened with 246 districts having been declared as drought affected. This means more than 40 per cent …
With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week, the country seems headed into the worst drought year over the last two decades. Signalling the seriousness of the crisis, the Government set up a 10-member Empowered Group of Ministers …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: With the India Meteorological Department declaring on Thursday a deficiency of 29 per cent in the southwest monsoon, the number of drought-affected districts has risen to 177. Last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said 141 districts were drought-hit. Dr. Singh will discuss the drought and price …
PM to address chief ministers on the situation on Monday. The government today constituted an Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, to tackle the drought situation in nearly one-fourth of the country. The term of reference for the EGoM includes assessment and monitoring of the situation …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government yesterday demanded interest subvention by the Centre on farm loans extended by commercial banks and regional rural banks (RRBs). Chief Secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy made this demand at the meeting of chief secretaries presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. While the commercial banks …
Refuse To Buy Pawar Line of Wait-And-Watch As Met Office Gives More Bad News TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: When increase in prices and fall in monsoon rainfall became the central concern for the entire Opposition to target UPA government in Parliament on Thursday, the weatherman provided more ominous news. …
Ranchi, Aug. 6: The state will seek a Rs 391-crore relief package from the Centre to battle drought. Chief secretary A.K. Basu today left for New Delhi with a proposal for the Union agriculture ministry. Adviser to the governor G. Krishnan, who holds charge of the agriculture department, told The …
The Uttar Pradesh Government has sought a special package from Union Government of Rs 7789 crore to fight drought, an official spokesman said here on Thursday. The State Agriculture Minister Chaudhry Laxmi Narain met the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi and requested him to release the relief …
Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir today said that Jammu and Kashmir will soon be country's first state to have a fully dedicated bio-plastic product manufacturing facility. During his recent visit to Delhi along with the managing director, J&K; Agro Industries limited, Dr. G.N. Qasba, the minister had pressed for …
The adverse impact of a deficient monsoon over kharif crop appears to be growing with the sowing of paddy lagging behind by over 65 lakh hectares as compared to the last year. This has forced Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to acknowledge the prospects of a
PAWAR ADMITS PADDY ACREAGE & PRODUCTIVITY HAVE DIPPED ON POOR RAINS THE Centre will provide a Rs 1,000-crore subsidy on diesel to paddy farmers for irrigation during the ongoing kharif season that would provide relief in times of erratic monsoon, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said here on Friday.
