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 …
Drought fears will subside if the momentum generated is maintained in August After playing truant for almost 45 days, the southwest monsoon has started showing strong signs of revival in the critical western, central and northern parts of the country since Tuesday but this has not totally erased fears of …
Debris cleanup work by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have led to the contamination of rice crops in nearby areas, agriculture ministry officials said Monday. Radioactive cesium exceeding the government limit of 100 becquerels per kilogram was detected in rice crops from Minamisoma, …
The central government is planning to turn India's eastern states into an organic farming-hub, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said here on Monday. "Our priority is to develop Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and eastern Uttar Pradesh into an organic farming hub for development of the region and to provide …
The Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY) division of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation under the Union Ministry of Agriculture has sanctioned the second instalment of Rs 14.5 crore for the state as additional central assistance for 2013-14. The state government has been asked to ensure that project details of …
Irrigation project a la Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana soon. In a reversal of the UPA regime policy, genetically modified crops will not be a priority for the new government, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said here on Wednesday. “Only if absolutely necessary can genetically modified crops be looked at,” …
India’s new government will allow genetically modified (GM) crops into the country only if they are “very essential”, agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Wednesday, his first day in office. “I have spoken to government officials and feel GM technology is important. If it is very essential then we …
The Delhi government had claimed that it did not have adequate laboratories and could currently test for only 28 varieties of pesticides. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued draft regulations for food imports and may soon make it mandatory for importers of food and vegetables …
The court said it will not go into the ‘politics’ behind government’s decision to either allow or restrict field trials. The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed disinclination to issue an interim order on moratorium on field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops. A bench led by Justice H L Dattu said …
New Delhi : Referring to the suggestions made by expert panels for indefinite moratorium on open field trials unless shortcomings in the regulatory process are addressed, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the government why such trials of GM crops should not be banned till the final disposal of case. …
The court said it will not go into the ‘politics’ behind government’s decision to either allow or restrict field trials. The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed disinclination to issue an interim order on moratorium on field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops. A bench led by Justice H L Dattu said …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government to make its laboratories fully-equipped for testing the presence of pesticide residues in samples of vegetables and fruits sold here so that traces of all chemicals can be detected. A Division Bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul …
Parts of M.P., Rajasthan hit by rain, hailstorm The Centre will provide an assistance of Rs. 352 crore to farmers for replanting horticulture crops that were hit by untimely rain and hailstorm earlier this month in parts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan. The fund release was sanctioned by …
Nearly five dozen farmers in Maharashtra, MP have committed suicide this month over debt worries, say advocacy groups Unseasonal rains and hailstorms this month have damaged the winter-sown crops of millions of Indian farmers, but Rekha Garole lost more than others. Her 42-year-old husband Santuka killed himself this month after …
Puts Congress-NCP alliance under embarassing situation ahead of Lok Sabha polls About 23 farmers from the hailstorm and untimely rainfall hit villages in Maharashtra have so far committed suicides. Six each are from the underdeveloped Vidarbha region and Nashik in north Maharashtra, 10 from Aurangabad and one from Sangli. These …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government and the Union Agriculture Ministry to launch an awareness campaign about the harmful effects of pesticide residue in fruits and vegetable in the Capital and across the country respectively. Passing the direction, a Division Bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and …
The nod given to field trials of more than 200 genetically modified (GM) seeds by the Union Agriculture Ministry smacks of vested interests of the Congress-led government, claimed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kisan Morcha president Om Prakash Dhankar here today. The decision had been taken hurriedly without any research conducted …
Thirty-five agricultural scientists, most of them associated with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), on Tuesday mooted the continuation of field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops under their guidance, without a no-objection certificate (NoC) from the respective state governments. “Agriculture is a state subject, and state agricultural universities …
Punjab, Rajasthan oppose state’s plea on using Hansi-Butana canal Citing Centre’s alert on possible drought in 2014 due to the El Nino effect, Haryana today pleaded in the Supreme Court for using the 109-km Hansi-Butana canal by pumping water from the Bakhra Mainline (BML). Since the SC had restrained Haryana …
Even as the final call on the fate of genetically modified (GM) food crops in India will be taken by the Supreme Court, the government on Wednesday made it clear that it does not have any reservation against use of transgenic food crop if it passes the test of field …
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday ruled out a sharp fall in foodgrain production because of an anticipated adverse impact of El Nino on the southwestern monsoon. “Our Met department is seriously concentrating on this subject. We have seen this situation in 2009 as well. But according to the assessment …
