Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Nabin Kisan Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to discharge of wastewater by the municipality of Belpahar on the applicants land. The affidavit filed by the District Magistrate, Jharsuguda, May 14, …
Finance minister P. Chidambaram has been observed to be in unusually relaxed and mellow moods, as he worked towards the fifth budget of the upa government, and his seventh overall. Talking to Anupam Goswami, he explains the reasons for confidence in the state of the economy: Mr. Chidambaram, this was …
More measures to incentivise investments in agriculture are required to be taken, to ensure sustainability of returns in this sector The tilt of the budget is towards the less privileged - the farmers in the rural sector. So, finance minister Chidambaram can be excused for putting the upa's demand first …
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has said that the government would soon introduce a scheme to boost agriculture under which progressive farmers would be given prizes. Speaking at a kisan mela organised jointly by Dr .Y.S Pramar University, Solan, and the Agriculture and Horticulture Departments during the three-day Holi festival …
With the precision of a director's cut, Mrs Gandhi has swung her attention to farmers whose lands have been acquired by the government or private companies for big-ticket infrastructure projects such as SEZs, integrated townships and other industrial corridors. A senior Congress leader close to Mrs Gandhi talks about avenues …
The Rs 60,000-crore farm loan waiver package has come under the scanner of world bodies such as Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The OECD is keen to examine if the package falls under the category of trade-distorting farm subsidies in …
More than 200 buffaloes were killed on Thursday when a fire swept through wooden sheds at a farm in Cattle Colony in Landhi. According to eyewitnesses, the fire erupted at around 3.30pm when one of the farms in the colony caught fire from the smoldering dung cakes and straws burnt …
The farm loan waiver announced in the Union Budget is like a key crossroads from which major roads go out in different directions, each signifying opposite journeys and consequences. It is the biggest event of its kind, the fiscal payout of Rs 60,000 crore being virtually three times larger than …
APHID attack this season is fast becoming a cause of worry for wheat growers. The attack of this sucking pest is visible almost throughout the state. Experts warn that if things get worse, a fall in the yield of wheat cannot be ruled out. Scientists of Punjab Agricultural University, who …
Farmers in the state are in for a bonanza as power companies have chalked out a strategy to write off 100 per cent surcharge and 50 per cent energy charge of the power bills due against them for using water pumps. Accordingly, the power companies have instructed field officers to …
Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) has launched 'Participatory Rapid Horticulture Appraisal' scheme to conduct a rapid appraisal of the horticulture sub-sector with an aim to identify those horticulture crops, which offer the greatest potential for growth. Under this scheme, ASF would focus on 17-key horticulture crops throughout Pakistan. These are mango, …
Sangli/Osmanabad: The government has got a reminder on Rahul Gandhi's "suggestion' to expand the scope of the Rs 60,000 crore farm waiver, with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi declaring that she has told PM Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram to relax the twohectare eligibility criterion for relief for the …
Out of all the things that this Union Budget has talked about, whether it's increasing the slabs for personal income tax that helps the middle classes, or reducing customs and excise duties to enhance consumption, or unprecedented increases in financial allocation to education, health and skill development, the one thing …
Various farmers/agriculturist bodies have accused the caretaker government of releasing 600,000 acre feet of water in January from the reservoirs to produce electricity instead of conserving it for crucial watering of wheat crop in the month of March. Founder President of Punjab Water Council, Farooq Bajwa told Business Recorder here …
It was perhaps a first for Palaniappan Chidambaram. He had a most unusual effect on Lok Sabha MPs last week. Minutes after he delivered his Budget speech, MPs across party lines were on the phone, cancelling weekend parties and making arrangements to head home. It was almost as if he …
THE BJP has demanded that the Centre demonstrate that it was serious about ameliorating the condition of farmers by preparing a ten-year action plan for the revival of the sector. The BJP has promised that it would reduce the interest rate for loans to the farm sector to 4%, given …
The funding package announced by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram though belated should go a long way in dispelling doubts over the United Progressive Alliance government's showpiece farm loan waiver programme that is going to be one of the main planks for the forthcoming general election. The Rs.60,314 crore scheme providing …
As a result of special recovery campaign of water cess (Aabiana), the Punjab government has been able to recover an amount of Rs 9.73 million in eight days from the defaulters. This was disclosed by the General Manager Operations of Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) Muhammad Ashraf Khan Niazi …
Andhra Pradesh has been galloping ahead on the road to progress and prosperity at incredible speed in the last four years. Till 2004... every other day, the State had to depend on overdrafts on the RBI to meet its commitments including clearance of bills and payment of salaries. Large sections …
The world is slowly I moving towards a crisis in the food sector. The good news is that India on its own can find a solution to it. It is the time to transform ourselves into a food bowl for the rest of the world. But there are certain issues …
The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar, was recently in Nagpur to attend a conference. He volunteered to visit Koljhari, Bodhbadhan and Waiphad villages that witnessed many farmer suicides. At Waiphad, he met with a group of farmers and farm labourers who were eager to talk to him. …
