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Nagpur: Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Friday launched a sharp attack against the BJP-led Maharashtra govt, accusing it of deceiving farmers with unfulfilled promises and reduced compensation. He demanded the immediate implementation of a blanket loan waiver and said, "Farmers don't want any more committees. They want justice."Speaking in the Legislative Assembly on a proposal concerning agrarian issues, the Bramhapuri MLA said that the govt had slashed previously announce ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 4: Union Minister for Agriculture, Farmers' Welfare, and Rural Development, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, reiterated the government's commitment to transforming Jammu & Kashmir into a global horticultural powerhouse, with a special emphasis on high-quality apple production. Addressing the 6th Convocation Ceremony of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST-K) in Srinagar on Friday, Chouhan outlined the government's strategic interventions aimed at making ...Read More >
New Delhi/ Angul (Odisha) [India], July 4: Jindal Steel today announced a significant milestone in its strategic growth journey. The Government of Odisha has issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) to the Company for the grant of a 50-year Mining Lease for the Roida-I Iron Ore and Manganese Block, located in Keonjhar District. Spread across 104.84 hectares, this vital mineral resource significantly enhances Jindal Steel's raw material security and underscores its commitment to integrated and sustainable ...Read More >
Guwahati, July 4: A letter from the Union Forest Ministry seeking action against the then Assam Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and Head of Forest Force (HoFF) has blown the lid off the illegalities carried out in Geleky Reserve Forest and Hailakandi's Innerline Reserve Forest where "large scale" constructions were being carried out for housing police battalions in gross violations of law. In an affidavit filed before the NGT, the then PCCF and HoFF had stated that there was "no i ...Read More >
New Delhi: An Indian-origin man has been arrested in the United States for allegedly attacking a fellow passenger during a domestic flight. The incident occurred on June 30 aboard a Frontier Airlines flight traveling from Philadelphia to Miami and was caught on video that has since gone viral. The video clip shows 21-year-old Ishaan Sharma, a Newark resident, in a physical altercation with another passenger, Keanu Evans, with both men appearing to grab each other by the neck as stunned passenge ...Read More >
The construction of the camps has been under a cloud since early 2024 and faced scrutiny from the environment ministry as well as the National Green Tribunal's principal bench and eastern zone bench (Kolkata). The Union environment ministry's regional office in Shillong has directed the Assam forest department to take legal action against Special Secretary (Forest) M K Yadava for authorising two commando battalion camps on forest land in "gross violation" of the law, official documents show. T ...Read More >
Nagpur: The Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has almost completed the Rs 132.49 crore phase 1 of the Tajbagh renovation and beautification project and is now awaiting Rs 95.87 crore to start phase 2 of the project. Under the first phase, NMRDA strengthened and beautified the main dargah, constructed a shopping complex, a choti dargah, shops, and other structures, including marble flooring. According to NMRDA sources, Phase 1 of the project received Rs 132.49 crore adminis ...Read More >
U.S. and India trade negotiators were pushing on Wednesday to finalise a tariff-reducing deal ahead of President Donald Trump's July 9 negotiating deadline, but disagreements over U.S. dairy and agriculture remained unresolved. WHY ARE FARM GOODS IMPORTS SENSITIVE IN INDIA? Agriculture and its allied areas contribute just 16% to India's $3.9 trillion economy, but sustain nearly half of the country's 1.4 billion population. As farmers remain the most powerful voting bloc, Prime Minister Narendr ...Read More >
Dibrugarh: In one of the largest anti-encroachment drives in recent years, the Lakhimpur district administration on Thursday demolished 218 illegal homes and cleared 288 bighas of encroached land across three Village Grazing Reserves (VGRs).The eviction drive, which was conducted under the supervision of district commissioner (DC) Pronab Jit Kakoty and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Gunendra Deka, saw a massive deployment of police and paramilitary forces, along with 12 excavators, at Phu ...Read More >
Mumbai: Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar launched a scathing attack on the Maharashtra government in the Assembly , accusing it of betraying farmers after winning the elections. He demanded an immediate and unconditional farm loan waiver and criticized the formation of committees as an excuse to delay action. Speaking on the opposition's proposal concerning farmers' issues under Rule 293, Wadettiwar said, "Before elections, the ruling alliance promised full loan waivers and fa ...Read More >
Raipur, Jul 3 (PTI) Faced with mounting protests, the Chhattisgarh forest department on Thursday withdrew its directive that had effectively barred all other government departments, NGOs and private entities from undertaking any activity concerning Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR). Forest Minister Kedar Kashyap has directed that the advisory be withdrawn, the department said in a statement. The directive was perceived by a section of society as an attempt to restrict rights, it said. Al ...Read More >
Raipur, Jul 3 (PTI) Faced with mounting protests, the Chhattisgarh forest department on Thursday withdrew its directive that had effectively barred all other government departments, NGOs and private entities from undertaking any activity concerning Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR). Forest Minister Kedar Kashyap has directed that the advisory be withdrawn, the department said in a statement. The directive was perceived by a section of society as an attempt to restrict rights, it said. Un ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has directed Assam's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) to initiate legal proceedings against Special Chief Secretary MK Yadava for unauthorized diversion of 11.5 hectares of forest land in the Damcherra Innerline Reserve Forest in Hailakandi district of Barak Valley. Yadava, who was then serving as PCCF and Head of Forest Force (HoFF), had approved the use of the forest land by the Assam Police Housing Corpor ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Zeenat, the three-year-old tigress from Maharashtra brought to Odisha's Similipal last year under translocation project, is believed to be pregnant after mating with a melanistic male tiger named T-12 Mahabal in May this year. If her pregnancy is confirmed, Zeenat would deliver cubs around August or September this year, said Prem Kumar Jha, Odisha's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife). Love blossomed after Zeenat was released into the wild in April this year. She made ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: With the kharif season underway and farmers facing an acute shortage of urea, agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has written to the Centre, urging immediate intervention to ensure timely and sufficient supply of the critical fertiliser. In letters addressed to Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers JP Nadda, Tummala highlighted the alarming gap between the state's demand and actual supply. The minister said the Centre had allocated five lakh metric tonnes of urea to Tela ...Read More >
Mumbai: The union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has given its final nod for a 4.7-kilometre twin tunnel under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) as part of the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR). "SGNP being a protected forest in the city, the approval is a major milestone and the final one," Abhijit Bangar, additional municipal commissioner (projects), told Hindustan Times. The final approval was granted by the forest ministry on Tuesday. Earlier, in January 20 ...Read More >
A prolonged dry spell and an unceasing heatwave have pushed Kashmir's fragile agrarian economy to the brink. As June largely passed without rainfall, streams dried up and irrigation canals shrank to a trickle, placing intense stress on paddy fields across the region. Large tracts of farmland in both southern and northern Kashmir now lie parched, leaving thousands of farmers struggling to save their crops. "Baked by relentless heat, the paddy fields have dried into cracked, brittle sheets of ea ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Although Karnataka has had good monsoon rain this year with major reservoirs brimming, 19 districts suffered an unexpected dry spell in June, defying forecasts of an overly wet season. However, officials suggest the deficit will not disrupt sowing activities and are breathing easy since more rain has been predicted in the months ahead.Contrary to predictions of an excessively wet June, the state saw uneven rainfall distribution in 19 of the total 31 districts. While overall rainfall r ...Read More >
MUMBAI - India is likely to get above-average monsoon rainfall, critical to the economy, in July after receiving 9 per cent above-normal rains in June, a senior weather department official said on June 30. The monsoon is the lifeblood of India's nearly US$4 trillion (S$5.1 trillion) economy, delivering almost 70 per cent of the rainfall needed to water farms and replenishing aquifers and reservoirs. Nearly half of India's farmland is not irrigated and depends on the annual June to September ra ...Read More >
Patna: Bizarre news is coming from Bihar's Jehanabad, where district administration constructed a road without removing trees coming in the middle of the way. The road is a 7.48-kilometre stretch, part of the Patna-Gaya highway. A ₹100-crore road widening project in Bihar's Jehanabad district has turned into a surreal and dangerous obstacle course after dozens of trees left standing in the middle of the newly constructed road. The 7.48-kilometre stretch, part of the Patna-Gaya highway, was mea ...Read More >
New Delhi: Imagine cruising down a wide, freshly paved road, no potholes, a clean stretch of asphalt, and a gentle breeze flanked by green trees. It could be the perfect drive, until suddenly, you find trees not on the side, but standing right in the middle of the road, turning your commute into a dangerous obstacle course. This bizarre and alarming scenario is real on the Patna-Gaya Highway in Bihar's Jehanabad district, just 50 km from the state capital. A Rs 100 crore road widening project, ...Read More >
Guwahati: Horticulture and Research Centre at Nagichara in West Tripura has launched experimental cultivation of 22 foreign and 13 indigenous improved varieties of mango to help farmers increase their income, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath announced on Sunday. Speaking at the Monsoon Mango Fiesta 2025 held at Narikel Kunj in Gandatwisa, a tribal region in Dhalai district, Nath highlighted the government's continued efforts to transform Tripura into a hub for mango cult ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Monsoon covered the entire country on Sunday, nine days before the normal date, advancing into the remaining parts of Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, west UP and Haryana, IMD said.This is only the fourth time in the past 25 years that monsoon covered NCR and remaining parts of northwest India the same day. The last time this happened was on July 13 in 2021, whereas the earliest date on which such an event took place was June 16 in 2013 -- the day Kedarnath witnessed a major disaster due to clou ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah, after inaugurating the headquarters of the National Turmeric Board in Nizamabad on Sunday, said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fulfilled a 40-year-old demand of millions of turmeric farmers across the country, particularly in Telangana. Addressing a farmer's meeting where he had also unveiled the logo of the NTB, he said "This promise made by the Prime Minister is now being realized. Nizamabad, known as the turmeric capit ...Read More >
Agartala, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a bid to boost the farmers' income, in all 22 foreign improved varieties and 13 indigenous improved varieties of mango are being experimentally cultivated at the Horticulture and Research Centre, at Nagichara in West Tripura, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath said on Sunday. Addressing the Monsoon Mango Fiesta-2025 at Narikel Kunj in Gandatwisa under tribal inhabited Dhalai district, the minister said that since the BJP government cam ...Read More >
Agartala: Ministry of development of north eastern region (DoNER) has approved a Rs 132-crore project to promote Tripura's iconic Queen Pineapple as a global brand. Speaking at the 5th CII Tripura Pineapple Festival 2025, agriculture and farmers' welfare minister Ratan Lal Nath said move as a significant step towards doubling farmers' incomes. He said DoNER was convinced by the potential of Tripura's pineapple and the state govt's roadmap for global recognition. "In international trade, pineappl ...Read More >
Chennai, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Coconut prices have surged sharply across Chennai, with retail rates touching as high as Rs 80 per kg, driven by dwindling supplies and high demand. In the wholesale market, coconuts are selling for Rs 58-60 per kg, while semi-wholesale rates range between Rs 65-70 per kg, according to Koyambedu Semi-Wholesalers Association President S.S. Muthukumar. Much of Chennai's coconut supply comes from Pollachi, Cuddalore, Puducherry, Thanjavur, and Udumalpet. However ...Read More >
Hyderabad, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated the National Turmeric Board headquarters at Nizamabad in Telangana, saying this fulfilled the long-pending demand of turmeric farmers. This marks a significant step towards strengthening India's turmeric industry and empowering farmers in the region. Speaking on the occasion, he said crores of farmers across the country, especially turmeric farmers in Telangana, had been demanding a National ...Read More >
Lucknow: UP is set to celebrate Van Mahotsav from July 1 to 7 under the guidance of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wherein the forest and wildlife department plans to plant a record 35 crore saplings across Uttar Pradesh, the highest in country.The department, working in close coordination with various other departments, has gathered 52.33 crore saplings and completed advance soil work on 72,912 hectares of land.A review meeting led by forest and environment minister Arun Kumar Saxena was held f ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a significant step toward promoting sustainable agriculture and water management in India, the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed an agreement worth $300,000 to be initially implemented in four Indian states. With this agreement, FAO aims to enhance water use efficiency through smart irrigation for climate-resilient agriculture and sustainable development, Takayuki Hagiwara, FAO Representative in India told ETV ...Read More >
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