Shimla: Opposing the Food Security Bill, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today cautioned that there were various aspects about it that would be imposed on the states, causing national problems at a time when farmers are already committing suicide because of small and marginal farming being unviable. Talking to reporters, [...]

Shimla: Apple production in the apple producing states of the country may have fluctuated over the last three years, but imports are steadily rising and pose a threat to marketing of the domestic crop. Responding to a Rajya Sabha question by parliamentarian Viplove Thakur, minister of state with charge of [...]

Shimla: Nomination for declaring the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) as a UNESCO World Heritage Site had been accepted and it would be granted the prestigious status after an evaluation is done early next year, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal disclosed while presiding over a Wild Life Board meeting he [...]

Jalandhar: Motorists and commuters here in the city and elsewhere were a harassed lot, yesterday, as farmers dumped tons of potatoes onto roads in protest of the low prices the vegetable was fetching in the markets. Having announced their intentions early, the farmers were only able to get 30 tractor [...]

Kailashahar (Tripura): The government would soon constitute a separate directorate under the Tea Board to boost tea production by small growers in India, Confederation of Indian Small Tea Growers Associations (CISTA) president Bijoy Gopal Chakraborty said here Thursday. “Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma recently told a delegation of CISTA that [...]

Shimla: Flood protection project on Swan River in Una district has been enhanced from Rs 160 Cr to Rs 220 Crore and the implementation period has been extended by a year to close in March, 2015, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal revealed here today. Presiding over a high level meeting, [...]

Chandigarh: Faced with a farmers threat about dumping potatoes on Jalandhar roads from 15th December, chief minister Prakash Singh Badal expeditiously asked state agency Markfed to offer subsidy to potato growers in distress. Earlier, the Punjab Rural Development Board was directed to release Rs 2 Cr to Markfed from the [...]

Jalandhar: Dismissing the oppositions campaign against FDI in multi brand retail as petty politics, Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh said that it would do farmers good and they would not have to throw away potatoes should it be allowed in the country. Speaking to the media here on Friday, [...]

Jalandhar: Potato farm prices dropping to as much as Rs 1 per K, farmer around Jalandhar have decided to protest on 15th December by throwing potatoes onto roads. To register our protest, we intend to start our agitation on 15th December by asking all potato growers to bring their crop [...]

Dehra Dun : Uttarakhand has a jumbo problem on hand, but the bureaucracy here apparently has more important things in mind, than being concerned of people getting trampled to death, or crops in villages being destroyed by wild elephants or for that matter traffic being disrupted for hours on the [...]