NGT bars desilting, mineral extraction at Bisalpur Dam in Rajasthan without green clearanceThe National Green Tribunal has ordered Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project Corporation Limited (ERCPCL) to stop desilting, dredging, and miner...
26 Nov, 2023, 04.06 PM IST
JSW Steel USA Ohio to invest USD 145 mn to upgrade operations"JSW Steel USA to invest USD 145 million in new projects to upgrade its manufacturing operations in Mingo Junction, Ohio. This is in alignm...
03 May, 2023, 12.12 PM IST
Suresh Raina claims MS Dhoni knows fans-created DRS full-form as ‘Dhoni Review System’Former Indian cricket player Suresh Raina recalled MS Dhoni’s perfect take on Decision Review System or DRS. The batsman revealed that Dhon...
19 Jan, 2023, 04.06 PM IST
Punjab targets 12 lakh hectares of paddy area with DSR techniqueUnder the DSR technique, paddy seeds are drilled into the field with the help of a machine that does seeding of rice and spray of herbicide...
22 May, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
Punjab: CM Bhagwant Mann meets farmer leaders, stresses on crop diversification, need to save waterMann held the meeting with members of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), the grouping which had led the stir against the Centre's farm laws.
17 Apr, 2022, 07.55 PM IST
nurture.farm first company to successfully generate and forward sell agricultural-related carbon credits in Indianurture.farm’s Alternate Wetting and Drying & Dry Seeded Rice (AWD-DSR) project covered 22,000 acres of rice paddy fields and involved over...
21 Mar, 2022, 01.32 PM IST
Corteva Agriscience inks pact to promote sustainable rice production in 40,000 acres UPThe project provides a framework for Corteva, 2030 WRG and a task force of multiple stakeholders to work towards transforming 40,000 acres ...
22 Jul, 2021, 01.01 PM IST
Hybrid rice: Corteva slowly making inroads into Bihar, Jharkhand; trains 90K woman farmersRural women were growing inbred rice, a self-pollinated home-grown rice, in a traditional way. Now, they are trained to grow hybrid seeds e...
05 Nov, 2020, 03.49 PM IST
Nokia, Voda Idea complete 1st phase of DSR deployment in IndiaAs part of the contract, Nokia has also deployed more than 5,500 TD-LTE massive Mimo (an advance 4G technology) cells in the 2500 Mhz spect...
03 Jun, 2020, 12.27 PM IST
Punjab govt advances paddy sowing, transplantation datesThe agriculture department had earlier fixed May 10 as the date to begin sowing of paddy nursery and June 20 for paddy transplantation, dur...
09 May, 2020, 07.35 PM IST
ET BUSINESS EXCELLENCE 2019 - TRAILBLAZERS IN THE LIMELIGHTSome of Bengaluru’s biggest achievers, admirable entrepreneurs, top-notch businessmen and generous philanthropists, were applauded at The E...
11 Nov, 2019, 07.05 PM IST
Substandard drugs are a bigger problem for India than fakesA review of the annual reports of the country’s top 10 pharma companies shows that words like “counterfeit”, “spurious" or “fake” drugs do ...
02 May, 2019, 08.11 AM IST
Vodafone Idea to use high-end tech to expand 4G coverage, defend market shareVodafone Idea expects the blend of these new technologies to expand the company’s 4G population (pop) coverage to 80% by March 2020 from 50...
22 Nov, 2018, 08.43 PM IST
Popular antacid samples fail quality tests, company claims they were counterfeitsThe Pantocid and Pantocid DSR tested by CDSCO were not manufactured by Sun Pharma, the official spokesperson for the Mumbai-based drug make...
18 Oct, 2017, 12.25 AM IST
China's 35-year addiction to cheap credit continuesThe recovery has been driven by a significant expansion in credit. Post crisis, new lending by Chinese banks has been around 30% or more of...
26 Apr, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Agri production likely to be hit by drought
The country's agriculture production is likely to be adversely impacted if the current drought conditions persist till September.
24 Aug, 2009, 05.42 PM IST
- Foreign cos may get FIPB nod for downstream investments
The wait is over for 30 foreign firms to get foreign exchange promotion board’s (FIPB) nod for making downstream investments.
05 Mar, 2009, 01.04 AM IST