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Biggest ever Super El Niño may be coming next month and it could be worse than the 1877 disaster that killed millions in India and ChinaForecasters warn a powerful Super El Niño, similar to the one causing the 1876-1878 famine, could develop in 2026. This event is linked to ...- Mumbai: How truck drivers' strike can make your morning tea and coffee bitterMost trucks transporting chilled milk from cooperatives or farms and a handful of corporates in Maharashtra's hinterland, Gujarat, Madhya P...
- Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah announces waiver of interest on crop loans at coop banksChief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the government will waive off interest on medium and long crop loans disbursed by cooperative ba...
- Putin’s Ukraine war has three lessons for global food suppliesRussia’s invasion of Ukraine forced global food producers, distributors and relief programs to quickly adapt to overcome the shortages – an...
- UN chief warns of 'catastrophe' from global food shortageU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine has added to the disruptions caused by climate change, the coronavirus pand...
- Why did India suddenly ban wheat exports?India previously said it was ready to help fill some of the supply shortages caused by the February invasion of Ukraine, which had accounte...
- Heatwave-hit India irks G7 with wheat export banThe announcement drew sharp criticism from the Group of Seven industrialised nations' agriculture ministers meeting in Germany, who said th...
- View: Why India is facing a shortage of oxygen of truth-tellingPandemics are not as easily preventable. But last year's infodemic - the glut of advice on kadha, gau mootra, giloy, steam inhalation and v...
- How India's water ends up everywhere but IndiaPutting so much water into rice grains and swelling cotton bolls seems a criminal waste of a precious resource.
- Supreme Court slams Tamil Nadu government for indifference to farmers hit by droughtTN was under an obligation not to allow "impecunious and poverty-stricken farmers to resign to their fate or leave the downtrodden and the ...
- Demonetisation: Mamata continues protest in Kolkata; visits RBI office, BurrabazzarMamata visited RBI office in Kolkata to inquire about the availability of Rs 100 and Rs 500 notes. She also made a surprise visit to Burrab...
- Why two consecutive droughts don't affect India the way it used to?Two back-to-back droughts years have made so little impression on the lives and minds of people that they wonder why food prices are up.
- Lok Sabha members express grave concern over agrarian distressRaising the issue in Zero Hour, they sought remunerative prices for farm produce and cheaper credit and loan waivers to farmers.
- Yogendra Yadav wants Maharashtra government to resolve drought crisis soonFormer AAP leader Yogendra Yadav has urged the Maharashtra government to take immediate steps to resolve the drought crisis in the state.
- Maharashtra to levy drought tax on several itemsFinance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said the surcharge — he described it as essential but temporary and would be effective for the next fiv...
- El-Niño phenomenon: Lessons government can take from failings of Victorian predecessorsThe understanding is what can change our experience of ENSO today. Knowing that it is coming makes it all the more important to be prepared.
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Mullaperiyar Dam to decide course of votes in Tamil NaduTamil Nadu wants the dam height to be raised to 142ft, up from the present 136ft, so that more water could be saved and diverted.
- Trick or Treat?Life of Pi shows in grisly detail how a shipwrecked Pi, a vegetarian, is forced to eat meat for survival.
- Food crisis is a wake-up call for Asian agriculture: World BankWhen world rice prices hit $1,000 per tonne in May, Asian govts were forced to take a serious look at their neglected agriculture sectors.
- After farmers, Govt to rescue drought hit consumersEven as a Rs 3560 crore package for drought-hit farmers is under active consideration of the government, another proposal involving Rs 2,50...
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