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IIT Kharagpur develops solar-powered pest control system for smaller farm fieldsThe research team has developed a self-propelled boom-type sprayer that can be operated using solar energy while safely guided through the ...
09 Feb, 2021, 02.12 PM IST
View: Farm distress cannot be resolved without letting farm prices rise to global benchmarksFreeing farm prices, diverting a large part of the subsidies to productivity boosting investment and giving some subsidy as cash support wi...
20 Feb, 2019, 06.35 AM IST
View: Eventually, voters will have the last laugh in GujaratVoters will have the last laugh but till then pollsters, pundits and leaders alike will clutch onto past data and demographic records to de...
09 Dec, 2017, 10.21 AM IST
Centre issues guidelines on sustainable sand mining, proposes crackdown on illegal minersThe Union environment ministry on Wednesday came out with detailed "guidelines on sustainable sand mining" in the country.
10 Sep, 2015, 11.38 AM IST
- Forest Advisory Committee recommends scrapping 1,500 MW Tipaimukh project in the North East
The committee turned down a proposal for the diversion of 1,550 hectares of forest land required for the project in Mizoram at its last mee...
08 Sep, 2013, 07.30 AM IST
- Climate change: With higher incomes, people will care more for environment
Freer trade will allow more people to escape poverty and secure sufficient food and clean water.
21 Dec, 2012, 05.03 AM IST
- Domestic cotton now gives Bt variety a run for its money
A large percentage of cotton farmers in Rajasthan have still not adopted the Bt variety because they are happy with the desi variants.
11 Jul, 2012, 08.28 AM IST
- DoT orders pobe into Tata-Unitech Deal
DoT has asked the corporate affairs min, I-T dept and the RBI to probe a transaction where TRIL had extended Rs 1,700-crore loan to Delhi-b...
09 Jun, 2011, 06.41 AM IST
- Tatas 'loan' to Unitech in 2007 under scanner
Investigators say a loan of around Rs 1,600 cr was advanced by Tata group's realty arm to Unitech in connection with the 2G scam.
29 Nov, 2010, 07.02 AM IST
- New policy to give farmers cheaper, wider variety of fertilisers for Rabi
Nutrient-based subsidy programme set to trigger competitive pricing; farm groups apprehensive over consolidation.
20 Apr, 2010, 05.19 AM IST
- Indian sugar companies eye acquisitions in Brazil
After steel, it seems to be sugar. Indian companies are hoping to grab a piece of the world’s sugar-ethanol market.
20 Oct, 2006, 02.48 AM IST