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Ananya Dutta

KOLKATA: The peasants' wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Krishak Sabha, protested against the Centre's policies on agriculture, its removal of subsidies and its impairment of the Public Distribution System at a large rally here on Monday.

Kalpana Jain / New Delhi March 30, 2010, 0:59 IST

The stink is out of urine, literally and metaphorically, with a growing number of researchers spotting commercial and ecological value in a liquid most people consider waste.

Gandhinagar: Appalled by strong demand for organic fertilisers both from ruling BJP and Opposition Congress MLAs in the Gujarat state assembly on Thursday, state agriculture minister Dilip Sanghani blamed Government of India for failing to encourage it in a big way.

The United Progressive Alliance government plans to launch a mega advertisement campaign to explain its new urea policy to the farmers. The campaign will also aim at thwarting the political storm arising out of the government

New York, March 2: A Swedish entrepreneur is planning to mass produce Peepoo, a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet, which may help millions of urban slum dwellers in develop- ing countries like India.

The bag, which is current- ly undergoing field trials in India and Kenya, is the brainchild of Anders Wil- helmson, an architect and professor in Stockholm.

Tuticorin: Tamil Nadu Integrated Agriculture Modernization and Water bodies Restoration Management (TN-IAMWARM) has been implementing a scheme with the assistance of the World Bank in the Shencottaiyar sub-basin at Vilathikulam taluk in Tuticorin district.