AGARTALA: State-owned ONGC is to set up a slew of projects in the nuclear, fertiliser, solar, wind power and lighting sectors, a top company official said Thursday.

Industry is the first to be blamed for pollution. However, in Punjab, which has only a modest industrial base, a major part of the total pollution comes from agriculture.

Jalgaon Usually, this time of the year, Jalgaon is abuzz with trucks ferrying mountains of fluffy white cotton to its markets.

But this year, farmers have been blocking roads with burning tyres and refusing to sell their produce in a bid to force the government to prop up crop prices, which they say barely cover costs.

New Delhi Companies in fertilisers and LPG, which are largely immune to the supply crunch on natural gas due to the stagnating output from the KG D6 block, could soon face serious input shortages.

In yet another scathing indictment tabled in Parliament, the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has reported that successive governments have made no effort to compile a list of water

The farming industry in the United States is second to none around the world.

New Delhi The finance ministry, which has been strongly pushing for decontrolling the price of urea, a commonly used fertiliser, has finally decided against it.

AGARTALA: The Tripura government has targeted to achieve paddy cultivation in more than 17,000 hectares of hill land under improvised Jhuming (shifting cultivation) method in 2011-12.