Leaders of Balochistan National Party (Awami) Kharan unit demanded of the government to ensure provision of compensation and other relief measures for farmers affected by Chaghi atomic blast.

Letter to Inspector General of Forests (MOEF) from deputy secretary to the Govt. of Gujarat on diversion of 1840 ha. and 168.41 ha.

LUCKNOW: It is not only the allotee whose plots in Vyom Khand were cancelled by LDA a fortnight back. Resentment also brews amongst the farmers whose land were acquired by authority for the scheme only to get the land use changed back to green belt. Farmers now fear that the compensation due to them would get hung up.

The Moonak belt should be declared drought-hit by the Punjab government as farmers of the area have been facing a drought- like situation due to deficient monsoon. Besides, the farmers are under heavy debt and this belt has a high incidence of suicides.

Sri Lanka government has decided to pay compensation for houses damaged by the recent floods in the Kalutara and Ratnapura districts.

The Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services said that nearly 60 houses in these two districts have been damaged by the floods.

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded a complete waiver of the agricultural loans of poor farmers in the state to ensure that

Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) has submitted Tk 300 crore compensation proposal for resettlement of 1,300 affected families in seven villages of the country's coal project areas in Dinajpur.

The grouse of the landowners is that the government is offering poor compensation

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi while taking part in a high-level meeting held to review the drought-like situation today said that he would instruct all the Ministers to take up the cases of the farmers not getting loans with the banks in their respective districts.

NEW DELHI: With Delhi having received just 141.8 mm of rainfall till August 10 this year as against the normal average of 394.7 mm, which marks a deficiency of 64 per cent, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Naresh Kumar has met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and demanded that the Capital be declared

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