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Chandigarh: The Centre on Sunday rejected Punjab’s charge that it was “deliberately denying” the state a drought-relief package in the wake of deficient monsoon rains. “There is no such thing.

Recently, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had said that the gap in sowing area is wide in drought-affected states and production of coarse cereals and pulses is expected to be lower than last yea

Jaisalmer: Rajasthan’s desert region has gone from grey to green in little more than a month.

The meeting of the Cauvery River Authority, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and attended by the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, on Wednesday failed to resolve the water sharin

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Rain-deficient Punjab and Haryana will perhaps have to work harder to attract Centre’s attention to monetary losses it suffered due to an errant monsoon this year.

With 99 districts across five states — Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan — having already been declared hit by drought this year, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) hea