Nukus (Uzbekistan): The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet

The Centre will on Tuesday hold a high-level meeting to finalise the implementation of the Rs 7277 crore Bundelkhand package announced earlier by the Government.

Even as the Congress denied that there was a disconnect between the party and the government on the Food Security Bill, party leader and Defence Minister A K Antony and Rural Development Minister C P Joshi stood out in pushing Congress

The Haryana government has allocated a sum of over Rs 79.28 crore for payment of relief to farmers of Bhiwani and Hisar districts whose Rabi crops-2008 were damaged due to drought.

The State Government has recognised 36 tehsils as drought affected on the basis of norms laid down by it. For wide information to general public the Revenue Department has published a notice in this regard.

Uttar Pradesh (UP) is all set to acquire automatic weather stations equipped with sensors thereby making weather forecasting farmer friendly. The unique facility will be put to use for the first time in India on the lines of Australia and USA.

The Shibu Soren government today admitted that the drought scenario was critical, but refused to declare the state famine-hit.

It, however, agreed to make efforts to improve irrigation facilities and provide foodgrain to the poor to prevent starvation deaths.

The Opposition consequently staged a walkout.

The importance of irrigation for development of agriculture sector cannot be underestimated, but unfortunately, as per records available, the State Irrigation Department has so far been able to provide irrigation facilities to less than five percent of the crop land of Assam as a good number of projects of the department are either partially or fully damaged due to paucity of funds and lack of pro

New Delhi: Politically charged Bundelkhand