The Centre has decided to declare the entire Bundlekhand region, the theatre of recent Congress-BSP political rivalry, as a

The government will soon come out with an exhaustive manual for practical management of drought mitigation and relief measures.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and local Indian institutions in Andhra Pradesh are addressing the gender aspects of coping with climate variability and longterm change within the project Gender-sensitive Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change: Drawing on Indian Farmers

BHUBANESWAR: A central team will visit the State from January 6 to assess the drought situation.

The team will tour different areas declared drought affected by the State Government.

The Government has submitted a memorandum to the Centre demanding Rs 2,257 crore from the National Calamity Contingency (NCCF) to deal with the situation.

With Claims For 2008-09 Crop Year Pending, Wait Gets Longer For The Affected
Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI

FARMERS covered under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) will have to wait another year to receive their claims despite 316 districts in 13 states being declared drought-hit this year.

BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing

Spurred on by clearance of a special package for Bundelkhand region, the National Research Centre for Agro-Forestry (NRCAF) will soon recommend its watershed experiment in the 13 drought-prone districts of the region to tackle water scarcity there.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the implementation of a drought mitigation strategy over a three-year period starting 2009-10 for the development of 13 districts in the Bundelkhand region.

As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord.

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday stressed the need for enhanced public-private partnership in an early warning and effective emergency response system to mitigate the effects of disaster.

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