Even as most parts of the State experienced monsoon bounty over the last few days, dark clouds of drought are hovering over the district. Crops sown in 82,000 hectares have failed owing to scanty rains.

The district administration, in a letter addressed to the Gulbarga Regional Commissioner, has brought the ground reality to the notice of the government.

Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has claimed that the protests being held in Raichur about the installation of 2400 MW supercritical thermal power plant at Yedlapur and Yeramaras were unjustifed.

T.V. Sivanandan

KIRADALLI TANDA (GULBARGA DISTRICT): Kiradalli Tanda, a small hamlet in a remote corner in Surpur taluk in Gulbarga district, is shunned by people from neighbouring villages owing to the outbreak of a rare form of skin cancer linked to suspected arsenic poisoning.

Once, the women of Muddana Guddi, a village in Raichur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, suffered from drought and poverty. With no alternatives except cursing their own troubles, they used to migrate to neighbouring states for work. Now, they are earning their own livelihoods by running a business worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.

The state health department will gear up to tackle any outbreak of rain-related diseases in the State, Health Minister B Sriramulu said on Wednesday.

Ramareddy Alavandi

Land prices have consequently shot up. The Shaktinagar campus area near Devasugur is ideal for industry, because of the availability of power, and water from the Krishna river.

To mitigate the impact of Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), Shell Foundation is initiating a campaign to create awareness on its hazardous effects, reports L Subramani

Study suspects gold mines to be the culprit H MUMTAZ knows something is wrong with Wandali village in Karnataka

D.K. Kishan Rao, Raichur: Laxmamma from Thimmapur village under Kanihal Gram Panchayat in Lingsugur taluk, has no more than two acres of dry land. Sunflower cultivation on this piece of land has failed owing to pest attack.

After the Green Revolution and the large scale use of hybrid seeds, most traditional varieties of seeds and crops have disappeared. While it is true that hybrid seeds give more yields in the beginning, the use of chemical fertilizers results in reduced crops after a few years and leaves the farmers in crisis situations.

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