The cost of making Amirta karaisal for an acre comes to Rs. 5-8 Cost-effective concoction: Ms. Rajareega mixing the karaisal at her farm at Muthupatti in Tamil Nadu When the application of even some of the best technologies fails to yield a good harvest, farmers tend to either sell their land or borrow money for planting a second crop. With successive failures and mounting debts, agricultural activity comes to a grinding halt. In extreme cases some poor farmers go to the extreme of committing suicide to escape from problems. Immediate need

The State will get 122 MW of power from a mega power project at Tuticorin at Rs.2.92 a unit, Electricity Minister A.K. Balan has said.

UPLIFTING RURAL ECONOMY: S.R.Rao, executive Director of Exim Bank (right), exchanging a memorandum of understanding on export of rural products with P.K.Kesavan (left), Director (Rural Business Hubs), Union Ministry of Panchayat Raj, in the presence of Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister for Panchayat Raj, and Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Commerce, in Nagapattinam on Wednesday.

You can knock off two more tigers from the 1,411 count. Days after the national tiger count came up with this alarmingly low figure for tigers left in the wild, forest officials have seized two tiger skins

Vishwa Hindu Parishad international general secretary Pravin Togadia has warned of a nation-wide popular agitation if the Centre went ahead with the Sethu Samudram Ship Canal Project.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme provides for 100 man days of work for a person a year Ariyalur Collector Xavier Chriso Nayagam (right), with students of Meenakshi Ramasami College at Thathanur in Ariyalur district enrolled under NREGP. ARIYALUR: For 200 students of Meenakshi Ramasami College tucked in Thathanur, a nondescript village near Jayamkondam in Ariyalur district,

The National Institute of Siddha will tie up with six other institutions in an attempt to make drugs to be administered to chicken affected by bird flu, said C. N. Deivanayagam, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Institute, recently. Briefing reporters at NIS in Tambaram Sanatorium at the end of a day-long

The report: "Independent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India' By: The Energy and Resource Institute, Delhi Tested plants: Kaladera (Rajasthan), Nemam (Tamil Nadu),

KOLKATA, Feb. 13: School-going children in West Bengal are more prone to get addicted to tobacco products. Thanks to the lack of awareness among people in these parts about the dangers of tobacco use. This was revealed by a voluntary organisation, West Bengal Voluntary Health Association (WBVHA) this afternoon who have been engaged by the Union health ministry to spread awareness about the ill-effects of tobacco.

The Congress appears to have decided that the Setu Samudram canal project is too much of a political hot potato to be carried out, as its ally DMK wants it. Party sources confirmed that a view had been taken on the Setu Samudram project, which is also being challenged in the Supreme Court, and the consensus is that an expert committee will be constituted to look into the project, a move clearly aimed at buying time.