The Punjab farmer is facing the burden of debts, Mr Sukhpal Singh Khera, vice-president of the Youth Congress, Punjab, said yesterday. Unable to make their two ends meet, eight farmers in Chottian
A Rs 3-cr project to save land in the Bharial Bulge area from erosion due to floods in the Ravi has been cleared by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, according to Mr S.S. Ghuman,
For the first time the state has a Horticulture Minister, Mr Narinder Bragta, from the apple belt, an event that has sent the minister and his supporters into a frenzy of delight. But this joy could
The National Fish Workers Forum has undertaken a massive exercise to prepare a data base on violations of the coastal regulatory zone notification. A series of workshops are to be held in the country
Governments across the developing countries, including India, are battling with the inescapable problems of emissions from their aged, overloaded and poorly maintained vehicle on their bad roads in
The issue of enhancing compensation payable to displaced farmers under the Upper Krishna Project rocked both Houses of the Legislature today and the Council was adjourned amidst a dharna by Congress
Microsoft's perfect "tune-up" for its widely used operating system(OS) needed a tune-up itself. Windows 98 crashed as Bill Gates provided a glimpse of its features at a computer trade show. The
Panel: The R.V. Gupta committee appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to suggest measures for giving an impetus to the flow of credit to the agricultural sector, has suggested that commercial
When a legislator asked during a half-an-hour discussion in the Maharashtra Assembly if you could get AIDS from mosquito bites, Health Minister Daulatrao Aher, a doctor, was appalled.So was the Chief
