Giant In The Earth: M S Swaminathan

Dr Shreekant Sambrani pays tribute to Dr M S Swaminathan, the renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who passed away in Chennai last week. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Trinamool leaders detained for hours during dharna in Delhi

Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several other party leaders were detained on Tuesday night as they held a dharna at the Union Rural Development Ministry office in New......

Kerala: Missing woman worker found dead, buried at ex-colleague's house

A Kudumbashree worker, who had gone missing last week, was found allegedly murdered and buried in a ditch in the compound of a former colleague's house in Tuvvur in this district, police said on......

PM to inaugurate Kartavya Path, Netaji statue today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday inaugurate the newly-christened Kartavya Path -- a stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate that will have red granite walkways with greenery all......

In spite of abundant agri products why are farmers unhappy?

The irony of this scheme to benefit farmers is that it could add to the problems for the government because the mechanism to procure and store crops like pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds barely......

FM wields the axe on allocations

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has had a drastic haircut. A curious reporter asked him why. "Well, I can't cut expenditure", he grinned, "so I cut the only thing I had control over - my hair".That......

Order to return land: Singur farmers celebrate

Singur Farmers whose land was acquired to set up a small car factory in Singur on Friday applauded passing of an ordinance by the West Bengal government to return land to unwilling farmers.As soon......

Pawar takes charge as agriculture minister

The Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Monday took charge as minister of agriculture, consumer affairs, food and public distribution, beginning his tenure for the second time. Pawar......