The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a stay of the implementation of the contentious three new farm laws hoping this will end the prolonged protests by the farmers and also constituted a four-member panel of agri experts to resolve the impasse between their leaders and the Centre.
Some of the reaction to India's bombing on Pak terror camps.
The government is yet to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into the issues of farmers' suicides despite eight months having been passed since this proposal was agreed to in Parliament.
Union Minister Harish Rawat, who was sulking after having been denied chief ministership of Uttarakhand, on Sunday had all smiles as celebrations broke out at his residence in New Delhi over his elevation to the Cabinet rank.
Production in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are likely to be higher this year.
Since 1979, the BJP has not fielded any Muslim candidate from any parliamentary seat from the state.
The minister said production of fodder has dipped due to severe drought conditions in various parts of the country affecting the livestocks population.
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Haryana and Punjab have sought Central assistance for drought mitigation across various sectors including feed and fodder, Minister of State for Agriculture Charan Das Mahant said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
West Bengal's new Minister of State for Agriculture Becharam Manna on Wednesday faced angry protests from farmers who had lost their land in Singur. The farmers said they would not have joined the agitation against Tata Nano's project had they known they would be left to their fate.
Unfazed by the revolt by Union Minister Harish Rawat, Congress high command has ruled out any re-think over the issue of chief ministership in Uttarakhand, declaring that party MP Vijay Bahuguna will take oath as the new chief minister on Tuesday as scheduled.
Union minister Harish Rawat, who lost in the race for Uttarakhand chief ministership, is sulking and said to have resigned from the Union government.
A bailable warrant has been issued against Muzaffarnagar riot accused including Union Minister Sanjeev Baliyan, BJP MP Bhartendu Singh, party MLA Suresh Rana and Sadhvi Prachi by a local court in Muzaffarnagar for not appearing before it in a case of violating prohibitory orders and inciting communal tension by making speeches.
Madhya Pradesh Minister of State for Agriculture Brajendra Pratap Singh was not allowed to board the Delhi-bound Air India flight from Raja Bhoj Airport in Bhopal on Saturday despite him carrying a proper ticket.
Without making big-ticket changes in the economic ministries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday shifted Law Minister M Veerappa Moily to the ministry of corporate affairs and inducted young Milind Deora in his council of ministers.
The MoEF last year had put a moratorium on introduction of Bt brinjal in the country following protests from farmers and environmentalists, who said GM crops are harmful for health and could damage the eco-system.
Union minister Sanjeev Baliyan and BJP MLA Suresh on Friday surrendered in a court in Muzaffarnagar after a warrant was issued against them.
Union minister of state for agriculture and consumer affairs K V Thomas launched the facility at a function in Kochi on Saturday.
Testing labs will be established at ports to check illegal export of cow meat, the government announced today in the midst of a raging controversy over the Dadri killing of a man over rumours of eating beef.
Inviting the business community of Commonwealth nations to invest in India, Minister of State for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs K V Thomas said opportunities for business during sports events are very large.
Prayers are conducted in this temple every morning and evening!
Already, the government has projected a dip in the production of summer foodgrain by 21 million tonnes, triggering fears about further price rise.
The total outstanding debt of farmers to banks in the country stood at Rs 5,90,728 crore on March 31, 2009, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.
The per capita supply of the foodgrain fell to 436 grams a day in 2008, compared with 442.8 grams in 2007 and 445.3 grams the year before, according to the data presented by the minister of state for agriculture, K V Thomas, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The per capita supply dipped even though the country's foodgrain production touched an all-time-high of 230.78 million tonnes in 2007-08, followed by another year of bumper output at 233.88 MT.
The new candidates fielded from these constituencies by the BJP are: SP Singh Baghel (Agra), Parameshwar Lal Saini (Sambhal), Raj Kumar Chaher (Fatehpur Sikri), Jai Prakash Rawat (Hardoi-SC), Ashok Rawat (Misrikh-SC) and Arun Sagar (Shahjahanpur-SC).
A day after being sworn-in, the new ministers took charge of their portfolios. Here's a look at the various new ministers on their first day at work.
India boycotted Pak National Day event over invitation to Hurriyat leaders.
Procurement will be done through domestic purchases as well as imports.
Contract farming, which helps farmers reduce the risks of production and marketing, thrives in several states with governments making suitable legal provisions.
He said the incident is not linked to communalism but it is a social issue concerning emotions of the Hindu community.
Stating that pushing GDP growth, which has slipped to 5-year low of 6.8 per cent in 2018-19, is the top priority, President Ramnath Kovind said Modi govt will bring more reforms and raise farm investments to boost growth.
The Indian government has admitted that global warming is taking its toll in agriculture production in the country.
Commentators in Canadian media highlighted that Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Shekhawat received Trudeau at the Delhi airport when he arrived on a seven-day India visit on Saturday evening and contrasted it against Modi himself receiving several world leaders at the airport.
The revelation was made by Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kantilal Bhuria while attending a function after inaugurating the newly constructed building of Agricultural Fertiliser and Processing Unit at Indira Gandhi Agriculture University.
The government on Monday said banks have provided Rs 95,064 crore (Rs 950.64 billion) in agricultural loans in the first six months of this fiscal, though the amount is less than half of the total farm credit disbursed in the entire last fiscal.
The Maharashtra Kisan Sabha announced that the strike will be intensified in the coming days.
Hazare said he was giving the government six months time till August to come good on its assurance and warned that his protest will again begin in September if the demands were not met.
It was a night of carnage in parts of Gujarat on Tuesday.
It won't be a surprise if Raju Shetti, the first to part ways with the National Democratic Alliance, citing agrarian distress, joins hands with the Congress and becomes part of the UPA.
The contribution of agriculture, including allied sectors, towards the gross domestic product has been estimated at 20.53 per cent in 2004-05, Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.
Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Agriculture, Hukum Dev Narain said all efforts would be made to achieve the foodgrain production target of 220 million tonnes set for this year.
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