Consumers may have to pay substantially more for pulses, oilseed, and rice in the coming months if the government accepts the recommendations of an expert panel to increase farm-gate price of these commodities by up to 30%, further stoking food inflation. The Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), under the ministry of agriculture, has recommended a 25% rise in the floor price of cotton, 16% rise in paddy, 30% rise...
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Farm revolution: Indian farmers finally embrace mechanisation
-Reuters PERLE: As a shiny red harvester bounces across the black earth into the first row of sugar cane, excited schoolchildren run after it and several dozen men stand gaping in the wake of its swift progress. It's the first time that Perle, a village on the banks of the Krishna river in Maharashtra state, has seen a machine used for cutting the tough cane. "This machine will harvest my entire field today,"...
More »Former Army officer wants release of Naxals stopped
—PTI Hours before the deadline set by Naxals for releasing their jailed members in exchange for an abducted MLA, a retired Army officer approached the Supreme Court on Wednesday to restrain the Odisha government from meeting the Maoists' demands. Major-General (retd.) Gangurdep Bakshi pleaded that the government be restrained from releasing the Naxals as they had been captured by security forces while putting their lives at stake. Maj.-Gen. Bakshi, an expert in counter-terrorism...
More »Villagers thrash BDO on coin hunt-Rajesh Kumar Pandey
-The Telegraph BDO Sisir Kumar Singh and Co. could never have imagined this treasure hunt to go bad. But it did. They were assaulted yesterday on their way back from Kamarchak village where they had traced about 100 antique silver coins that were recovered from a school construction SITe in neighbouring Bodaiya village, about 40km from the Dumka district headquarters. In the end they managed to salvage 23 coins, the rest were looted, allegedly...
More »Now, Trinamool red flags digital TV deadline-Mohua Chatterjee
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress appears set to open another front against the Centre - this time over the June 30 deadline for changing the delivery of cable TV to digital. West Bengal government's urban development minister Firhad Hakim claimed here on Tuesday that the deadline was fixed "without consulting states". He said the June 30 deadline would "create problems for cable operators" in the state and would mean that people would...
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