-The Business Standard Market to help farmers directly reach wholesalers and retailers New delhi: Deepak Sharma, a third-generation farmer in Jammu, will no longer have to pay steep commissions when he next visits delhi to sell his produce, thanks to the new market in Alipur here. Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the Kisan Mandi in Alipur village for farmers like Sharma to sell fruit and vegetables...

-The Times of India NEW delhi: After deregulating vegetables last month, delhi government has now proposed to deregulate khoya and fodder mandis. Both wholesale markets have been suffering losses for the past several years and officials said, with rapid urbanization of delhi, there is no large-scale farming or dairy activity within the city to sustain them. The wholesale fodder market is located in Mangolpuri's Tikri Kalam area. V P Rao, special secretary...

-The Times of India NEW delhi: Faced with the scary prospect of losing lives to simple infections in the future, India is finally waking up to the dangers of reckless antibiotic use. The Indian Medical Association, a pan-India voluntary organization of doctors, will on Sunday launch a nationwide awareness programme on overuse of these live-savers, a practice that has led to emergence of drug-resistant organisms. IMA will also ask fellow practitioners to...

-Live Mint One of the Modi government's bigger initiatives will be to start implementing a three-decade-old plan to connect 30 rivers New delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to make good on his promise to tackle India's water woes. He isn't the first Indian leader to make such a vow. Indira Gandhi was among the previous prime ministers who have tried, even though she was skeptical of mega dam projects. She...

-The Indian Express Mawat (Haryana): Farmers Hatti, Ibrahim and Hurmat, of Dhana village in Haryana's Mewat district, died several years ago - the first two in 2001; Hurmat in 2006. But according to the Haryana Horticulture Department, they applied for - and received - subsidy under the National Mission on Micro Irrigation (NMMI) in 2011. "When we went to the district horticulture department office to claim subsidy in 2013, we were told...