-Livemint.com Pulses have been sown in an area of 9 million hectares, substantially higher than the 6.5 million hectares planted by this time last year New Delhi: Bountiful rains across the country have boosted sowing of pulses and the area under different varieties is nearly 40% more than last year, shows data released by the agriculture ministry on Friday. So far pulses have been sown in an area of 9 million hectares,...
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The abandoned villages of Bundelkhand -Nikita Mehta
-Livemint.com Tiliya, one of many villages in Bundelkhand region, has been emptied of its young people as they have migrated to the cities to find work, usually menial jobs Jhansi/ New Delhi: Adjacent to the Pahuj river, surrounded by small rocky hills in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh lies Tiliya, a village of 42 households. Most villagers are farmers but, strangely, almost all the farmers are elderly. They put it down to ‘Palaayaan’...
More »Select Committee on anti-graft amendment Bill gets extension
-PTI A Rajya Sabha Select Committee examining an anti-corruption Amendment bill was on Friday granted extension till the next session of Parliament, to submit its recommendations. The term of the Committee, which was to submit its report on the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2013 during the current session, was extended till the Winter Session. BJP’s Bhupender Yadav moved a motion in Rajya Sabha for extending the time for presentation of the report...
More »A forest drought no one is talking about -Purshottam Singh Thakur, Ajit Panda & Anupam Chakravartty
-Down to Earth Severe dry spells in Indian forests have hit the livelihood of more than 100 million people. But India simply does not acknowledge this drought For more than five months, residents of Jabarra village have been foraging the forests for minor forest produce (MFP). The forest in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari district is abundant with more than 200 types of forest produce and the district is known as Asia’s biggest trading...
More »Reservoir water levels rise above 10-year average with good Monsoon rain
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Water levels in 91 major reservoirs in India rose 20 per cent in the past week, boosted by good Monsoon rains in most parts of the country. The water available in the reservoirs was 54.419 billion cubic metres as of Thursday, compared with 59.10 bcm at the same time last year. The levels were above the 10-year average of 52.050 bcm, according to data from the Central...
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