Government not to shift 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste Bhopal Oversight Committee to study restoration of plant Facing strong protests from local people and activists, the government has finally decided not to move 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal to an incinerator in Pithampur. The decision was taken at a Thursday meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) dealing with the Bhopal gas leak disaster...
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CACP backs subsidy tool for hybrid rice use by Sanjeeb Mukherjee
The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), the government's main advisory body on pricing policy for farm produce, has favoured a subsidy mechanism to encourage use of hybrid rice varieties. The commission's views are likely to be a part of the recommendations it plans to send to the government on pricing of farm produce. "China has gone ahead in hybrid rice and around 63 per cent of its total area is...
More »CBI men back on fodder dirt trail by Suman K Shrivastava
A Jharkhand High Court whip, issued to the CBI two months back, has put fodder scam cases against former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra on the fast track. The CBI, which has been handling as many as 53 fodder scam cases for one and half decades, is now under pressure to complete investigations in the 15 pending cases, of which five involve the two former chief ministers and...
More »DMK's free lunches turn costly by N Madhavan
Eighty labourers, both men and women, are at work at Thiruvanduthurai village in Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu, about 325 km south of Chennai. They are digging a pond - about an acre wide and six feet deep - funded under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or MGNREGS. Outside the work perimeter, two middle aged men look on, worried. P. Murugan and K. Govindaraj are farmers from the...
More »India estimated to see 5.4% growth in farm sector in FY11
India is expected to witness 5.4 per cent growth in the farm sector in the current fiscal 2010-11 as indicated by substantial expansion in area and production of major crops in both Kharif and Rabi seasons, official sources said today. "In the first half of 2010-11, farm sector has achieved growth of 3.8 per cent, rebounding from -0.1 per cent and 0.4 per cent in the previous two years," an official...
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