Senior BSF officers are camping at the bordering areas to keep a watch," said ADG (East) B D Sharma.

The Centre on Monday announced setting up of a slew of new hospitals and expansion plans for several existing ones to bolster health care facility in West Bengal.

Even as Finance Minister pulls out all the stops to narrow high fiscal deficit, the subsidy bill will overshoot the target of Rs 1.79 lakh crore in this financial year due to higher crude oil prices

As the government battles to keep food inflation within manageable limits, the annual Economic Survey of the Finance ministry said that existing price support mechanism, should not be the sold tool to incentivize farming, but instead methods other ...

Expressing disappointment over growth slowing to 5% this fiscal, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said that things would look up in next financial year.

The Survey wrongly emphasises the role of tight monetary policy as the cause of a fall in consumer and investment spending

Doing away with subsidies, correcting policy imperfections

Fall in global commodity and non-food manufacturing sector prices come to help

It will prove fatal for diversification in Punjab." Shivcharan Singh Brar, a young, progressive farmer from Phullanwala...

The mango growers of Ratnagiri have reasons to cheer. Their persistent protests against thermal power plants in the region...

In the very first year of the 11th Five Year Plan, the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh has suffered a setback...

The Uttar Pradesh Government has asked the sugarcane industry to adopt agro-techniques to boost productivity.

Two waves of floods and an estimated damage of Rs 330 crore have not deterred the state from setting an ambitious agricultural production target for this season

With the Uttarakhand Government seizing the initiative in the matter, the state might well be on its way to becoming the walnut basket of India.

Just when Kashmir''s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets, recession hit and its rates tumbled, resulting in heavy losses to the growers, traders and exporters alike...

Along with experiencing a bumper wheat crop this season, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are also forced to sell their produce for as low as Rs 910 per quintal...

Soaring potato prices have returned to haunt farmers and average consumers this summer again.

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

With major parts of cane belt being located in the 47 drought-hit districts of the state, mill owners are bracing up for an acute cane shortage. Sugar price, consequently, is set to head northwards....

The sudden burst of rain across Uttar Pradesh may have brought respite from the humid weather, but for the farmers across the state this has been a double blow.

Two droughts wiping out 50 per cent of the rabi crop, the apple produce reduced to half of its usual quantity, the unusual rise in temperature...

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

Once renowned as among the best in the world, the one and a half century old Kangra tea might be on its way to a comeback if the government''s efforts bear fruit.

In spite of a bumper mango crop this year, the mango growers of the famous Maal-Malihabad belt of UP are the losers.

SC: 'Bring in more transparency, open CVC to non civil servants too''.

Group farming: Beginning with a sheep breeding project, a self-help group of 15 women at a small village in Aurangabad have expanded to grow vegetables, turmeric and ginger on around 10 acres of land.

A Rs 9.5-cr ICAR project sanctioned to SKUAST aims at reviving the lucrative industry

Experts say that even if the weather turns unfavourable, the state may lose only 1 to 1.5 per cent of the crop and still be the highest wheat producing state this year

Pearl spot fish or Karimeen, favoured by tourists and declared state fish by Kerala govtlast year, is facing extinction. Cage culture can help check the trend

Imported power tillers, mini-tractors to mechanise hill farming in Himachal Pradesh

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

To be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakh in about 2,056 square metres of land, the greenhouse is expected to be completed by July this year.

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

US-returned businessman sets up modern dairy farm, shares equipment and know-how with locals

Govt efforts get a boost with NABARD deciding to increase credit for dairy sector

Tractor sales pick up; govt promotes use of implements, launches schemes for machines on rent and at subsidy

The pomegranate, believed to have originated in Iran, has for ages thrived also in India, which accounts for half the world''s production, yet farmers'' responses have varied from state to state

And farmers still managed good prices in the beginning because of better marketing, though these eventually did drop in the glut.

With farmers reluctant to look beyond paddy, diversifying Punjab plans assured price for basmati

Himachal Pradesh is looking at the strawberry as a fancy alternative to the apple in the future.

The US dollar strengthened modestly against its major rivals in late trading on Tuesday amid the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting.

The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime.

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