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Ludhiana, Mar 20(ANI): While declining water table in Punjab is causing worries to farmers and environmentalists, it has also become a major profit making opportunity for companies that manufacture submersible pumps.
Punjab is dependent on the monsoons for irrigation, but facing constantly lowering water table, submersible pumps are increasingly being used for agriculture. Their demand is [...]

Lahore, Mar. 8 (ANI): Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has said India has imposed war on Pakistan by constructing illegal dams and diverting water of Pakistani rivers, and Islamabad should be ready to counter this hostility.
Addressing JuD’s protest rally against theft of Pakistani waters by India, the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks said that [...]

Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu), Sep 9 (ANI): All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to Tamil Nadu, visited Thanjavur on Wednesday and held meetings with Youth Congress activists and farmers.

Gandhi was welcomed by thousand [...]

Jaipur, July 4 (ANI): Chomu, a small town near Jaipur, is emerging as favourite hub for the purchase of agriculture equipments and machines.

In spite of being surrounded by non-fertile land, people in this region are economically self-sufficient because of their technical capabilities.

The agricultral machinery business in the town has flourished a lot due to [...]

New Delhi, July 2 (ANI): RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday called upon the government to make the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition public at the earliest.

“The report is already delayed. It should be tabled in the present [...]

Multan, June 20 (ANI): United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Project Director, Shafqat Niaz Kang, has said, that Pakistan is facing a severe water shortage, and is fast moving from being a water-stressed country to a water-scarce country, mainly due to its high population growth.

Kang expressed his views at a one-day training workshop of the [...]

Christopher Columbus’s landmark journey to discover a shorter and more profitable trade route to India was sponsored by Queen Isabella of Spain. Columbus got his calculations wrong, but five centuries later Spain and India pledged to replicate his enterprising spirit to double trade and investment between them.
“We have had very good political relations and #8230; [...]

Klang (Malaysia), Apr.27 (ANI): Malay Indians are generally unaware of economic opportunities made available to them by the government, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department T. Murugiah has claimed.

He said many did not know they could take loans from the government to start their own businesses or get involved in the agriculture sector.

“Because [...]

Dhaka – Bangladesh on Sunday announced an economic stimulus package worth over 500 million US dollars to offset the fallout of global economic meltdown, officials said.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith announced the package amounting to Tk 3,424 crore (500 million US dollars) for the fourth quarter of the current fiscal to increase subsidies in power [...]

MUMBAI: The Nationalist Congress Party’s election manifesto talks about amending the Constitution to ensure a fixed-term parliament to avoid
mid-term polls.
NCP president Sharad Pawar said that the atmosphere this year is much better for the Centre’s UPA government than the last Lok Sabha polls in 2004 as the country has made progress in various sectors. [...]

Hyderabad, Apr 2 (ANI): Telugu Desam Party chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday released his party’s manifesto for the upcoming general elections.

The manifesto has promised to implement a slew of measures [...]

Hyderabad, Mar. 14 (ANI): The Bhartiya Janata Party manifesto for Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, which will be released today, has specific schemes for newborn girl child, welfare of farmers and senior citizens.

Under BJP’s “Adabidda Andalam” scheme, Rs. 21,016 would be [...]

Hyderabad, Mar. 10 (ANI): The Bhartiya Janata Party manifesto for Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, which will be released on March 14, has specific schemes for newborn girl child, welfare of farmers and senior citizens.

Under BJP’s the ‘Adabidda Andalam’ scheme, Rs. 21,016 would be deposited for every girl born [...]

New Delhi, Feb 27 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that information technology has to play a major role in the expansion of agriculture in the country.

Addressing the national seminar on Agriculture Extension here, Pawar said information technology is a critical component for [...]

New Delhi, Feb 23 (ANI): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today asked agricultural scientists to evolve technologies that result in higher incomes for farmers without harming the country’s natural resources.

Addressing farmers and agricultural scientists after inaugurating the Pusa Krishi Vigyan Mela (agriculture fair) at IARI, Pusa, Pawar said: “Agricultural scientists must also see that the [...]

New Delhi, Feb 4 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today urged the agricultural scientists to introduce innovative technologies.

Speaking at a function on World Congress on Agriculture Conservation here, Pawar said that the slowdown in agriculture sector adversely affected the farmers in all countries, more in poverty ridden countries. However its impact in India [...]