Monsoon woes continue in Uttar Pradesh
Madna (Uttar Pradesh), July 4 (ANI): Delay in Monsoon in Uttar Pradesh, is upsetting villagers and farmers of Madna village, as they are going through a tough time as the fields in the region have almost dried up.
Harvesting was supposed to start by June 15 but with the delay in [...]
Chomu emerges as favourite shopping hub for agricultural equipments
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 [...]
Peter Andre wants a ‘quickie divorce’ from Jordan
London, May 25 (ANI): Oz musician Peter Andre has revealed that he wants a “quickie divorce” from his estranged wife Jordan, despite the latter’s constant pleas to reconcile.
Though Jordan begged Peter to reconcile and bombarded him with text messages and phone calls on her 31sr birthday, her efforts have gone in vain because peter is [...]
To protest Chinese rule Tibetan farmers refuse to sow spring crops
London, Apr 11 (ANI): Tibetan farmers discontented with the Chinese rule have refused to sow their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing.
Chinese officials are so anxious at the latest action of farmers that they have sent in troops from the People’s Liberation Army to work with them or in their place if [...]
When foes turned friends
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) They fought the 2004 Lok Sabha elections against each other. But now they are campaigning together for the 2009 polls.
Surjit Singh Salathia of the National Conference and Madan Lal Sharma of the Congress slugged it out in the last polls for the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary constituency. Sharma emerged victorious.
But in a [...]
Pharmaceutical experts selling English Channel water as blocked nose remedy in US
London, March 9 (ANI): Pharmaceutical experts are selling water from the murky English Channel to Americans as a blocked nose remedy.
Drugs company Shering-Plough claims that its Afrin PureSea Hydrating Nasal Rinse is “the only nasal rinse product made of 100 per cent purified seawater.”
The water is sourced from one of the world’s busiest shipping [...]
Robert Burns is first non-Royal to be honoured with three collections of stamps
London, Jan 19 (ANI): Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns has become the first non-Royal to be honoured with three collections of stamps.
Burns, whose new edition of stamps will be unveiled by the Royal Mail this week, has outdone even wartime leader Winston Churchill, who got just two editions, and William Shakespeare and Charles [...]



