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Articles 4221 through 4320 of 10500:
- Rs. 1,314-Crore Credit Plan For Mysore District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 25, 2006)
Agriculture segment gets the maximum share of Rs. 554.04 crores
Minor irrigation sector has been earmarked Rs. 21.34 crores
Rs.7.07 crores allocated for dairy development sector
- Disqualification Bill Passed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 25, 2006)
Chaos in the Jharkhand Assembly; four MLAs get respite
- Crushing Begins At Amaravathy Sugar Mills (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 25, 2006)
There is plenty of sugarcane available this season
Farmers keen to send their produce to the mills Lucrative rate offered
- Tdp To Scrutinise Irrigation Project Files Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 25, 2006)
Assembly adjourned abruptly after furore over the issue
- Become Financial Malls, Banks Told (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 25, 2006)
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, on Friday, said, that the committee on inclusion, set up to look into why people are not able to easily access institutional credit and financial products, would submit its report shortly
- Nabard To Give Rs. 927 Cr. As Refinance To Banks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
SHGs will be the beneficiaries
Along with this, cumulative refinance of Rs.3,092 crores has been extended to the banks
Around 2.43 crore families and 11.23 crore individuals have benefited from the SHG movement in the country
- Rs. 1.1 Cr. Sanctioned For Road Work (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
Chikmagalur will be given preference while filling up vacancies of specialist doctors
- Rich And Poor In India, China (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Mar 24, 2006)
Opposite approaches of two countries
- Foreign Miscreants Must Leave Or Face Action: Musharraf (News International, Ziaullah Niazi, Mar 24, 2006)
Shaukat says PML needs to revive spirit of early 1940s; Shujaat says president will become party member
- Indian Farmers On Strike In Israel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
Seventeen Indian farmers, led by this year's prestigious Pravasi Diwas Samman winner, Eliyahu Bezalal, are on an indefinite strike protesting against the Israeli Government's alleged insensitivity in keeping some promises made to them 10 years
- Manager Par Excellence (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 24, 2006)
Dr Varghese Kurien went to great lengths to get technical data right and found solutions, usually local and inexpensive.
- Rbi To Address Liquidity By March 31: Chidambaram (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
In a bid to deal with liqudity crunch, the Reserve Bank will take some action by this month end after consultations with the Indian Banks' Association.
- Reduced Allocation For Education In Budget Draws Flak (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
Government criticised for `neglecting' education
Government criticised for allowing private managements to introduce courses in agriculture
Legislation sought on the fee structure for professional courses and sharing of seats
- The Fable Of A Missed Moral (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Mar 24, 2006)
A farmer’s son by accident trod upon a serpent’s tail which turned and bit him and he died. So goes an ancient Aesop’s fable.
- No Power Tariff Hike In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
Electricity Regulatory Commission's order for 2006-07 issued
- Pugwash Message (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 23, 2006)
It would have been inconceivable even a year ago to think of a gathering in which politicians and academics from both sides of the Line of Control in J&K would get together to discuss ways to address aspirations of the people of the state and foster . . .
- Death Knell For Bhadra (Deccan Herald, PRAVEEN BHARGAV, Mar 23, 2006)
A relook is needed at the Upper Bhadra project which is a ‘ludicrous’ but ‘lucrative’ Rs 3000 crore project
- Rs. 3,000-Cr. Annual Credit Plan Unveiled For West Godavari District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 23, 2006)
Allocation for agriculture up by 42 p.c., housing finance by 106 p.c.
Rs. 90.5 crores to be allocated for financing self-help groups
Marketing assistance for farmers and fair deal in milk rates sought
Bankers told to bridge gap between . . .
- "Tobacco Is Not A Crop Of Future" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 23, 2006)
Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jairam Ramesh, has asked the Tobacco Board to prepare an action plan to reduce the tobacco crop size by 50 per cent in the next 10 years by encouraging farmers to try other crops like Bengal . . .
- Strategic Partnership (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Mar 23, 2006)
After the Bush visit, there are new opportunities for commercial space cooperation with the US
- Making Poverty History In Asia By 2015 (The Financial Express, SHANTAYANAN DEVARAJAN, Mar 23, 2006)
Asia is a puzzle. China, India and several other countries are enjoying rapid economic growth. Yet, some 600 million Asians—more than the entire population of Latin America—live on less than a dollar a day. But this puzzle is also an opportunity:
- Betting On Growth, Not Reforms (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Mar 23, 2006)
One would have expected the Finance Minister to press ahead with bold reform measures against the backdrop of a booming economy and healthy growth in tax revenues. Instead, he seems to be betting merely on the higher growth trajectory for achieving . . .
- The Fast Lane Is Not Just About Speed (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 23, 2006)
After announcing cheaper loans to farmers in the recent budget, the government seems intent on gently coercing banks into keeping lending rates low, to sustain the pick-up in investments.
- Call To Cull (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 22, 2006)
The West Bengal government has emerged as a bundle of contradictions in trying to wriggle out of an intricate situation following the discovery of 5,000 dead chickens in Birbhum district.
- The Milkman Goes (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2006)
Verghese Kurien first talked of retirement a quarter century ago, when he was approaching 60. His departure on Monday has therefore been long overdue, and it is sad that it should have been precipitated finally by a revolt by colleagues .
- Women In Agriculture (Daily Excelsior, Prof R D Gupta, Mar 22, 2006)
When women move forward, the family moves, the village moves and the Nation moves’’,
- India To Help Africa Fight Aids Epidemic (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2006)
India today offered to set up a pharma unit to manufacture anti-HIV/AIDS drugs in a least developed country to deal with the spread of the deadly disease in Africa, as part of its efforts to promote south-south cooperation.
- Budget Will Encourage Inspector Raj: Bjp (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2006)
The Opposition NDA today accused the Government of tinkering with excise rates which, it said, would only create more confusion and encourage Inspector Raj.
- Reliance Industries Eyes Agri-Business (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2006)
Raises mangoes and medicinal plants in refinery greenbelt
- Manthan In The Boardroom (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 22, 2006)
There is a heartfelt tragic aspect to the news of Verghese Kurien being shunted out of his decades-old position as chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF).
- Scaling Up Kurien (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 22, 2006)
One statistic captures the change brought by Dr Verghese Kurien in India’s villages.
- Rose In Wilderness (Tribune, Kamlesh Uppal , Mar 22, 2006)
Ajmer Singh Aulakh, recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademy Award for the year 2005, belongs to a small farmer family from a tiny village named Kumbarhwal in Sangrur district.
- Privatisation: Come Hell Or High Water (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Mar 22, 2006)
Converting water to a commercial good to be sold for profit invites disaster. Most of all for poor people whose already pathetic access to water will shrink swiftly.
- India Helps Set Up Bio-Resource Institute In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 22, 2006)
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has inaugurated a bio-resource institute in central Sri Lanka, started with Indian expertise.
- Ensuring Water And Food (Deccan Herald, G S Dasog, Mar 22, 2006)
The writer is coordinator, Community-based Tank Management Consultancy project, UAS, Dharwad.
- China Simply Unstoppable (Deccan Herald, K P Prabhakaran Nair, Mar 22, 2006)
India should emulate China to avoid the mismatch between foodgrain production and fertiliser use
- The End Of Farmers (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Mar 22, 2006)
The second Green Revolution will serve the interests of the American agribusiness corporations
- ‘Inter-Linking Rivers Is No Solution’ (Deccan Herald, Bala Chauhan, Mar 22, 2006)
"While multinational companies have exacerbated the water situation at the deep level, big farmers have misused water in the underground." - Water Gandhi Rajendra Singh
- An Indian Village's Statistical Lapse: Children (International Herald Tribune, Amelia Gentleman, Mar 22, 2006)
India Officially, the children of Bhaupur do not exist
- Rural Tilt, Urban Edge (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Deputy Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa seems to have got his basics right. The maiden budget of the Karnataka Development Front (KDF) Government presented by Mr Yediyurappa on Monday has a rural tilt with an urban edge.
- Farmers Can Cheer; Co-Op Loans To Be Cheaper Soon (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Raining goodies on agriculture sector, the State Budget has created a sort of record in farm credit by proposing to reduce the interest rate on farm loans being disbursed through co-operative societies....
- Power Sector Provided A Subsidy Of Rs 1,800 Crore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
The power sector has got a massive subsidy of Rs 1,800 crore in the State Budget towards power supply to irrigation pumpsets, while the overall allocation for the sector is a whopping Rs 2,373 crore. The power subsidy has been hiked by Rs 50 . . .
- Kumaraswamy Praises State Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Yediyurappa congratulated for presenting tax-free, surplus budget
- No Additional Taxes In Karnataka Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Allocations for new and innovative welfare schemes
- Powerful Cyclone Slams Into Australia (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country's eastern coast.
- Chidambaram’S Assurance To (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, today assured Parliament to contain inflation at the current level and nab the tax evaders, while restoring the excise duty exemption on bricks and handmade candles. Later, the Lok Sabha passed the Finance . . .
- Fo Asks India To Be Serious About Peace (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Rejects Narayanan’s allegations g Says US-India N-deal ‘no good’
- Surplus Budget Without Additional Taxes For State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Farm loans at lowest-ever four per cent interest; focus on urban infrastructure; allocations for several new welfare schemes
- Capital Account Convertibility Soon (Hindu, P. K. Bhardwaj , Mar 21, 2006)
RBI, Government will announce steps
Full float of rupee will facilitate conversion into foreign currency and vice versa
The move will help to attract greater investments
- Notions Of Water Scarcity (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Mar 21, 2006)
Case study exposing the social and power relations which usually underlie water crises
- Police Registers Fir Against Indian Navy (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
The Docks police have registered an FIR against the Indian Navy for killing a Pakistani fisherman.
- Violence As Iraq Enters 4th Year Of War (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
Suspected insurgents marked the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq Monday with roadside bombings that killed at least eight policemen, and authorities reported finding 15 more bullet-riddled bodies, one of them a 13-year-old girl, . . .
- Tackling Naxal Menace (Daily Excelsior, Ravindra Shukla, Mar 21, 2006)
With the Maoists threat-ening to set up a "Red Corridor" from "Pashupatinath temple in Nepal to Tirupati in south India", the Planning Commission has approved an additional Plan package of Rs 313 crore for Chhattisgarh to combat Naxalism . . .
- It'll Be Disastrous For The Economy: Cpi(m) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
"A major decision has been announced outside Parliament"
Economic activities restricted to mergers and acquisitions
"RBI being privatised surreptitiously"
- Prison With A Difference (Tribune, Upneet Lalli, Mar 20, 2006)
Recently I had an opportunity to visit prisons in Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad. I realised that prison administration that responds to challenges head on, can be changed and can contribute effectively to a better society.
- Confusion Over Bt Cotton (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 20, 2006)
Rampant sale of spurious seed
- Cabinet To Clear B'lore Metro In A Few Weeks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
The Centre will give clearance for the Bangalore metro rail project within a few weeks, Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy said on Sunday.
- Sunil Jain: Bypass For The Health Sector (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 20, 2006)
Anyone who’s met Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, if only at a public lecture, as I have, cannot but be impressed by what he’s . . .
- It Won`t Work (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 20, 2006)
With the rival fronts about to finalise allocation of constituencies to their constituents, the focus will shift to selection of candidates this week.
Some smaller parties have already done that, presuming most of the constituencies they have . . .
- For Bankable Farming (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 20, 2006)
There is a direct and positive correlation between the level of credit and farm output.
- Nuclear Deal At What Price? (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Mar 20, 2006)
The Manmohan-Bush `understanding' on implementing the July nuclear deal leaves many questions unanswered about the `hidden' costs.
- Unemployed In A Thriving Economy (Frontline, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Mar 20, 2006)
India's trajectory of growth is not matched by employment generation. This will lead to social unrest unless the government rethinks its economic priorities.
- Indian Billionaires Make Cpi-M See Red (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
The champion of the proletariat, the Left, has discovered a new whipping boy – Indian billionaires.
- Angkor Vat And Much More (Statesman, Nivedita Ganguly, Mar 20, 2006)
“Temple fatigue’’ gripped my husband and me on the third day of our tour of Angkor Vat.
- China Says Bird Flu Vaccinations Effective (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
China's bird flu vaccines are the best in the world and no healthy-looking poultry has been confirmed infected with the H5N1 strain of the disease, state media on Monday quoted the agriculture minister as saying.
- Kalam Asks Farmers To Work For Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
President A.P.J. Kalam today called upon the farmers of the country to bring about societal transformation and to work for national development by being progressive in their approach.
- Negatives That Can Slow Down China's Growth Momentum (Hindu, R. GOPALAKRISHNAN, Mar 20, 2006)
Both democracy and demographics favour India in the long run
Fifty per cent of India's population is under 20 years and people in this age group are likely to face the future with confidence.
- The New Cec’S Task (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 20, 2006)
The appointment of a Chief Election Commissioner has not drawn very positive reactions from the two mainstream parties, the PML-N and PPP. While the former regretted that the opposition had not been consulted in the choice of the CEC, the latter . . .
- Help Of Software Companies Sought To Protect Trees In Kodagu District (Hindu, P. Manoj, Mar 20, 2006)
Deforestation is affecting flows into the Cauvery
Firms will be requested to adopt trees in Kodagu villages
The Kodagu Model Forest Trust has identified villages
Financial incentives will be sought for retention of native trees
- Metro Project Will Not Be Delayed, Says Jaipal Reddy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
State has favoured standard gauge: Minister
Centre to provide all support for the project
JBIC had agreed in principle to extend a loan of Rs. 1,800 crores
- Indian Exporters In A Fix Over Eu Standards (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
Indian exporters to European Union (EU) are finding it increasingly difficult to comply with EU’s product and process standards, according to a survey....
- ‘Ban Diclofenac, Save The Vulture’ (Deccan Herald, Utpal Borpujari, Mar 20, 2006)
Three-time Green Oscar winner and internationally-acclaimed environment and wildlife film-maker Mike Pandey has been crusading for vultures — which are hurtling towards extinction
- Old And New (Deccan Herald, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Mar 20, 2006)
The general understanding of evolution presents human development as linear. The thinking goes that man evolved from an uncivilised, barbaric being and over a long period of time...
- Revisiting The Centre-State Divide (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Mar 18, 2006)
The recent India Today Conclave focused on the theme of India tomorrow:
- State In Transition (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
the government led by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda completed one year in office. In keeping with its electoral promises of solving issues such as law and order, unemployment and retrenchment of workers, one of the first things the . . .
- Population Explosion In India (Daily Excelsior, Ramesh Pandita and Meenakshi Koul, Mar 18, 2006)
In modern day world population of any country plays a pivotal role in deciding the destiny of that particular country and what a country and countrymen need is prosperity and development in order to lead a healthy and prosperous life.
- Wheat Imports (Statesman, Vandana Shiva, Mar 18, 2006)
Will India Turn To Ship-To-Mouth Existence?
- Fighting Flu (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 18, 2006)
The Maharashtra government has clearly been wise after the event. After the initial pussyfooting in the wake of the bird flu deaths, the administration has been remarkably prompt in tackling the renewed scare.
- Wal-Mart International Ceo Upbeat On India (Reuters, Emily Kaiser, Mar 18, 2006)
A top Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executive said on Friday he was encouraged by talks with unnamed "very senior" Indian government officials here as the world's biggest retailer lobbies to gain access to one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
- Ruling, Oppn Mlas Join Hands To Highlight Corruption (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
Not satisfied with, what they called, ‘casual and generalised’ reply of Abdul Aziz Zarger, all MLAs of National Conference today staged a walk-out from the Assembly when Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives was responding to the queries . . .
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