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Gupta and Sattar, epitome of communal harmony in Ahmedabad
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Feb 16 (ANI): Even as instances of communal violence crop up from time to time, a Hindu and a Muslim man jointly running a shop in Ahmedabad proves that the spirit of inter-faith harmony remains alive.
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Loss of crops in hailstorm will be compensated: Chouhan
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India] Feb. 12 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said the loss of crops in hailstorm will be compensated.
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NTPC invites bids for Agro Residue based fuel as part of environment frien
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 8 (ANI): India's biggest power producer NTPC on Thursday opened bids for procuring 1,000 metric tonnes per day of agro residue based fuel for its 2,650 MW Dadri power plant in the National Capital Region as part of initiatives to help clean air and provide farmers with
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Telangana CM for big push to crop production
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said that the district ministers should initiate measures to form farmers coordination committees to take responsibly of marketing the crops and getting minimum support price (MSP) on it.
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Budget '18: Swaminathan hails MSP hike
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 2 (ANI): Agriculture expert and former Rajya Sabha member M.S. Swaminathan has welcomed the Union Budget announcement to keep the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all unannounced Kharif crops at least at one and a half times of the production cost.
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UP govt taking measures to solve farmers' issues
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 26 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the state government is taking various measures to tackle the farmers' problems in order to provide them a good price for their crops.
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JNU professor comes up with solution to stubble burning
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 15 (ANI): With crop residue burning in northwest India contributing to a quarter of Delhi's air pollution during winter, a professor from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has claimed to have developed a solution to the problem.
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Palaniswami urges K'taka CM to release Cauvery water for TN
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan 13 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palaniswami on Saturday requested his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah to release water from River Cauvery to save the standing crops of farmers in the former's state.
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Horticulture crop production witnesses record-high of 300.6 million tonnes
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 2 (ANI): The production of horticulture crops was reported to be a record-high of 300.6 million tonnes in 2016-17, which is five per cent higher than the previous year, the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation, and Farmers Welfare reported on Tuesday.
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ICRA: Cotton spinners eye recovery from six-year lows
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 29 (ANI): Domestic spinners are likely to witness a gradual recovery in performance from Q4 FY 2018 onwards owing to hopes of healthy cotton crop and demand restoration.
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Rebound in SDL issuance in Q4 to widen spread relative to G-Sec yields: IC
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 20 (ANI): Credit rating agency ICRA expects the pace of issuance of state development loans (SDL) to rebound in Q4 of FY2018, after a fresh borrowing limit set by the government, led by back-ended redemption of market borrowings and possible funding of a portion of the
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Birlasoft's Shodhan 2017-18 contributes to improving air quality in Delhi
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 20 (ANI-NewsVoir): Birlasoft, part of the CK Birla Group, has contributed to solving the air quality crisis in Delhi NCR through its CSR project Shodhan 2017-18. Shodhan, which means purification in Hindi, is an attempt to arrest the pollution caused by crop burning in
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