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Kharif crop sowing exceeds 1088 lakh hectares, rice dominates planting
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare released the latest figures, showcasing the planting status of various crops for the current Kharif season, alongside comparisons to the previous year.
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Hectic schedule for PM Modi in the next 3 days leading up to G20 Summit
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
On September 8, PM Modi will hold important bilateral meetings with three countries, including with US President Joe Biden, the sources said.
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'Great People’s Forest' – Reforestation drive to plant 1 billion trees in
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
By 2030, they seek to plant upwards of 1 billion trees and restore and protect 1 million hectares of land across the Eastern Himalayas, from the mountains to the mangrove spanning across the northeastern part of India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal through community participation.
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BJP questions Opposition's unity ahead of formal meeting of INDIA bloc
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Top leaders of the opposition bloc INDIA began hectic parleys in an informal meeting here on Thursday evening to chart out a concrete roadmap to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
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Paddy planting continues to lead India's Kharif crops sowing
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Commodity-wise, paddy sowing is at 384.05 lakh hectares, as against 367.83 lakh hectares same period last year.
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Ecuadorians vote to ban oil drilling in Amazon
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Yasuní National Park park spans around 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) at the meeting point of the Amazon, the Andes and the Equator. Just one hectare of Yasuní land supposedly contains more animal species than the whole of Europe and more tree species than exist
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"Asian Games is our priority in September": Indian football team head coac
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Up against a heavyweight side like Iraq in the first game, it will be a challenge unlike any other the Blue Tigers have faced in 2023. However, head coach Igor Stimac's biggest centre of attention in a hectic month of football is the Asian Games in China, beginning nine days after India's tr
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Assam: 'Aaranyak' takes up elephant habitat improvement to mitigate human-
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has initiated an ambitious project for improvement of elephant habitat in Assam's Rowta Reserve Forest to mitigate Human Elephant Conflict (HEC).
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Preparing to abandon two airbases critical to counterterrorism efforts: US
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Hecker, on Friday, called the planning for a possible evacuation from the two bases prudent and precautionary, adding that his teams have considered scenarios in which they are called upon to evacuate civilians and even the US Embassy under duress.
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Paddy planting leads overall 2023 kharif crops sowing in India
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Farmers in India have sown kharif crops across 1022.51 lakh hectares so far this year, as against 1021.48 lakh hectares in the same period of last year, according to the latest data from the Agriculture Ministry.
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Outgoing Pakistan government overlooks 41 bureaucrats eligible for promoti
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
However, the establishment division was apparently not prepared to complete the hectic exercise, which officials said ordinarily takes months to plan, and hence could not complete the paperwork in time, the Dawn reported.
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India’s kharif crop planting area rises; paddy leading year-on-year
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Commodity-wise, paddy sowing is at 328.22 lakh hectares, as against 312.80 lakh hectares same period last year. Notably, India in July amended the rice export norms by putting non-basmati white rice, a major export item, in the "prohibited" category.
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