Maha to set up panel to strictly implement beef ban law

The Maharashtra cabinet has cleared a proposal to set up a cow service commission to strictly implement a 2015 law to ban beef and take measures for the overall betterment of livestock, an official......

Will 2023 Be A Repeat Of 2015?

States have been told to prepare in advance to counter any impact of an adverse southwest monsoon. IMAGE: An elderly lady carries a filled container after collecting water from a tanker at......

Alok Ranjan appointed new UP Chief Secy

The Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday removed Chief Secretary Javed Usmani and appointed Alok Ranjan in his place.A 1978 batch IAS officer, Ranjan, who assumed office this......

Faced with brickbats, Yogi replaces Covid crisis response team

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday replaced his ‘Team-11’, a group of officials tasked with managing the crises, with a new......

Plans afoot to develop Noida-like industrial city in UP's Bundelkhand

The Uttar Pradesh government has started work on its plan to set up new industrial, residential and commercial townships in Bundelkhand to develop the sparsely-populated region synonymous with......

Impact of untimely rain on wheat crop marginal

There has not been a large impact of untimely rain and hailstorm so far in several major wheat-growing areas, and those might have damaged around 3 per cent of the standing crop -- not enough to......

Record foodgrains production likely in 2022

India achieved record foodgrains production this year but the withdrawal of three agri-reform laws and spike in cooking oil prices cast a shadow on the country's resilient agriculture sector that......

Florida keen to export agri products to India

In order to help the farmers of Florida, the Sunshine State is seemingly looking at India these days, or so it seems. In the first major step to help the state's agricultural producers to augment......

There is no question of protecting Modi: Pawar

Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi will have to face the music if he is found guilty of corruption, according to ICC President Sharad Pawar who on Sunday made it clear that there was no question......