More than 12 lakh sugarcane cutters from Marathwada, north Maharashtra, and Vidarbha could miss their opportunity to vote in the upcoming state assembly elections on November 20. Photograph: ANI......
'The government is of the view that distilleries around Hapur and Bijnor would pollute groundwater in the vicinity and its spill over into the sacred Ganga. Hence, we are looking to close these......
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said he did not have any connection with Guru Commodity Services Pvt Ltd which is under the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) scanner, though a......
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday wrapped up a two-day visit to her Lok Sabha constituency by meeting people's representatives who highlighted various problems of the area and sought her......
The Congress is likely to launch an aggressive campaign from July 2 to clear misgivings about the party's presidential nominee, Pratibha Patil, accused by the Bharatiya Janata Party of financial......
Record sugar output has also yielded molasses production way beyond market demand and plant capacity of state distilleries and country made liquor units The sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh, which are......
Presently director at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s Sugarcane Breeding Centre in Coimbatore, Bakshi Ram's next target is to improve both cane yields and sucrose content......
Dalit leader Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Partyon Friday emerged victorious in the elections to the Uttar Pradesh legislative Assembly, raising the hopes of sugar mill owners and small......
Sugar is a bitter pill this election season in the country's largest state as mills are bleeding. They owe crores to cane farmers, many of whom haven't been paid for months, reports Arindam......
India’s plan to produce ethanol from second-generation (2G) sources -- mainly farm waste -- is taking time to materialise even as the government is set to dedicate to the nation on Wednesday......