Committee formed to provide more accurate data on agriculture

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station (CRS) at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV), Raipur The Community Radio Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of CRS will increase to 54 in the country.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ministry of Textiles and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will jointly organise a workshop on use of textiles in agriculture here tomorrow. Over 100 delegates from various sectors like agriculture, the State Governments, agricultural universities, forest departments and institutes will attend the workshop.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ministry of Textiles and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will jointly organise a workshop on use of textiles in agriculture here today. Over 100 delegates from various sectors like agriculture, the State Governments, agricultural universities, forest departments and institutes will attend the workshop.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday assured Kerala that interests of the state farmers will be taken care of after chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan expressed fears that a trade agreement with ASEAN nations would affect the state's agriculture.

July 20th, 2009 Netgear routers to measure Internet consumptionNEW YORK — How many gigabytes do you consume per month? Not many households can answer that question. That complicates the efforts of Internet service providers to get their subscribers to stay below a certain amount of data.

July 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday said the US and India will explore new areas of cooperation in agriculture which she described as one of the five pillars of their strategic partnership. Agriculture is one of our five pillars of discussions.

July 12th, 2009 JANGIPUR - The central govenment has formed a committee to prepare a roadmap for merging the wholesale price index and the consumer price index, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday. "A committee has been formed under the Central Statistical Organisation which is studying the trends in the wholesale price index and consumer price index and how soon both can be converged," Mukherjee told reporters, responding to a query on the prices continuing their upward trend despite an unprecedented dip in the inflation rate.

July 4th, 2009 JAIPUR - Chomu, a small town near Jaipur, is emerging as favourite hub for the purchase of agriculture equipments and machines. In spite of being surrounded by non-fertile land, people in this region are economically self-sufficient because of their technical capabilities.

June 24th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Farmers in Orissa have been told to go for short and medium duration paddy crops in upland non-irrigated areas this kharif season as there was a delay in the arrival of the monsoon, officials said Wednesday. Orissa is one of the major rice-growing states in India, with about four million hectares under paddy cultivation.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Saying the government was committed to improve education standards in India, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said Wednesday a new apex panel on higher education will be formed soon. The National Commission for Higher Education and Research, which will encompass in itself the existing professional councils and regulatory agencies, including the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Medical Council of India and the AICTE, is likely to be formed within the first 100 days of the new government, Sibal told reporters.

June 19th, 2009 Lawmakers criticize UK government for Iceland spatLONDON — An influential committee of cross-party lawmakers criticized the British government on Friday for its handling of the Icelandic banking crisis, when the Treasury froze assets using anti-terrorist law, prompting a diplomatic spat between the two countries. London infuriated Reyjkavik last year when it used the anti-terrorist legislation to freeze U.K.

February 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A monitoring committee set up by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) Friday emphasised the need of meticulous planning for relocation of villages from core critical areas in the country's 37 tiger reserves. The three member monitoring committee, formed in September 2008 to oversee village relocation and eco-tourism strategy in Project Tiger reserves across the country, held discussions in the capital with the chief wildlife wardens of several states and heads of various tiger reserves.

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming it as a 'very unfortunate' incident, the National Commission of Women (NCW) Tuesday formed a committee to probe the assault on some young women by members of a self styled moral brigade in a pub in Mangalore last week. 'The commission is aghast at the kind of behaviour of the so called moral police with the young women in Mangalore.

January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gearing up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Congress Saturday almost finalised its election manifesto, with a focus on agriculture, financial reforms, youth and unemployment. The manifesto committee of the party met in the capital to give a final shape to the policy paper, which has been sent to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for approval.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Canada for increased cooperation in the field of agriculture, the Canadian High Commission here said in a statement Monday. The bilateral MoU aims to enhance knowledge sharing, animal development and agricultural marketing know-how between the two nations and to increase the bilateral exports between the two nations.