Farmers forum petitions PM on Norman Borlaug stamp

October 8th, 2009 Senate sends agriculture spending bill to ObamaWASHINGTON — Dairy farmers suffering from low milk prices would benefit from $350 million in emergency funding approved by the Senate on Thursday as it cleared a $121 billion agriculture spending bill for President Barack Obama's signature. The bill also delivers a record $58.2 billion for the food stamp program, which when combined with benefit increases passed under Obama's stimulus bill earlier in the year would mean a 19 percent increase in food stamp spending above current levels.

October 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Once coveted by Indian techies, more than one fourth of the H-1B visas for skilled professionals are yet to be grabbed, with the US job market still to pick up as it recovers from its deepest recession in decades. By Sep 25 only about 46,700 of the H-1B visas in the general category were filled up against a Congressional mandated cap of 65,000, according to the latest update by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

September 15th, 2009 Senators call for more support to dairy farmersWASHINGTON — Flanked by a cow named Maggie — and six of his Senate colleagues — Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling for the House to pass an amendment increasing price supports to dairy farmers.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Monday condoled the passing away of Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming the death of agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug as the end of an era, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday described him as one with a towering intellect who helped millions of people escape from a life of hunger and deprivation. With the passing away of Norman Borlaug an era has ended, in which he spearheaded a scientific revolution in agriculture, the prime minister said in a message.

September 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Sunday mourned the death of eminent American agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, who helped pioneer the Green Revolution in India.

September 13th, 2009 Borlaug, who saved millions from hunger, diesDALLAS — Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation. Borlaug, 95, died Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home, said Kathleen Phillips, a spokesman for Texas A&M University where Borlaug was a distinguished professor.

September 12th, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95DALLAS — Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95. Borlaug died Saturday night at his home in Dallas from complications of cancer, school spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips said.

September 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A bank manager was held captive for nearly 12 hours in his office by farmers in an Uttar Pradesh village for allegedly demanding a bribe to issue their Kisan Credit Card (KCC), police said Wednesday. Angry farmers in Barsera village in Bareilly district Tuesday barged inside the office of a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch manager.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A rare Chinese 19th century stamp, valued at around 258,000 dollars, is expected to set the record at a philatelic auction in Hong Kong next month. The auction will feature offerings from several Asian countries, and more than 1500 lots of rare and fine Chinese and other Asian stamps with an estimated value of over 1.55 million dollars will go under the hammer.

July 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday said farmers need financial security to prevent them committing suicide as has been happening in India, and stop them from drifting away from agriculture, like in the US. "Yeah, it (farmers' suicides) is a great concern.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Scamster Abdul Karim Telgi and nine others were Thursday convicted in yet another multi-million rupee fake stamp paper case by a court here. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Bansal pronounced the conviction.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Scamster Abdul Karim Telgi and nine others were Thursday convicted in yet another Rs.212 crore fake stamp paper case by a court here. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Bansal held Telgi guilty after he deposed before the court via teleconferencing from a jail in Bangalore.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court granted bail to four aides of Abdul Karim Telgi, the prime accused in the Rs.30 billion fake stamp paper scam. Justice S. Muralidhar granted bail to Mohammad Asif, Mansoor Ahmed, Mohammed Ajimullah and M.A.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday slapped a Rs.150,000 fine on a former councillor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for filing frivolous petitions alleging misuse of funds in road construction. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S.