Shunt out Odiya, Bihari mining labourers: Goa legislator

Big industrial projects are often blamed for taking land, water and labour away from agriculture, but in Gujarat, some big industrialists have done the opposite - turned acres of barren land into mango orchards. Reliance Industries, Essar Group and ...

Impressed with the work culture and innovations at Bihar Agriculture University (BAU), Sabour, experts from Aberystwyth University, UK, have expressed the desire for student and faculty exchange programmes. C.J. Thomas, international director, ...

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The Centre has asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to show magnanimity in giving the land belonging to closed sugarmills to landless poor. Twelve out of 16 sugarmills in Bihar have downed their shutters. The Centre is also of the view that ...

Bihar is the third most populous state in India with over 100 million inhabitants. The states economy is dominated by agriculture: it constitutes 19.2 percent of states Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs nearly 75 percent of the labor force.

The Yamuna River runs through the middle of Delhi -- India's second largest metropolis and home to a population of over 18 million inhabitants. But very few of this city's residents or visitors know that along the banks of the Yamuna live thousands ...

It has made investments in downstream steel projects in India, driven by the potential of its steel market States raise tariffs, but discoms still in doldrums Subsidised power to agriculture, transmission losses and mounting debt burden weigh ...

Muzaffarpur, May 5: Not every farmer in Bihar is pinning hopes on a good monsoon. There are some, albeit small and mostly women, farmers who are assured a high yield without depending much on water, chemical fertilisers or herbicides. A new kind of ...

For a country where agriculture is seen as a ??, it is disconcerting, at first sight, to find the number of farmers registering a decline between 2001 and 2011. The fall, from 10.36 crore to 9.58 crore, is by no means dramatic. But more so, it isn't ...