Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that the monsoon situation was worrisome as far as the pulses were concerned. ...
01:49 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Jehanabad: Bihar is experiencing a drought-like situation with a rainfall deficit of 60 per cent. Most villages are finding it hard to even find drinking water. This, even as Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar downplayed fears of a drought on Tuesday. Its peak sowing season and Vindhyachal Mishra can do nothing but sit at home. Mishra's farmland lies barren as the dry spell in Bihar's agricultural heartland continues unabated. If...
09:56 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Sharad Pawar is at the receiving end of late Congress veteran Arjun Singh who has accused him of being flip-flop, unreliable and fickle and wondered when the "final rupture" would take place between him and the Congress. Singh's criticism and his unfavourable assessment of the NCP chief has been made in the late leader's soon-to-be released autobiography "A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time" being brought...
01:26 PM, Jul 04, 2012
A rainfall deficit of 31 per cent and a delay of two weeks has disrupted the lives of farmers and thrown agricultural activity out of gear. ...
11:10 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar met officials on Tuesday morning to take stock of the situation. ...
12:03 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday downplayed the drought dear, saying that heavy rainfall is expected from next week onwards in the country. While admitting that the deficiency of rainfall is 31 per cent upto July 2, he said, "Certain states, which are known for early sowing have been effected. Particularly Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and parts of UP and Bihar." "Nine per cent of sowing has been...
12:00 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is expected to hold a high-level meeting on Tuesday to take stock of the drought-like situation in many states. ...
09:18 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Sharad Pawar declines the Prime Minister's move to make him the chairman of the EGoM on telecom allocation. ...
10:20 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Monday quit as the head of EGoM on Telecom. Pawar said that allegations against him in the 2G case ill motivated. "I am stepping down as chairman of 2G EGoM to avoid getting dragged into unnecessary controversy over 2G spectrum allocation," Pawar said. "The Prime Minister has agreed to relieve me as chairman of EGoM on 2G," Pawar added. In February 2012, the...
07:58 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: A crucial meeting of the reconstituted Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), scheduled for Monday, has been postponed, Agriculture Minister and head of the ministerial panel Sharad Pawar said. The meeting of the EGoM, the first after Pranab Mukherjee resigned as the Finance Minister to contest Presidential election, was to decide on auction of telecom spectrum. "The meeting has been postponed because I have got some other work," Pawar...
12:49 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will head a high-powered ministerial panel tasked with the onus of deciding on auction of telecom spectrum, a top DoT official said on Friday. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has been reconstituted after Pranab Mukherjee, who was heading it, resigned as Finance Minister to contest the Presidential elections. "The EGoM will now be headed by Pawar," the official said, adding the panel may...
05:35 PM, Jun 29, 2012
BCCI continues to oppose video technology as New Zealand's Alan Isaac takes over as ICC president. ...
08:54 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Issac becomes the eighth president, while ex-SA player David Richardson succeeds Lorgat as new chief executive. ...
01:20 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Zealand's Alan Isaac will take over at the body's five-day Annual Conference starting on Sunday. ...
02:02 PM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: A divided NDA is expected to meet and take a final call on who to back in the race for the President's post. The NCP will also meet to decide on the fallout of PA Sangma's resignation while the Left will consider abstaining as an option when it meets on Thursday. The announcement of Sangma's resignation came from the new NDA entrant Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy. Sangma...
07:50 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Nagpur: Virtually putting on notice the former Lok Sabha Speaker and senior party leader PA Sangma for his insistence on contesting the Presidential poll, the Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday said the north-east leader will face action if he chose to break ranks. "We have supported Pranab Mukherjee who is the best choice for the country for the top Constitutional post. Sangma should respect the party's decision and should not...
08:25 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: PA Sangma could face disciplinary action from NCP if he ignores his party's direction to withdraw from the Presidential race and back UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee. Indications to this effect were available on Sunday with party chief Sharad Pawar saying that "we are part of the UPA. We are happy with the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee and the conduct of all party men should be consistent with the...
03:47 AM, Jun 18, 2012
A divided opposition NDA has been unable to reach a consensus on a candidate to take on the UPA's choice Pranab Mukherjee. ...
10:00 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: Sharp divisions within the NDA emerged on Sunday over the decision of supporting Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for the post of President and there was also lack of clarity on extending support to PA Sangma. The NDA spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said that they will take a final call on the issue only after having consultations with the chief ministers of the NDA ruled states. Sources said that Senior BJP...
06:59 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: The race to the post of President has never been this intense before. With the NDA yet undecided on its Presidential nominee, PA Sangma adamant that he will not opt out and Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee firm that only APJ Abdul Kalam will have her support, the whole exercise has indeed become an interesting one. The NDA called a meet on Sunday to decide on its Presidential...
03:38 PM, Jun 17, 2012
