Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said there was no "misappropriation" of funds under the Rs 52,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme and sought a more comprehensive audit by CAG to get a better picture. Stating that the sample size taken for auditing was "too small", Pawar said audit of "significant" number of accounts should be done by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). ...
03:05 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Pune: A steely resolve to fight cancer ultimately saw NCP supremo Sharad Pawar emerging triumphant in his battle against the deadly disease, which had also caused turbulence in his political career. "I got cured of cancer because of a strong will to fight the disease. If I had given up the fight and stopped working, cancer would have won," Pawar said in an informal chat with reporters at the two-day...
10:56 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Odisha Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy, who has been facing controversy in Pipili rape case, has resigned on Thursday. Maharathy has been in the line of fire for the past one week following allegations that he had harboured those accused of raping and attempting to kill a 19-year-old girl at Pipili in Puri district on November 28. After increasing public and political pressure for its lapses in the alleged...
10:49 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: ICC chief Sharad Pawar has decided not to seek re-election as the president of Mumbai Cricket Association for a sixth term, Bringing curtains down on his decade-old reign as head of MCA. At a meeting with his group of supporters held at the MCA's Recreation Centre at Bandra-Kurla Complex, the Union Agriculture Minister declared his intention not to seek re-election, according to sources. "He confirmed at the meeting he's...
10:58 PM, Jul 05, 2011
Islamabad: A bomb went off outside the home of a provincial minister in a suburb of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, injuring at least four persons, including policemen, officials said. The blast occurred outside the residence of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Agriculture Minister Arbab Ayub Jan, who belongs to the ruling Awami National Party. It could not immediately be ascertained if the minister was at home at the time of the attack....
01:10 PM, May 08, 2011
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, citing high global prices, called for wheat, rice and sugar exports to resume on Wednesday to take advantage of high global prices for the commodities. Pawar's call for exports came as at least 100,000 trade unionists marched through the Indian capital on Wednesday in a protest against high food prices and unemployment. India, the world's 2nd-largest producer of wheat and rice, has kept a...
09:54 PM, Feb 23, 2011
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar says there is no need to panic. ...
08:45 AM, Jun 24, 2009
Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh has no patience with pleas and appeals. ...
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