New Delhi: Monsoon, the lifeline of Indian agriculture, is most likely to hit Kerala by June 5 and there is no room for concern over sowing of kharif (summer) crops like paddy and pulses, a top India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. "Most likely, the southwest monsoon will reach Kerala by June 5," IMD Director General LS Rathore said. Asked if there is a delay in monsoon onset, he said,...
08:19 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Bangalore/Raichur: Raichur in North Karnataka battled floods three years ago, but the district is still reeling under a severe drought. It's as if the Gods are mocking the farmers of Raichur district. In 2009 the farmers' homes and crops were destroyed by flooding and now three years on, a severe drought has hit the farmers hard. Gudusi Ramaiah a cotton farmer committed suicide in April this year by consuming pesticides....
06:10 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Prices of vegetables are seeing a 10 to 15 per cent rise across the country due to unseasonal rainfall across north India. In Shimla, heavy hailstorm damaged a standing apple crop and caused huge losses. Farmers in the rest of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana too are suffering from similar problems due to unexpected rainfall. State governments have assured aid and will approach the Centre for more aid. It...
10:13 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Jaipur: Terming the genetically modified crops as the "next revolution" in farming, a panel of experts on Thursday batted strongly for employing modern techniques and methods to boost farm productivity. Discussing the importance of technology in agriculture sector at a panel discussion, one of the panelist Swapan Datta said that the biotechnology can improve biodiversity and help in improving farm productivity as well. "There is no relation between biotechnology and...
05:26 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, defending his controversial decision to impose a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt Brinjal says, "On Bt Brinjal, I would not say, from my experience that foreign NGOs influenced the decision". His remarks came against the backdrop of Prime Minister's comments that some NGOs based in the United States and Scandinavian countries were not "fully appreciative" of the development challenges India faces...
04:42 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, defending his controversial decision to impose a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt Brinjal says, "On Bt Brinjal, I would not say, from my experience that foreign NGOs influenced the decision". His remarks came against the backdrop of Prime Minister's comments that some NGOs based in the United States and Scandinavian countries were not "fully appreciative" of the development challenges India faces...
04:42 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Kolkata: Expressing concern over recurring suicide of farmers in West Bengal, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said on Friday these were pointer to the "misrule" of the Trinamool Congress-led government in the state. "The TC-led government in West Bengal has perpetrated misrule and our party's central committee has expressed serious concern over farmers' suicide which rose to 24," Karat told reporters at the end of the party's 4-day central committee...
07:03 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Las Vegas: Intel plans to make its biggest marketing push since 2003 for a new, super-thin category of laptops it has dubbed "ultrabooks," hoping to fend off major strides made by Apple Inc and its MacBook Air into the high-end personal computing market. The global campaign kicks off in April and is expected to surpass Intel 2003 efforts to promote its Centrino technology for wireless connectivity in laptops. Intel spent...
02:45 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Tehran: An Iranian scientist has claimed to have built the world's tiniest microphone that could be used to build "invisible" hearing aids, the ISNA news agency reported. Bahram Azizollah Ganji of Noshirvani University in the northern city of Babol, who built the 0.5 mm X 0.5 mm microphone, said he would apply for the world record. The device could be used for medical purposes to receive the exact sound of...
01:04 PM, Dec 28, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas. The A5 processor - the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 - is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned...
01:06 PM, Dec 16, 2011
San Francisco: Oracle Corp accused Hewlett-Packard of "secretly" contracting with Intel Corp to keep Intel's Itanium microprocessor from being phased out, according to a court filing from Oracle in its long-running legal battle with HP over the Itanium platform. According to Oracle's filing, HP and Intel forged a "contractual commitment" to keep Itanium going through the next two generations of microprocessors, despite HP's previous statements that Intel's decision to keep...
01:03 PM, Nov 19, 2011
San Francisco: Advanced Micro Devices, nearing half a year without a chief executive, is launching new processors aimed at mainstream personal computers and challenging rivals Intel and Nvidia. AMD's Llano chips, which include both central and graphics processors, are aimed at mid- to high-end laptops and desktop computers. The chips, part of AMD's Fusion family, have much-improved battery life and will soon be available in laptop and desktop computers, the...
07:51 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Hyderabad: Farmers in Andhra Pradesh are battling a crisis with many resorting to distress sale of their bumper crop below the minimum support price and others threatening to go on a crop holiday. That means, they will not sow paddy this kharif season, and will work as NREGA labourers and abandon 5000 acres of fertile land. CNN-IBN highlighted the state's paddy crisis, prompting the government to appoint a team of...
09:28 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Hyderabad: Farmers in Andhra Pradesh are battling a paddy crisis. While many farmers have resorted to distress sale of their bumper crop below the Minimum Support Price (MSP), others even threatened to go on a crop holiday, which means, they will not sow paddy this kharif season, work as NREGA labourers and abandon 5000 acres of fertile land. "We are barely being able to sell our crop. What do we...
10:30 AM, Jun 09, 2011
New Delhi: India's annual monsoon rains are likely to keep their date with Kerala bringing showers to the mainland by May 31, which has raised hopes for a normal season. The weather office has forecast normal rainfall for the second consecutive year and farmers are looking forward for a steady progress of the season that could help them have a bumper crop. Director, Metrological Department B P Yadav said, "The...
12:32 PM, May 16, 2011
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