New Delhi: Punjab on Monday demanded that the Centre should double the amount of compensation given under State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) for crop damaged beyond 50 per cent. The present limit of the compensation is Rs 6,000 per hectare. Keeping in view the rising input costs in agriculture and its vulnerability to adverse climatic challenges it becomes imperative to double the compensation amount immediately, Punjab's Revenue & Rehabilitation Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said at the two-day 'National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction' at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.
He also advocated for a comprehensive techno-legal regime to limit the ill-effects of disasters through formation of effective policies, guidelines and by-laws and their strict enforcement by relevant state departments, local bodies, agencies and private establishments. Various states put forth their demands and suggestions to deal with disasters in the meeting held under chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Majithia lamented that the union government did not grant a single penny to state against a demand of Rs 5,112 crore as drought compensation.
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03:15 AM, May 14, 2013
Hyderabad: The unseasonal rains that lashed Andhra Pradesh over the last four days have claimed 25 lives and damaged crops over 70,000 hectares, officials said on Wednesday. The deaths, almost all due to thunderbolts, were reported from 11 districts. Guntur accounted for seven deaths; four people died in Nellore, three in Prakasam, two each in Warangal, Krishna and East Godavari and one each in West Godavari, Khammam, Adilabad, Visakhapatnam and...
04:58 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Lahore: Former premier Nawaz Sharif had a narrow escape when his chartered aircraft made an emergency landing in this eastern Pakistani city on Friday after one of its windows developed a crack. The PML-N chief was flying from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, to Hasilpur district in Punjab, 400 km from Lahore, when the Challenger aircraft's window was damaged. A total of 11 people were on board the aircraft,...
01:27 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Bangalore: The bomb blast near the state BJP city office that left at least 16 people injured indicated the hand of terrorists and state police has set up a special team to investigate the attack, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said on Wednesday. "By tomorrow or day after, details will be known about the incident and appropriate action will be taken in this regard," he told reporters after visiting the...
01:21 AM, Apr 18, 2013
A blast near the BJP office in Malleshwaram in Bangalore on Wednesday left 16 people injured including eight policemen. The explosion reportedly took place near a temple just metres away from the BJP headquarters. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 17, 2013
3:40 pm: The Home Ministry confirms that the Bangalore blast was a terror attack. 2:39 pm: 11 policemen have been injured in the Bangalore blast, say sources. 2:30 pm: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde says, "Have constituted an enquiry into the Bangalore blast under the Special Secretary of Home department. I will have interaction with the Karnataka government and the police." 2:16 pm: Mumbai put on high alert after Bangalore...
12:48 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Bangalore: A blast near the BJP office in Malleshwaram in Bangalore on Wednesday left 16 people injured including eight policemen. The explosion reportedly took place near a temple just metres away from the BJP headquarters. Bangalore Police said that several cars have been damaged in the low intensity blast including a police vehicle. The police added that the cause of the blast in not known yet. The blast comes weeks...
11:08 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Heavy coffee consumption may protect against liver damage in men who drink alcohol, a new study has claimed. Researchers asked nearly 19,000 Finnish men and women between ages 25 and 74 about their coffee and alcohol consumption. ...
04:45 PM, Mar 24, 2013
A plan to seize up to 10 per cent of savings accounts in Cyprus to help pay for a (EURO)15.8 billion ($20.4 billion) financial bailout was met with fury on Monday, and the government shut down banks until later this week while lawmakers wrangled over how to keep the island nation from bankruptcy. ...
06:35 AM, Mar 19, 2013
John Flannery tells Forbes India the environment for some of GE India's businesses has deteriorated, and government statements is yet to translate into activity. ...
04:05 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Mobile handset maker Nokia India announced insurance scheme against mobile handset theft and accidental damage, in partnership with insurance firm New India Assurance. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Intensifying the legal battle over the Cauvery river waters issue, Tamil Nadu Government on Monday decided to move the Supreme Court seeking damages from Karnataka for the loss of crops caused by the neighbouring state's "adamant approach" on release of water. Initiating yet another litigation on the bitter decades-old Cauvery row between the two riparian states, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa ordered officials to file a suit in the apex court claiming...
04:14 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Australia's Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers sought to widen its legal battle against Lanco Infratech over a stalled coal-to-urea project by launching a A$3.5 billion damage claim against ICICI Bank, the lender to Lanco's Griffin Coal unit. Perdaman filed its application in federal court in Perth, Australia, on January 2, the company said in an email on January 10. ...
10:19 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Both high and low levels of physical activities can speed up damage to the knee cartilage among the middle-aged, says a new study. ...
02:35 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New York: Here is a look at how the behemoth storm Sandy affected the nation's largest city and its suburbs. A day after the storm hit, New Yorkers were coping with flooding in some areas, digging out from the mucky leftovers of receding waters in others and bracing for days without power. Wall Street: With power out to more than 750,000 New Yorkers, much of the nation's financial capital was...
03:21 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Chennai: A Jeddah-bound Air India flight carrying over 400 passengers was cancelled after it suffered damage when a vehicle hit it. The incident occurred this morning when a tractor carrying passengers' luggage hit the aeroplane on its side, following which the flight was cancelled, airport sources said. The passengers, most of them Haj pilgrims, would be flown to their onward destination in a separate flight later in the day, they...
10:54 AM, Oct 08, 2012
London: New research has found mobile phones can damage personal relationships merely with their presence no matter they are being used or not. According to psychologists who conducted the experiments at Essex University, mobile phones automatically trigger thoughts about wider social networks, reducing the level of empathy and understanding in face-to-face conversations, Daily Mail reported. The two studies found if a mobile was visible during a conversation it caused people...
11:07 AM, Oct 07, 2012
Vadodara: Over 3,000 quintals of wheat worth over Rs 3.5 crore was damaged due to rains over the last two days as local officials had failed to make proper storage arrangements, BJP MP Balkrishna Shukla said on Sunday. "Food Corporation of India and Central Warehousing Corporation had kept 3,000 quintals of wheat in the open at the premises of FCI and CWC and Vadodara railway station. It was damaged due...
10:14 PM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India has started assessing the damage at its Manesar plant, which was partially burnt down after violence erupted last week killing one of its senior officials and injured 100 others. The company also said it is still apprehensive of the safety of its people as the main culprits are yet to be arrested. "Maruti Suzuki has started assessing the extent of damage at its Manesar plant....
05:46 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: What do you expect an airlines priority to be after discovering that one of its recent flights experienced turbulence, leading to damage to the plane and injuries to passengers, and that the pilot allegedly did not inform the company or aviation regulator and instead ordered crewmembers to stay mum? Find out who leaked the information to the media. After MiD DAYs expos on July 24 (Maharaja of cover-ups), national...
02:03 PM, Jul 25, 2012
