Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government on Friday constituted an 11-member Group of Ministers to provide policy direction to the agriculture sector for the 12th Plan. The GoM will also monitor and review the performance of the agriculture sector during the 12th Plan period.
Minister for Agriculture will be chairman of the GoM that will have ministers for finance, major irrigation, horticulture, animal husbandry, co-operation, forests and environment, marketing, major industries, minor irrigation and civil supplies as members. Representatives of industry and research organisations will be special invitees to the GoM while Principal Secretary (Agriculture) will be the member-convenor, according to an order issued by Chief Secretary PK Mohanty.
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01:20 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday decided to set up a special cell at the Home Department to keep a tab on illegal transportation of minerals within the state and outside besides intensifying physical verification of different working mines. The decision was taken at a meeting of the State Level Task Force on Mines presided over by Chief Secretary BK Patnaik. "Besides home secretary, secretary of steel and mines and director...
01:15 AM, May 05, 2013
If you are a rock or an alternative lover, take this album home and enjoy to the fullest. ...
02:00 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Cuttack: The Justice PK Mohanty Commission probing the Pipli rape case has asked the Odisha government to submit its reply by the next hearing scheduled on September 7, explaining cause of delay in cremation of the victim. The state government is yet to file its counter on the controversial case after Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Ray had earlier filed his replies in a sealed cover. Meanwhile, the Commission on...
11:02 AM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Pramod Kumar, was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy to get a bribe of nearly Rs 10 crore from a private firm accused of duping general public of of Rs 829 crore. 46-year-old Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer, was arrested by the CBI in national capital from his apartment in South Delhi and produced before a judge...
08:15 PM, May 02, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: A Dalit girl who was allegedly raped in Pipli in Odisha will be shifted to AIIMS in New Delhi this week for better treatment. The girl was raped by a man in her village in November 2011. She has been in a coma ever since. Earlier in the day, the Odisha government ordered a judicial probe into the episode to identify the persons responsible for the incident. "Chief Minister...
07:44 AM, Jan 14, 2012
A teenager was killed and three people were injured after a speeding car flipped over the divider. ...
09:15 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Mumbai: On Tuesday, Mumbai woke up to news of yet another deadly road accident at the city's Peddar Road area, where a speeding Honda City flipped over the divider. A 16-year-old girl, one of the car's four occupants, was killed. The speeding car went on to crash into three other parked vehicles. The victim Shifa Sheikh was out for an ice cream with her family, her 20-year-old sister Sania is...
08:36 PM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: Uncle of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, the NSG commando killed by terrorists during the 26/11 attacks who attempted self-immolation on Thursday outside Parliament, died on Friday night. The 56-year-old K Mohanan suffered 98 percent burns when he set himself on fire. Although it was not clear why he took the drastic step, some reports say he was disturbed over his nephew's death. He was apparently also upset with the...
11:06 AM, Feb 05, 2011
