Aromatic plants perk up Leh-Ladakh farmers
MoU signed for cultivation of high-value aromatic crops like rose, marigold & mint The fragrance of the high revenue-earning aromatic plants seems to have caught the fancy of the small farmers residing in the high-altitude cold arid zones of Leh-Ladakh. Tapping in on this growing interest among farmers, Ladakh Farmers and Producers...
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In a first, ED attaches 3 chimps, 4 monkeys
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Winged guests’ early arrival leaves ecologists in tizzy
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Your stolen car may be parked on OLX for sale
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Laxmi found on Yamuna bank after 2 months
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Harsha-era Govisana Mound gets national tag
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Delhi plans e-vehicles for last-mile connectivity
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Gir pride saved from 100-feet deep plunge
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Monsoon overstays, to soak Guj, MP
The southwest monsoon is running behind its September 1 withdrawal schedule and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall in east Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in next two-three days. On Saturday, the all India rainfall stood 4 per cent above normal with only east and North-East India...
Crackdown on misleading ads featuring celebrities
Claims of many ads found unsubstantiated; ASCI orders removal of such ads from all media platforms Coming down heavily on misleading advertisements, including those featuring several celebrities, the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) has issued directions for their removal from all media platforms — print, digital, electronic and social. The misleading...
Govt plans House facelift or new Parliament building
The Narendra Modi Government will build a new Parliament complex, a new Central Secretariat for all Ministries, and redevelop the 3-km stretch from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate. The Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) Ministry said that a request for proposal (RFP) was floated on September 2 to invite...
Police lock Chandrababu at home to prevent march
TDP leaders not allowed to meet Naidu, who sat on day-long fast Tension gripped Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday as former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu and senior party leaders were placed under house arrest at Undavalli in Amaravati in a bid to stop them from...
Bihar, Guj, Odisha offer relief from MVA
Amid massive protest over the new penalties for traffic offenders, the enforcement agencies in Motihari in Bihar have started providing on the spot helmet and vehicle insurance, while Gujarat has reduced the penalty notified under the new Motor Vehicles Act and Odisha has frozen the new regulations for about three...
Shah allays N-E fears on Citizenship Bill
As Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday affirmed in the meeting of North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), an ally of National Democratic Alliance (NDA), that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) has not been consigned to oblivion and will be brought again, some of NEDA members —Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram — expressed serious...
CRPF personnel to take heart from pills order
All jawans advised to keep Sorbitrate and Disprin handy Faced with an alarming trend of casualties due to cardiac arrests, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has now decided to counter the new adversary with an advisory for keeping life savings pills handy on a 24X7 basis with each and every...
