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March 4, 2010 2:13 PM

Govt says prices of major food items receding

The government has said that prices of major food items including food grains, sugar, onions and potatoes have started coming down and it is hopeful that with expectation of higher Rabi crop and easing of prices in international market, the situation will improve. Our correspondent reports that Even...

March 4, 2010 2:12 PM

Pawar hopeful of record wheat production this year

The Agriculture Minister Mr. Sharad Pawar, today expressed the hope that country will have record wheat production this year. Talking to newsmen in New Delhi on the sidelines of National Agriculture Fair which opened in New Delhi today, Mr Pawar said that prices of essential commodities will go down...

March 4, 2010 2:01 PM

PM rejects BJP's charge of US pressure on Indo-Pak talks

The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has strongly rejected the opposition allegation that India Pakistan talks were held under US pressure. Dr Singh on Wednesday intervened several times during the over an hour long speech of BJP Leader Mr L K Advani to set the record straight. He said there is no c...

March 4, 2010 2:01 PM

Government admits role of middlemen responsible for food inflation

The Government has partly blamed high cost of intermediation for the spiralling food prices. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, role of middlemen is very high from farm gate to the wholesale markets and from wholesale markets to retail markets. He was addressing an event organised by CII in the...

March 4, 2010 1:44 PM

Chidambaram cautions against incidences of enrolling in NPR

The Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram has cautioned against incidence of people from across the border trying to get themselves enrolled in the National Population Register(NPR). He said that it is a must for local level officials as well as elected representatives to be alive to this fact and act i...

March 4, 2010 1:40 PM

India to take-up the issue with UK on fee refund

New Delhi will take-up with United Kingdom any case of students not getting their entitled fee refund on courses they could not pursue because of London's decision to suspend temporarily Visa applications from three North Indian centres. Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha today, the...

March 4, 2010 1:34 PM

Inquiry ordered into Naval plane crash at Hyderabad

A Naval aircraft participating in the inaugural ceremony of an air show in Hyderabad, crashed in a residential locality on Wednesday. Both the pilots, Commander S K Maurya and Lt.Commander Rahul Nair on board, were killed in the crash. Four civilians were injured, two of them seriously. The aircraft...

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