The coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, which was hit by the cyclone Nilam on Wednesday, is slowly limping back to normal.

Coastal districts try to recover after 'Nilam'

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High moisture content has hit the procurement process for paddy crop in Punjab, with about 284,000 tonnes of the crop lying unsold in various mandis of the state as on October 31, which has put the farmers in a state of distress.

High moisture in paddy hits procurement in Punjab

Amid growing instances of unscrupulous financial establishments defalcating savings of common citizens in Odisha, the state government has decided to form a coordination committee to stem the rot.

Odisha forms panel to check financial fraud

The traditional Garba dance has gained much popularity over a period of time in the second capital of Maharashtra here, which has a sizeable mix of Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati population.

Garba gaining foothold in Nagpur

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After zeroing in on sites for establishment of two more Ultra Mega Power Plants (UMPPs) in the state, the Odisha government is keen to have a detailed assessment of private land needed and people to be displaced by these projects.

Odisha wary of private land, displacement issues of UMPPs

The Centre has decided to earmark $50 million to strengthen the institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country beside allocating an equal amount for similar purpose in developing countries in the next two years.

Centre earmarks $100 mn for biodiversity conservation

Bhopal is to switch over to water supply from the Narmada river in two days, with a long-awaited, Rs 500-crore water supply project nearing completion.

Narmada to water parched Bhopal

Though Madhya Pradesh boasts a handsome growth of 18 per cent in agriculture this year, poor access to irrigation for farmers remains a big challenge for the authorities of. Experts and insiders fear that besides warehousing issues, gradual fragmentation of land poses a major challenge for agriculture. The real estate industry and other big-ticket investors are fast consuming arable lands across the state. Pest attacks, heavy rains and inclement weather also pose problems.

MP aims for 20% agricultural growth

After his son lost in the recent Lok Sabha by-election, beleaguered Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna is likely to face fresh trouble from his opponents within the ruling Congress amid indications that the party high command is going in for a major shakeup in the state.

Fresh trouble likely for Uttarakhand CM

The Assam cabinet on Monday gave its nod to declare tea as the &lsquo;State Drink&rsquo; of Assam.

Assam cabinet's nod to tea as 'state drink' of Assam

Bihar Government is planning to offer its 7 sick sugar mills to the private sector on long term lease. If sources are to be believed, the process may begin from next month. It will be the 5th round of bidding for the closed sugar mills falling under the purview of Bihar Sugar Corporation Ltd.

Bihar govt to lease out sugar mills to private players

At a time when banks are struggling to find buyers for the loans, farmers in Chhattisgarh have defiant the practice reportedly going on across the country in the banking sector.

Banks achieve 97 % loan disbursement to farmers in  Chhattisgarh

Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday expressed hope that the issue of release of Cauvery waters to Tamil Nadu would find a natural resolution with rains becoming active in the Cauvery basin areas.

CM hopeful of nature helping to resolve Cauvery issue

The decision to award the contract has been pending since the last eight months as some ministers and senior officers said global tender was must for carrying out such major infrastructure projects.

Kerala Cabinet decides to give Kochi metro work to DMRC

Illegal mining probe agency Justice M B Shah Commission of enquiry has sought the state government&rsquo;s view on imposing a ban on export of minerals, especially iron ore.

Shah panel seeks govt view on iron ore export ban

Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Wednesday said the work on establishment of the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) would commence before the state goes for the assembly polls early next year. &ldquo;The work on ITIR project will commence before the next assembly elections,&rdquo; he told reporters here after inaugurating BangaloreIT.Biz 2012 here.

IT investment region to start soon

Consumer activists here have expressed anguish over the inordinate delay in the delivery of justice to complainants by consumer bodies constituted under the Consumer Protection Act (CPA).

Consumer activists anguish over delayed orders

Indian banker and environmental economist Pavan Sukhdev is the latest goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Sukhdev named UNEP goodwill ambassador

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Alliance, a lose network of activists and representatives of civil society organisations, has given 'Dodo Awards' to Canada and UK.

Dodo Awards for UK, Canada

Residents of Pahur, a small village with a population of about 6,000, have fond memories of the Keshavraj Maharaj (Lord Vishnu) temple, submerged following construction at the Bembla river irrigation project site in Yavatmal district. Though the temple has been rebuilt in an adjoining area, villagers say the submergence of the temple, along with that of a huge track of agricultural land, could have been averted, had the state government and the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corpo-ration (VIDC) not insisted on developing the Bembla project.

Proposed in 1992, Bembla irrigation project still incomplete

Procurement of government land by industries in Odisha is set to get dearer with the state government deciding to fix cost of such land at benchmark value, a departure from the existing system of offering government land at pre-determined rates.

Industries may have to pay more for govt land in Odisha

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