While deficient rainfall has affected standing crops, it is also likely to cause a fall in foodgrain production in all the seven taluks of Mysore district. Maize, hybrid maize, sesame, paddy, sunflower, pulses and tobacco crops sown this monsoon, the crop season is already hit due to the poor rainfall.

Poor rains leave Mysore farmers in limbo

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Narendra Modi government's ambitious plan to create a global financial hub near state capital, Gandhinagar, will get a step closer to reality.

Two towers of GIFT City to open from Sept

After a month long strike across textiles mills in June, both Ahmedabad Textile Mills Association (ATMA) and Textile Labour Association (TLA) have ended negotiations amicably and agreed upon productivity-based wage hikes.

ATMA, TLA agree on conditional wage hike

Maharashtra BJP on Wednesday demanded a Rs 10,000 crore package for the drought-hit region in the state.

Maha BJP demands Rs 10k cr package for drought-hit region

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Hearing a petition alleging siphoning of Rs 600 crore by Board of Directors in Pen Urban Cooperative Bank in Raigad district, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday restrained owners of 39 properties held in benami names from selling or creating third party rights.

HC restrains sale of benami property in Rs 600 cr scam

An undertrial has moved the Bombay High Court urging for a direction to the concerned authorities to set up adequate number of special courts to hear cases filed under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in Thane, Navi Mumbai, Raigad and Ratnagiri districts. The petitioner, Lakhan Naik, contended that there was only one MCOCA court in nearby Thane which was also hearing cases from other districts such as Ratnagiri, Navi Mumbai and Raigad. As a result, the cases had piled up in the court. If each of these districts has separate special MCOCA court, then the cases would be heard by them respectively and would not pile up in the Thane court. This will ensure speedy disposal of the cases the petition, filed through jail, contended. The petition argued that state government had not constituted the review committee to look into the cases filed against accused.

Undertrial urges HC to set up more MCOCA courts

Odisha is set to voice its opposition to some of the contentious provisions in the Mines and Minerals (Development &amp; Regulation) Bill-2011 that the state government feels may undermine the federal structure of the constitution.

Odisha to oppose MMDR Bill at Standing Committee meet

Odisha has emerged as the fifth leading state to facilitate growth in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), generating over 21,000 jobs in the sector between April 2011 and February 2012, according to Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham). West Bengal has topped the list followed by Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. &ldquo;Over 0.32 milllion jobs were generated in the SME sector across India,&rdquo; said D S Rawat, national secretary general of Assocham.

State among top five in SME job creation

The Spices Board has invited applications from unemployed educated youth belonging to agricultural families to work as agricultural resource persons in spices production. The board has called for applications from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for the ninth batch. Under the programme, good agricultural practices will be covered. Applications should reach: The Director (Research), Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board, Myladumpara, Kailasanadu PO Idukki district, Kerala, 685 553, by August 15, a release said.

Spices Board to train youth

The Kerala police on Wednesday arrested P Jayarajan, a senior CPI(M) leader and district secretary of the Kannur unit of the party, for his alleged involvement in a criminal conspiracy of the murder of Abdul Shukoor, an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) activist.

CPI(M) leader arrested

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Union Rural Development Minister Jayram Ramesh on Thursday reached Gujarat as part of their visit four monsoon-deficient States to assess the impact of deficient rainfall and water scarcity situation.

Pawar, Ramesh in Gujarat to assess rain deficit situation

To ensure there is no shortage of manpower for implementation of drought mitigation programmes, the Maharashtra government will hire retired officials on contract basis at the district level for a period of one year.

Maha to hire ex-officials for drought mitigation prog

The government on Thursday directed the Karnataka government to submit a revised report on the severe drought prevailing across the state and funds required from the Centre to take up additional relief works.

Centre directs state to submit revised report on drought

Chief secretary and principal secretary to chief minister along with sports secretary Ajay Kumar Singh took off to London on July 25 to catch Olympics live on a 10-day &ldquo;exposure trip&rdquo; with sports minister Sudesh Mahto and hockey player Asunta Lakra.

JMM supremo asks CM to call back two bureaucrats from Olympics

The inauguration of the integrated check post (ICP) at the Attari border, Amritsar (Punjab), to facilitate trade between India and Pakistan on April 13, 2012 has started showing outstanding results. In the first quarter of the current financial year, imports grew by 106 per cent while exports witnessed an increase of 39 per cent over the corresponding period last year.

Indo-Pak trade through Attari border grows in Q1

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha made a clean sweep of all 45 seats in the newly-formed Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. Twenty-eight seats were won uncontested by the GJM after the two major political forces - the Trinamool Congress and the CPI-M - withdrew from the contest.

GJM makes clean sweep in GTA poll, swearing-in on Aug 4

Anational biodiversity museum will be set up by the Union government in Hyderabad at a cost of Rs 100 crore.

Biodiversity museum to come up in Hyd

The Madras High Court has appointed an administrator replacing the board of directors of TTK-LIG Ltd, a joint venture between the TTK Group and UK-based New Bridge Holdings BV, a step-down subsidiary of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc.

HC appoints administrator to head TTK-LIG

The Indo-Swiss Free Trade Agreement is expected to be in place within the current financial year, the Swiss Ambassador to India Linus von Castelmur said today.

Indo-Swiss FTA likely to be signed 

With two deadlines missed, work on the new integrated terminal of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport was on in full swing and was expected to be completed on September 30, Airport Advisory Committee Chairman Saugata Roy said on Friday.

New integrated terminal to be completed soon

Union Minister of Shipping G K Vasan today launched the&nbsp;National Automatic Identification System Network (NAIS), which will&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;the country's coastal security by tracking ships up to&nbsp;a distance of 50 km from the coast.

New tracking system for ships launched

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