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Amid concerns over paddy sowing in the ongoing kharif season due to poor rains in key growing states, the Union Agriculture Ministry has stopped releasing the weekly update of total area sown to paddy. Not only paddy, the weekly sowing…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the plea of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and the state government against the Jharkhand High Courtorder which had accepted the maintainability of PIL in…

The Enforcement Directorate Wednesday said it has seized a Rs 30-crore vessel, operated at the behest of a man linked to an arrested aide of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, allegedly used to transport illegally mined stone chips…

The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Thursday two separate pleas of the Jharkhand government and Chief Minister Hemant Soren against a high court order that had accepted the maintainability of a PIL for a probe against the JMM leader into…

Farm gate chicken prices have crashed between a quarter and a half in different states in the last fortnight. The fall has been the sharpest in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, where the ex-farm rates are down from ₹115/kg to ₹60/kg in…

The monsoon, which accounts for about 75% of India's annual rainfall, is the lifeblood of its nearly $3 trillion agriculture-dependent economy. Asia's third-largest economy and the world's top producer of a host of critical crops such as…

Scanty showers continue to worry farmers of Jharkhand as the monsoon rain deficit climbed to 49 per cent on Monday, the highest in the country after UP, a weather official said. Seven states are facing rainfall deficit in the country…

Droupadi Murmu on Monday was sworn in as the 15th President of India. The National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) presidential candidate Murmu was officially declared as India's President after the conclusion of the counting of votes on…

RAIRANGPUR/RANCHI: Of all the qualities of head and heart that paved the path for Droupadi Murmu’s ascent to the country’s highest office, spirituality has been her closest ally, strengthening her fortitude in the face of back-to-back…

UPARBEDA (MAYURBHANJ): Uparbeda, the tribal village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district where NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmuwas born, is in celebration mode and counting the hours when the result of the presidential election would…