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India has risen like a phoenix in the world economy. Fifty years ago it was not able to feed herself and was begging for food with the US. Today it stands tall and is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Its GDP is growing at 9% per...
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Not many years ago, the BJP government in Delhi lost the elections because of rising onion prices. The party never managed to come back to power since then. The onion...
made popular Dec 22 2010
What an irony it is. For the last several years, it was the scarcity of rain that had driven the farmers to suicide in Maharashtra. But this year, it is the excess...
made popular Sep 13 2010
For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case involving genetically modified crops. The crops’ safety is not at issue in this...
made popular Apr 28 2010
Hoima District is said to have the biggest forest cover in the country but most of the forests are also home to hundreds of chimpanzees and baboons. This does not make...
made popular Apr 29 2010
The Generation - X of our country which is uber cool, trendy, smart, intelligent. Who wear their jeans below their waistlines, sagging them. Who speak in a lingo which...
made popular Apr 12 2010
“A good budget “this is the statement of our honorable Prim Minster Manmohan Singh, including the industrialist like Adi Godrej (Chair man of Godrej...
made popular Mar 3 2010
At least 30 people have been killed in clashes between herders and farmers in Nigeria’s central Nasarawa State, witnesses say.
Local people have described armed...
made popular Dec 23 2009
During five year drought in Bundelkhand, nearly fifty percent of its total population had migrated to metro cities like Delhi & Mumbai. In search of their...
made popular Sep 12 2009
Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even...
made popular Aug 28 2009
This morning I received an article written by a member of Zimbabwe’s ‘inclusive government’ in which he discusses the cost of the land grab in Zimbabwe – and...
made popular Apr 28 2009
Yesterday workers at the Pak ‘n Save supermarket on Lincoln Road in Auckland held a picket as part of their campaign to get an improved employment agreement. The site...
made popular Dec 2 2008
It is said that bad coin & lousy politicians seldom go out of circulation. After a brief festival reprieve Bengal is ready to face the body line bouncers from...
made popular Oct 30 2008
For 200 years, descendants of slaves have preserved a distinctive way of life in this village near the Amazon jungle. Amid the stone ruins of plantations, they farmed...
made popular Oct 11 2008
Who says that farmers are boring and dull people he is in wrong . These sculptures are a proof that they like to have fun too in a creative way they awesome arts you...
made popular Oct 8 2008
A group of community farmers, some of them Amish, are challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are a
made popular Sep 12 2008
A few weeks ago, Obama made a comment about the price of arugula at the Whole Foods Market to a group of farmers in Independence, Iowa. Yes, I said Iowa. How dare...
made popular Aug 8 2008
The tragedies in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri have been terrible to watch on the news. I watched in horror, as towns and homes were flooded to almost the top of the...
made popular Jun 23 2008
Jeet Mal Patidar had a good harvest this year – over a thousand quintals of wheat. But he is in no hurry to sell his produce and instead of being carted to the mandi,...
made popular Apr 23 2008
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CHANDIGARH: As hard rains lashed Paramjit Singh’s flattened fields in Nauli, Jalandhar, he squatted in the middle of a heap of ravaged wheat with both hands clutching...
made popular Apr 7 2008
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar have proudly said on number of occasions that India is all...
made popular Feb 13 2008
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John W. Boyd, Jr., from Baskerville, Va., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, speaks during a rally rally in front of the United States Department of Agriculture with his mule in the foreground in Washington Tuesday, April...
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