The tower has a prayer room, a library, a guest house and a charitable dispensary located on its premises.

The report, however, has no mention of the investigation by the West Bengal Police.

The Economic Survey today suggested the government reprioritise Plan and Non-Plan expenditure in its efforts to contain fiscal deficit at manageable levels.

As the country faces the prospect of being saddled with record almost 100 million tonnes of foodgrains in the next few months, the government's annual Economic Survey released today said that urgent attention needs to be accorded to efficient food ...

Delays in environment clearances needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis for achieving coal production target of 795 MT during the current five year plan (2012-17), the Economic Survey said today.

India's tourism sector needs an urgent image makeover with higher investment in infrastructure, through PPP mode to capitalise on opportunities provided overall growth in world tourist arrivals, the Economic Survey said today.

Amid declining private investment due to high interest rates and policy bottlenecks, India Inc saw sales growth dip by more than half to an average of 11.4% during the second quarter of the current fiscal.

Despite a challenging macro-economic environment, the benchmark S&P Sensex gained about 10 per cent this financial year due to robust foreign inflows, which were largely aided by bold policy measures like fuel price decontrol and FDI in the ...

Demographic dividend can slip away

The mutual fund industry has registered an increase of 29.4 per cent in the market value of its assets under management (AUM) during the first three quarters of the current financial year. According to the Economic Survey, the market value of the ...

Fall in global commodity and non-food manufacturing sector prices come to help

Jayant Ghosh refuses to step into stereotypes. He is a farmer who struts about in Wrangler jeans and Reid and Tailor shirts...

By pushing up its wheat stock, the state has added to India''s increased food production.

This May-end, around 270 pomegranate farmers from Atpadi will be the first graduates of the Sheti Shalas...

A vegetable vendor with an IIM degree under his belt - that''s 26-year-old Kaushalendra Prasad of Bihar who would rather...

While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...

While farmers are selling potatoes for as low as Rs 1-1.50 per kilo to the middlemen, consumers are shelling out Rs 7-10 in the retail market.

This tiny pest was ravaging mint crops until one day scientists found out how to deal with it.

Despite an annual turnover of more than Rs 2,000 crore, Himachal Pradesh''s apple orchards have witnessed a decline in the yield.

Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving...

The current spell of rainfall and snow in the upper and middle hills of Himachal Pradesh may translate into some respite for farmers and orchardists...

Even though the weather and soil conditions here can seldom be compared, the yield seems to have transcended those boundaries.

While a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot.

A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was...

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful "invasive weeds" which made their...

While the government is looking to offset the losses in Kharif production on account of the drought with an increase in productivity levels and area...

When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn''t go near his children and wife until he had bathed and changed his clothes.

Patiasa village in Muzaffarpur district is a hive of activity where Anita Kumari keeps as busy as a bee as she spearheads a revolution of sorts.

The honeybee population in Himachal Pradesh has come down drastically, thanks to a mite called varroa....

For long, the mulberry silk produced in Jammu-Kashmir Valley was taken to faraway Western countries. As years passed by, silk looms here stopped spinning as fast...

In the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh

Once renowned as among the best in the world, the one and a half century old Kangra tea might be on its way to a comeback if the government''s efforts bear fruit.

Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s, biodynamic farming...

Demand of flowers in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the price of Himachal apples in Delhi markets, a new subsidy scheme for polyhouses, or new varieties of maize developed at a research centre....

It has already helped grow cereals and fodder in the desertland of Qatar, mangrove species along the highly saline Gujarat coastline, and a wide variety of plantation crops on wastelands covered with fly ash....

For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

A team from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), the country''s premier forest research organisation, will soon travel to Cambodia, to save one of the major attractions of that country.

Rain is something tribals living in the cold deserts of Spiti Himachal''s fascinating mountainous region have seldom experienced.

Forget the French wine, you can soon have a taste of our very own Punjabi wine.

Ganesh Jadhav, like many other farmers at Vavna and Sonari villages in drought-prone Marathwada''s Phulambri tehsil.

With the help of technology and a Taiwanese variety of seed, Punjab''s maiden attempt at commercial cultivation of papaya is bearing fruit.

At Kharar in Punjab, a hi-tech greenhouse covering an acre has the capacity to produce up to 35 lakh whole-root seedlings of fruits and vegetables. An Israeli agriculture specialist and a Delhi-based entrepreneur are behind it

BAMU in Aurangabad would have notched a top slot.

The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

Gold medalist sets up farmers'' club in Muzaffarpur, motivates villagers to cultivate land they had left untouched for fear of Maoists.

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a 'corridor'' for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

In a year''s time, summer moong''s acreage has risen to one lakh hectares

Five years ago, the AP court had ordered a cut in prices of cottonseeds from Rs 1,600 to Rs 650 per bag. Other states had followed suit

As Nitish takes a tough stand against MNCs planning to sell Bt maize after selling hybrid corn seeds, farmers of Bihar''s Kosi region are a confused lot