"Effort to prevent fragmentation of land"
BANGALORE: The Agriculture Ministry's focus is on impressing on farmers the need to look at allied activities if not other avocations. In other words, the effort is to wean people away from agriculture and thus prevent fragmentation of farmland. ...
Jnanpith is for the Kashmiri language: Rahi
SRINAGAR: The announcement that Kashmiri poet Rehman Rahi has been chosen for the Jnanpith Award for 2004 has sent a wave of jubilation among the people of the State. Since Friday, the poet himself has been flooded with congratulatory ...
CPI (M) MP relives glory in races
NEW DELHI: Taking time off political activities, parliamentarians participated in a sports meet organised by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs on Saturday. Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP from West Bengal and ...
PM discusses J&K political situation
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday held a high-level meeting here chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the political situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the backdrop of its strained relationship with its coalition partner, People's ...