Encouraging farmers to make use of subsidy

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January 22, 2009

Encouraging farmers to make use of subsidy=

N= AMAKKAL: The Agricultural Engineering Department in Namakkal district has called upon the farmers to avail themselves of the subsidy provided by the Government to mechanise agricul= tural operations.

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Karunanidhi to lay stone = for river interlinking project

C= HENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foun= dation stone on February 9 for the Rs.369-crore project to interlink the Tamirabarani river with the Karu= meniyar and Nambiar, Governor Surj= it Singh Barnala told the Assembly on Wednesday. <= o:p>

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Over 4,500 farmers arrested for trying to tap toddy

Coimbatore: Nearly 4,500 farmers were arrested in Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Salem and Krishnagiri on Wednesday for trying to tap = toddy in protest against the Government ban on toddy tapping.

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Call for creating safe work environment

HYDERABAD: Labou= r Minister G. Vinod on Wednesday appealed to the industry to give utmost importance to making society stress-free by establishing better sharing and participatory management practices.

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Karnataka government faces flak for giving ‘clean chit’ to mining firm

B= ELGAUM: The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka came under heavy criticism in the Legislative Assem= bly and Council from the Opposition benches, led by the Congress, for its alleg= ed attempt to deflect the findings of Lokayukta N.= Santosh Hegde’s rep= ort on illegal mining in Bellary by the surreptitious preparation of another report, this time by the Forest Department, on encro= achments by mining companies.

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Farmers to take oath to shun chemical farming

BANGALORE: This Republic Day will see= 20,000 farmers from different districts of the State gathering in front of Vidhana Soudha to take an= oath not to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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Farmers seek compensation

H= ASSAN: Vehicular traffic came to a standstill for more than one hour on National Highway 63 near Shettihalli in Chennarayapatna taluk on Wednesday as farmers staged a “<= span class=3DSpellE>rasta roko” near th= e dairy building demanding government jobs for one person from each land loser’s famil= y

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Clarion call against fossil fuels

T= HIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A three-day workshop on the implications of global warming for Kerala, organised by the = State Forest Department with the cooperation of several agencies, has recommended that each government department consider it important to include in its pol= icy

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International

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Scientists solve enigma of Antarctic 'cooling'

R= esearch 'kills off' climate sceptic argument by showing average temperature across the continent has risen over the last 50 years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/21/global-warming-= antarctica

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