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Collective action needed to tackle price rise: Pawar

November 27, 2009 India

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Thursday called for a collective effort to tackle the issue of price rise, but there were fewer than 35 MPs present in the Lok Sabha to listen to the matter. “We have to improve agricultural production. We have to work together,” said Pawar in his reply in the Lok Sabha after [...]

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India welcomes Pak World Cup final

November 10, 2009 Cricket

Mumbai: India has welcomed Pakistan for Cricket World Cup final, even in the ongoing tension. Sharad Pawar, chairman of 2011 World Cup Organising Committee, said that despite the tension between the two nations, Pakistan would surely be welcomed in India. All depends on Pakistan’s reaching to this mega event. The final match of the 2011 [...]

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‘Time for NCP to merge with Congress’

September 30, 2009 India

A senior Congress leader here Tuesday said time had come for the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to merge with it since the reason for the formation of the NCP was no longer relevant. “The issue is no longer relevant and the existence of NCP thus has no purpose. This is the time for the NCP [...]

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Maximise food grain production in rabi season, says Pawar

September 24, 2009 India

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Thursday called for achieving higher food grain output in the rabi season “to compensate the production losses in the kharif season”. Inaugurating a two-day conference on Rabi Campaign here, Pawar said: “The early meeting on rabi campaign will give a good opportunity to plan well in advance the steps needed to [...]

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Congress should be pragmatic on Maharashtra seat sharing: Pawar

September 8, 2009 India

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar Tuesday urged the Congress to be “pragmatic” about seat sharing arrangement for Maharashtra assembly polls. “We are expecting (the) Congress party to convey their thinking…they have to take a pragmatic step,” Pawar told NDTV television channel when asked about the Congress demanding more seats this time. The Congress-NCP [...]

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Congress to demand more seats in Maharashtra this time

September 1, 2009 India

The Congress Monday said it would demand almost a dozen more seats from its coalition partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra. “After the delimitation and seeing the number of seats that we have in the Lok Sabha, we will stake claim to at least a dozen more seats from [...]

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No proposal yet from Congress on Maharashtra poll tie-up: NCP

August 29, 2009 India

With the announcement of assembly polls in Maharashtra imminent, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar Friday said he had received no proposal from the Congress on an electoral alliance. Pawar said that he had been received suggestions from some “well-wishers” (in the Congress) offering options like the two parties contesting jointly, separately, having a [...]

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Pawar lauds Jaswant Singh, Brajesh Mishra for telling ‘truth’

August 29, 2009 India

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Friday “thanked” leaders like Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha, George Fernandes and former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra for enlightening the nation on the “truth” behind the Kandahar episode involving the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. Speaking to media persons here Friday evening, Pawar said: “It cannot happen that [...]

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Congress snubs party leader for attacking Pawar

August 28, 2009 India

The Congress Thursday snubbed senior party leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi for attacking Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar over his handling of the drought situation. “Whatever the party would like to say, it would do so officially. The party advises Congressmen not to express their so-called personal views in public or through the media,” Congress general secretary Janardan [...]

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More work days under job scheme planned for drought areas: Pawar

August 27, 2009 India

To help mitigate sufferings caused by the drought, the government is mulling to provide more than 100 days of jobs assured to villagers under United Progressive Alliance’s flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Wednesday. The government “is thinking that in the districts declared by the state governments as drought-affected [...]

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