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New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, today launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with a clarion call to industry to create 'Solar Valleys' on the lines of Silicon Valleys that are spurring the Indian IT industry across India.

New Delhi: As per the data maintained by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 5166 fruits and vegetables processing units were licensed under Fruit Products Order (FPO),1955 in the country as on 01.01.2009.

The level of processing of fruits & vegetables in the country is estimated at only 2.20%. The low level of fruit and vegetable processing is due to non-availability of processable varieties of raw materials at right quantity and quality, seasonable nature of industry, lack of adequate post-harvest infrastructure such as lack of cold chain facilities, transportation, proper storage facilities etc.

Things have again started happening on the Kashmir front as indicated by the last week's three developments. The first was the attempts by Pakistan to infuse new life into the dying militancy in Jammu and Kashmir through fidayeen attacks.

LUCKNOW: Is the Samajwadi Party heading for a split after Amar Singh quit as general secretary of the party following differences with the powerful cousin of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ram Gopal Yadav?

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has begun implementing sweeping new changes to the way it does business to improve the quality and responsiveness of its work.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has implemented improvements to internal rules protecting those who report integrity violations or misconduct in ADB or in ADB-related activities.

The farm sector of the Indian economy is in crisis. The UPA Government has admitted, albeit reluctantly, that the crisis is linked to the economic reform process launched two decades ago when Mr. Manmohan Singh was the finance minister in the Narasimha Rao-led Congress minority government.

For the Congress and the BJP, 2010 is the year of organisational elections. While the process is yet to begin in Congress, the party is faced with a strong demand for introducing the 'Rahul model' to usher in genuine democracy in the party. In pre-Indira era, elections in Congress were a lively event with every leader trying to establish his or her clout. Narasimha Rao had in 1992 completed the process up to the CWC but it was, by and large, through an imposed consensus from primary level to PCCs.

Politics has won over Punjab's already crippled economy. This is evident from Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy Chief Minister son Sukhbir Singh Badal succumbing to the BJP's pressure to partially roll back enhanced power tariff for the domestic, industrial and commercial sectors after a week long attrition games the two alliance partners played in Delhi.