Punjab farmers bring revolution with cooperative societyHOSHIARPUR - Farmers in Hoshiarpur district, who set up Farmers’ Produce Promotional Society (FAPRO) in 2001, have proved how an alert farming community can help bring about a revolution in farming. Relief efforts not sufficient for Aila victims: OxfamNEW DELHI - Oxfam, a leading humanitarian relief and development agency, has pointed out in an assessment report that the ongoing relief operations are not sufficient to meet the needs of the people affected by the Aila cyclone. Election time! Liquor makers around Lucknow get busyLUCKNOW - The general elections are not far and so households in at least 50 villages around the Uttar Pradesh capital are busy making the one thing that is in high demand by political parties and seldom fails to make voters happy - moonshine! Women devotees flood Kerala capital for festivalTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Spirals of smoke rose from hundreds of firewood stoves here Tuesday as an estimated three million women devotees from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu converged on the path to the Attukal Bhagavathi temple and cooked rice offerings for the goddess. |