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Both opposition veterans conveyed that a contest could be avoided if a candidate of stan- ding were to be put up for Presi- dent. Their stance seems to be ba- sed on the numbers in the electo- ral college clearly favouring BJP while the leaders did not seem overly committed to opposing the ruling coalition. Pawar is, however, heading the opposition search commit- tee for a candidate. But BJP lea- ders believe he can still pitch for consensus as long the govern- ment’s nominee was able to gar- ner broad support. Naidu spoke to BSP chief Mayawati as well and the Dalit leader is understood to have said that BJP should put up a nomi- nee who can be seen to stand for the values of the Constitution and has a good record in public life. There is, however, a distinct possibility of a contest despite the government’s outreach to the opposition as Congress and Left leaders remain unconvin- ced by BJP’s arguments for a consensus. BJP ministers Rajnath Singh and Naidu who met Cong- ress chief Sonia Gandhi on Fri- day told her that the NDA candi- date will be announced prior to Modi leaving for the US. They said he (Modi) had asked them to seek suggestions of opposi- tion parties with regard to likely candidates for the post. BJP party members met CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury as well but both the Left and Congress leaders suggested the talks were not fruitful as the government had no names to of- fer. BJP members on the other hand said they were keen to he- ar the opposition’s suggestions that could be taken into conside- ration while finalising the ru- ling coalition’s choice. The BJP strategy seems to be to try and not let the election become an ‘NDA versus the Rest’ affair and it is looking to gain the support of at least some of the parties currently in the opposition camp. The saffron camp is also fair- ly certain that some parties like Congress and the Left are unlik- ely to support the NDA nominee. Sensing the government’s game-plan, sources said that the intent was to break opposition unity. The search committee set up by opposition leaders is ex- pected to meet soon but it may wait till the NDA name is out. The opposition remains wary of an NDA choice that may gain wi- der support. The discussion with Sonia, who was assisted by Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge, also saw a reference to the circumstances surrounding the election of A P J Abdul Kalam and Pratibha Pa- til as Presidents.“We were ex- pecting them to suggest a name. Then we would have discussed that within our own party and with other opposition parties,” said Azad. In Search Of Consensus Candidate Prez nominee: NDA reaches out to oppn New Delhi: Amid unrest among farmers for multiple reasons in different states, the Centre has increased the MSP of pulses, oilseeds and cotton for 2017-18 crop year and also convinced seed associations to curtail prices of hybrid seeds by 10%. The MSP of tur (arhar) was increased from Rs 5,050 per quintal (including bonus) in 2016-17 to Rs 5,450 per quin- tal (including Rs 200 bonus) in 2017-18 — a hike of Rs 400 per quintal. Similarly, the support price of Urad has risen from Rs 5,000 (including bonus) per quintal in 2016-17 to Rs 5,400 (including bonus) per quintal in 2017-18. In case of moong, it stands increased from Rs 5,225 (including bonus) per quintal in 2016-17 to Rs 5,575 (including bonus) in 2017-18. Among oilseeds, the gov- ernment has increased the MSP of groundnut-in-shell (Rs 4,450 per quintal), soya- bean (Rs 3,050 per quintal), sunflower seed (Rs 4,100 per quintal), sesamum (Rs 5,300 per quintal) and nigerseed (Rs 4,050 per quintal). TNN Centre hikes MSP for pulses, oilseeds, cotton Mumbai: Weeks after pitching for RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Shiv Sena has now suggested agriculture scientist Dr M S Swaminathan as the NDA candidate for the presidential election. The move is being read within the BJP as another attempt by an intractable ally to confuse the NDA camp at a time when efforts are being made to forge a consensus on the name. Uddhav Thackeray will discuss the issue with BJP national chief Amit Shah when the latter calls on him, Sena MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut said on Friday. Shah, who is on a three-day visit to Mumbai to review party matters, is slated to visit the Thackeray residence on Sunday. The meeting is mainly intended to pacify the Sena in the run-up to the presidential election for which the BJP needs its ally’s votes. “Actually, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is the Sena’s first choice for president post. However, in case this doesn’t happen, we would back Dr Swaminathan for the top post. The Sena chief will discuss the issue with Shah during their talks,” said Raut. TNN Sena now wants Swaminathan as Prez TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: While recent devel- opments like the US abandoning the Paris accord have caused a major setback to the fight against the devastating impact of cli- mate change, scientists are warning that time is running out. Communities around the world are experiencing climate change through extreme weath- er events. The least that can be done is to ensure that businesses, communities and individuals act in whatever way possible. 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In Hoshangabad’s Rendhal village, farm labourer Babulal Verma set himself on fire and has sustained 60% burns. TNN Farmer kills self, another battles 60% burns TIMES NEWS NETWORK
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New Delhi:The NDA was hope-ful of enlarging support for itspresidential nominee with sec-tions of the opposition like Sam-ajwadi Party and NCP indica-ting that a “credible candidate”who is not a saffron hard-linercould be acceptable as the nextoccupant of Rashtrapati Bha-van.
The NDA candidate, whowill be announced before PMNarendra Modi departs for theUS on June 24, is likely to be anexperienced politician with par-liamentary experience, politicalsources indicated. The possibili-ty of a non-political person asnominee is being ruled out.
Urban development mini-ster Venkaiah Naidu who inter-acted with several opposition le-aders is understood to have rece-ived a “positive” response fromSP chief Mulayam Singh andNCP leader Sharad Pawar.
Both opposition veteransconveyed that a contest could beavoided if a candidate of stan-ding were to be put up for Presi-dent.
Their stance seems to be ba-sed on the numbers in the electo-ral college clearly favouring BJPwhile the leaders did not seemoverly committed to opposingthe ruling coalition.
Pawar is, however, headingthe opposition search commit-tee for a candidate. But BJP lea-ders believe he can still pitch forconsensus as long the govern-ment’s nominee was able to gar-ner broad support.
Naidu spoke to BSP chiefMayawati as well and the Dalitleader is understood to have said
that BJP should put up a nomi-nee who can be seen to stand forthe values of the Constitutionand has a good record in publiclife.
There is, however, a distinctpossibility of a contest despitethe government’s outreach tothe opposition as Congress andLeft leaders remain unconvin-ced by BJP’s arguments for aconsensus.
BJP ministers RajnathSingh and Naidu who met Cong-ress chief Sonia Gandhi on Fri-day told her that the NDA candi-date will be announced prior toModi leaving for the US. Theysaid he (Modi) had asked themto seek suggestions of opposi-tion parties with regard to likelycandidates for the post.
BJP party members metCPM general secretary SitaramYechury as well but both the Leftand Congress leaders suggestedthe talks were not fruitful as thegovernment had no names to of-fer. BJP members on the otherhand said they were keen to he-ar the opposition’s suggestionsthat could be taken into conside-ration while finalising the ru-ling coalition’s choice.
The BJP strategy seems tobe to try and not let the electionbecome an ‘NDA versus theRest’ affair and it is looking togain the support of at least someof the parties currently in theopposition camp.
The saffron camp is also fair-ly certain that some parties likeCongress and the Left are unlik-ely to support the NDA nominee.
Sensing the government’sgame-plan, sources said that theintent was to break oppositionunity. The search committee setup by opposition leaders is ex-pected to meet soon but it maywait till the NDA name is out.The opposition remains wary ofan NDA choice that may gain wi-der support.
The discussion with Sonia,who was assisted by Congressleaders Ghulam Nabi Azad andMallikarjun Kharge, also saw areference to the circumstancessurrounding the election of A PJAbdul Kalam and Pratibha Pa-til as Presidents.“We were ex-pecting them to suggest a name.Then we would have discussedthat within our own party andwith other opposition parties,”said Azad.
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Prez nominee: NDAreaches out to oppn
New Delhi: Amid unrestamong farmers for multiplereasons in different states, theCentre has increased the MSPof pulses, oilseeds and cottonfor 2017-18 crop year and alsoconvinced seed associations tocurtail prices of hybrid seedsby 10%.
The MSP of tur (arhar)was increased from Rs 5,050per quintal (including bonus)in 2016-17 to Rs 5,450 per quin-tal (including Rs 200 bonus) in2017-18 — a hike of Rs 400 perquintal. Similarly, the supportprice of Urad has risen from
Rs 5,000 (including bonus) perquintal in 2016-17 to Rs 5,400(including bonus) per quintalin 2017-18. In case of moong, itstands increased from Rs 5,225(including bonus) per quintalin 2016-17 to Rs 5,575 (includingbonus) in 2017-18.
Among oilseeds, the gov-ernment has increased theMSP of groundnut-in-shell(Rs 4,450 per quintal), soya-bean (Rs 3,050 per quintal),sunflower seed (Rs 4,100 perquintal), sesamum (Rs 5,300per quintal) and nigerseed (Rs4,050 per quintal). TNN
Centre hikes MSP forpulses, oilseeds, cotton
Mumbai: Weeks after pitching for RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat inRashtrapati Bhavan, the Shiv Sena has now suggested agriculturescientist Dr M S Swaminathan as the NDA candidate for the
presidential election. The move is being readwithin the BJP as another attempt by anintractable ally to confuse the NDA camp at a timewhen efforts are being made to forge a consensuson the name. Uddhav Thackeray will discuss theissue with BJP national chief Amit Shah when thelatter calls on him, Sena MP and spokesperson
Sanjay Raut said on Friday. Shah, who is on athree-day visit to Mumbai to review party matters, is slated tovisit the Thackeray residence on Sunday. The meeting is mainlyintended to pacify the Sena in the run-up to the presidentialelection for which the BJP needs its ally’s votes. “Actually, RSSchief Mohan Bhagwat is the Sena’s first choice for president post.However, in case this doesn’t happen, we would back DrSwaminathan for the top post. The Sena chief will discuss theissue with Shah during their talks,” said Raut. TNN
Sena now wants Swaminathan as Prez
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New Delhi: While recent devel-opments like the US abandoningthe Paris accord have caused amajor setback to the fight againstthe devastating impact of cli-mate change, scientists arewarning that time is runningout. Communities around theworld are experiencing climatechange through extreme weath-er events. The least that can bedone is to ensure that businesses,communities and individuals actin whatever way possible. TheJSW-The Times of India 8th edi-tion of Earth Care Awards (ECA)is calling on organisations, in-dustries and individuals to applyfor ECA awards by August 4, 2017.
The Intergovernmental Pan-el on Climate Change (IPCC’s)fifth assessment report had high-lighted that India’s agriculturesector will face the maximum im-pact of climate change. The re-port had also suggested that In-dia will face an increase in bothmean and extreme rainfall inmonsoon, floods and droughtsare likely to increase and temper-ature variations could make dis-ease outbreaks more frequent. Infact the World Meteorological Or-ganisation (WMO) recently said,“It is very likely that the numberof cold days and nights has de-creased and the number ofwarm days and nights has in-creased on the global scale. In
large parts of Europe, Asia andAustralia, it is likely that the fre-quency of heat waves has in-creased.” This is why this timeECA is emphasizing on climatechange mitigation and adapta-tion across sectors.
The awards will be in fourcategories: Community basedmitigation and adaptation inwater resources, agriculture,forestry and other land use, In-novations for climate protec-tion, GHG Mitigation in largeenterprises and Leadership inUrban Climate Action.
The Earth Care Awards(ECAs) were launched in 2007-08 and are jointly sponsored byJSW and The Times of India.The ECA aims to address miti-gation and adaptation com-plexities at a larger level, andfrom 2012 the awards startedreaching out to the SAARC re-gion. Centre for EnvironmentEducation (CEE) has been theknowledge partner. The proc-ess is supported with a well-de-fined technical and methodo-logical framework for assess-ment of GHG mitigation andadaptation parameters to de-fine the evaluation process.
CEE assists the Earth CareJury in determining the crite-ria and evaluating the propos-als through desk based reviewand field verification. From2012, TERRE Policy Centre hasalso joined the ECA group as
an outreach partner. For the 8thedition of the awards there is aneminent jury including RAMashelkar, president, Interna-tional Research Alliance; Karti-keya V Sarabhai, founder direc-tor, CEE; Rajendra Shende,chairperson, Terre; Aneeta Ben-ninger, executive director,CDSA; Rajat Gupta, director,McKinsey; Chandra Bhushan,deputy director general, Centrefor Science and Environment(CSE) and Suhas Wani, director,ICRISAT Development Centre.
The ECA award includes a ci-tation and a trophy. In the “com-munity” and “innovation” cate-gories, recipients of the awardsare also given cash rewards, as de-cided by the jury. Those interestedin applying can get more informa-tion at www.earthcareaward-s.com and download the ECAguidebook from the website. ECAis also on twitter @EarthCareA-wards.
Last year the Cochin Interna-tional Airport and the Panaji CityCorporation had won under“Leadership in urban climate ac-tion” category, Saguna RuralFoundation had won under “In-novations for climate protection,”Nature Environment & WildlifeSociety (NEWS) and Bangladesh-based PracticalAction had wonunder “Community based miti-gation and adaptation in water re-source, agriculture, forestry andother land use” category.
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Bhopal: A 23-year-old farmer fromSehore has killed himself, taking thenumber of kisan deaths in MP to 10in just seven days, even as anotherdebt-ridden farmer attemptedsuicide earlier on Friday. Four of the10 farmers who committed suicideare from CM Shivraj SinghChouhan’s constituency, Sehore.Mukesh, who got married just threemonths back, took poison onThursday evening. In Hoshangabad’sRendhal village, farm labourerBabulal Verma set himself on fireand has sustained 60% burns. TNN
Farmer kills self, anotherbattles 60% burns
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