The government has come in for severe criticism from the Lok Sabha Estimates Committee for its poor management of drought and food grain production.

Tabling the report in the Lok Sabha, the committee lambasted the functioning of various government departments for its poor functioning and asked the ministry of agriculture to immediately set up a new division to analyze future requirements of the country and to initiate measures to augment the production of food grains and traditional crops.
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Keeping up with crude oil is a bit of a migraine these days.
It’s an essential task, of course. Gasoline, diesel and kerosene play a double-faced role in our modern world. When we are ahead of the curve, they grease the wheels of the grand machine, allowing people and goods to freely seek their best markets.
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For those of us "skeptics" and "deniers" who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, "See, it's the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?" The truth about some of the scientists behind the global warming hoax has finally arrived.
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Have we hit the peak of world Gold Mining production already, and more importantly, if we have, would it make any difference to the gold price?

Probably not, reckons Tom Winmill, portfolio manager of the Midas Fund (MIDSX) since 2002. His fund has gained 82% so far this year, but he's more bullish on platinum than gold – and silver, as he tells Hard Assets Investor below – may be set for a spiky correction...
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The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers rarely come forward to advance their careers), a slow-burning thermonuclear explosion on future global oil production. The Bush administration’s actions in pressuring the IEA to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves have the potential to t… Continue