GOVT WILL DOUBLE FARM INCOME BY 2022, SAYS MODI

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with farmers assembled in Krishi Vigyan Kendras in over 600 districts through video-conferencing on Wednesday. The dialogue was aimed at reaching out to rural Indians many of whom protested a crash in commodity prices. He used the Narendra Modi App to chat with select farmers, who shared their success stories and exhorted others to emulate their farm techniques and choices.he said that his government was working to fulfil its promise of doubling farm income by 2022.

Remove encroachments around Corbett in a day: HC

NAINITAL: Hearing a public interest litigation filed in 2012, the Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday directed the state government to remove the encroachments by hotel and resort owners on revenue and forest land around the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) in Nainital and

Almora districts in 24 hours. A division bench of Justices Rajiv Sharma and Lok Pal Singh directed the government to file FIRS against the encroachers as well as the state officials who were posted in these two districts during the period when encroachments came up.

Naidu asks Centre to remove limits on aircraft movement

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday requested the Centre not to impose restrictions on the movement of civilian aircraft at Visakhapatnam airport during peak flight hours to facilitate increased number of military flights since it would badly hit the economy of the port city. Naidu wrote a letter to defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, recalling a decision taken by the Indian Navy at a meeting on May 2. The decision would come into effect from November 1.

AIIMS satellite unit to be set up at Madurai village

CHENNAI: Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday announced that the much expected All India Institute of Medical Sciences’(aiims) satellite unit will be set up in Thoppur Village near Madurai. “Five spots were initially identified -Thoppur(madurai), Sengipatti (Thanjavur), Pudukkottai, Chengalpet( Kanchipuram) and Perundurai(erode). We then narrowed it down to two – Thanjavur