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Shift in Crop Pattern, Re-sowing Result in Urea Scarcity

The New Indian Express Mysuru

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August 04, 2025

WHAT has caused the shortage of urea? While the blame-game goes on between the State and Central governments over shortage of fertilizers, there are a host of factors at play.

- ASHWINI M SRIPAD @Bengaluru

To begin with, there is excessive use of fertilizers due to a sudden shift in crop pattern, and re-sowing necessitated by heavy rains.

Then there is the increase in horticulture crops, in turn spiking the demand for urea and other fertilizers. Experts say there is a need to spread awareness about excessive use of fertilizers. Karnataka needs 4 lakh tonnes of DAP for the ongoing kharif season, and over 2 lakh tonnes for rabi. The Centre supplies DAP to states based on their average use for the last three years. The DAP quantity to be supplied for the kharif season is allocated in January, and for rabi in July.

By March 2025, there was 3.6 lakh MT of urea in stock in Karnataka. The State government had requested 6.4 lakh MT of urea, of which the Centre had allotted 5.1 lakh. With earlier stock and this, there was 8.7 lakh MT of urea available in the state. The Centre is yet to supply 1.3 lakh MT.

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The New Indian Express Mysuru

Two dons-turned-politicians draw battle lines on Mokama poll turf

BATTLE lines have been drawn in Bihar’s Mokama assembly constituency ahead of the first-phase polls on November 6, as two don-turned-politicians, Anant Singh and Surajbhan Singh, prepare for a high-octane electoral clash.

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2 mins

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

10 months on, NMC yet to act against 30 docs for 'sponsored' foreign trips

THE National Medical Commission (NMC) is yet to take any action against 30 doctors who accepted free trips to Monaco and Paris worth ₹1.91 crore last year, despite the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) recommendations that action should be taken against them for violating professional misconduct.

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1 mins

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

WASTE LAND: A NATION OF LANDFILLS

SOME years ago, I was editing a newspaper in Mumbai and we ran a report on the city’s eternal garbage problem.

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3 mins

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

Paraglider from Canada found dead, Australian rescued in HP

A 27-year-old Canadian paraglider, Megan Elizabeth, was found dead after going missing from the high mountains of the Dhauladhar range, while a 47year-old Australian paraglider, Jacob, was rescued in the last 48 hours.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

EC: Print ads a day before or poll date need pre-certification

AHEAD of assembly polls in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued an order saying to ensure a fair campaign environment, no party, candidate, organisation or person shall publish any advertisement in print media on poll day and one day prior to the poll day, unless the contents are pre-certified by the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

The New Indian Express Mysuru

7 Punjab youths duped in Kazakhstan, appeal for help

SEVEN young men from Punjab’s Ropar district are stranded in Kazakhstan after a local travel agent allegedly duped them by promising high-paying jobs as drivers.

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1 mins

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

PK SAYS BJP FORCING HIS CANDIDATES TO OPT OUT OF CONTEST

JAN Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on BJP alleging that three of his party candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections withdrew their nominations under “pressure” from the ruling party.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

Winter blackouts loom as Russia targets Kyiv’s grids

AS the lights went out in her hometown, 40-year-old Zinaida Kot could not help but think about her next dialysis treatment for kidney disease. Without electricity, the machine that keeps her alive stops working.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

The New Indian Express Mysuru

Speaker appoints lawyer to assist panel probing Justice Varma graft case

LOK Sabha Speaker Om Birla has appointed advocate Karan Umesh Salvi as a consultant to assist the judges’ inquiry committee investigating allegations of corruption against Justice Yashwant Varma.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The New Indian Express Mysuru

Zomato parent co Eternal gets ₹128 cr GST demand

ETERNAL Limited, the company formerly known as Zomato Limited, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Saturday that it has received a significant goods and services tax (GST) demand order totalling about ₹128.35 crore from tax authorities in Uttar Pradesh.

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1 min

October 20, 2025

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