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25,000 soldiers guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal

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Islamabad : Pakistan has raised a 25,000-strong special force and put in place extensive measures to protect and manage its strategic assets, including its nuclear arsenal, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said.

"A special security force of 25,000 personnel, who have been specially trained and provided sophisticated weapons, has been deployed to protect (the nuclear assets)," Dar said while winding up the debate on the 2013-14 budget in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament.

Pakistan has raised a Special Response Force, a Special Escort Force and a Marine Force to protect and guard its strategic assets, he said, without giving further details. (Writer-South Asia)

Kesar-Saffron cultivation in Gujarat

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Anand Agricultural University (AAU) has successfully grown saffron under controlled conditions and claims that the most expensive herb in the world could be grown in the fields of the north Gujarat region having favourable climatic conditions for its farming.

The university began its cultivation a year ago with saplings having been brought from  Kashmir valley, the only region where saffron is grown in India.

AAU's biotechnology department head R S Phogat, who carried out the cultivation at university's

Speaking to The Indian Express, he said the saffron produced at the university's farm at Anand in controlled environment was found to be as good as that of Kashmir, including the chemical content. He said all the plants at the university's farm gave flowers at par with those in Kashmir and female part of the flower called "stigma" used as commercial product was similar to the one produced in Kashmir.

Stating that the saffron plants can be grown in green houses as well by maintaining the required temperature and providing direct sunlight, he said the climatic condition of the north Gujarat districts of Patan, Mehsana, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar during the period of saffron cultivation — August to November — were very favourable for saffron farming.

He said the herb, which was used as a natural ingredients in preparing food and drinks, could bring good returns to the farmers because of its high cost in the market, which was approximately Rs 2.5 lakh per kg.farm in Anand, says the saffron can be grown north Gujarat region having temperature of 20-22 degrees and minimum humidity required for flowering of saffron plants in October-November.

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The university began its cultivation a year ago with saplings having been brought from Badgam district in Kashmir valley, the only region where saffron is grown in India.
AAU's biotechnology department head R S Phogat, who carried out the cultivation at university's farm in Anand, says the saffron can be grown north Gujarat region having temperature of 20-22 degrees and minimum humidity required for flowering of saffron plants in October-November.
Speaking to The Indian Express, he said the saffron produced at the university's farm at Anand in controlled environment was found to be as good as that of Kashmir, including the chemical content. He said all the plants at the university's farm gave flowers at par with those in Kashmir and female part of the flower called "stigma" used as commercial product was similar to the one produced in Kashmir.
Stating that the saffron plants can be grown in green houses as well by maintaining the required temperature and providing direct sunlight, he said the climatic condition of the north Gujarat districts of Patan, Mehsana, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar during the period of saffron cultivation — August to November — were very favourable for saffron farming.
He said the herb, which was used as a natural ingredients in preparing food and drinks, could bring good returns to the farmers because of its high cost in the market, which was approximately Rs 2.5 lakh per kg.
- See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aau-breaks-new-ground-grows-saffron-at-varsity-farms/1091788/#sthash.xr2kwzGS.dpuf

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) has successfully grown saffron under controlled conditions and claims that the most expensive herb in the world could be grown in the fields of the north Gujarat region having favourable climatic conditions for its farming.
The university began its cultivation a year ago with saplings having been brought from Badgam district in Kashmir valley, the only region where saffron is grown in India.
AAU's biotechnology department head R S Phogat, who carried out the cultivation at university's farm in Anand, says the saffron can be grown north Gujarat region having temperature of 20-22 degrees and minimum humidity required for flowering of saffron plants in October-November.
Speaking to The Indian Express, he said the saffron produced at the university's farm at Anand in controlled environment was found to be as good as that of Kashmir, including the chemical content. He said all the plants at the university's farm gave flowers at par with those in Kashmir and female part of the flower called "stigma" used as commercial product was similar to the one produced in Kashmir.
Stating that the saffron plants can be grown in green houses as well by maintaining the required temperature and providing direct sunlight, he said the climatic condition of the north Gujarat districts of Patan, Mehsana, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar during the period of saffron cultivation — August to November — were very favourable for saffron farming.
He said the herb, which was used as a natural ingredients in preparing food and drinks, could bring good returns to the farmers because of its high cost in the market, which was approximately Rs 2.5 lakh per kg.
- See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aau-breaks-new-ground-grows-saffron-at-varsity-farms/1091788/#sthash.xr2kwzGS.dpuf

he university began its cultivation a year ago with saplings having been brought from Badgam district in Kashmir valley, the only region where saffron is grown in India.
AAU's biotechnology department head R S Phogat, who carried out the cultivation at university's farm in Anand, says the saffron can be grown north Gujarat region having temperature of 20-22 degrees and minimum humidity required for flowering of saffron plants in October-November.
Speaking to The Indian Express, he said the saffron produced at the university's farm at Anand in controlled environment was found to be as good as that of Kashmir, including the chemical content. He said all the plants at the university's farm gave flowers at par with those in Kashmir and female part of the flower called "stigma" used as commercial product was similar to the one produced in Kashmir.
Stating that the saffron plants can be grown in green houses as well by maintaining the required temperature and providing direct sunlight, he said the climatic condition of the north Gujarat districts of Patan, Mehsana, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar during the period of saffron cultivation — August to November — were very favourable for saffron farming.
He said the herb, which was used as a natural ingredients in preparing food and drinks, could bring good returns to the farmers because of its high cost in the market, which was approximately Rs 2.5 lakh per kg.
- See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aau-breaks-new-ground-grows-saffron-at-varsity-farms/1091788/#sthash.xr2kwzGS.dpuf

J&K serves notices on Army, BSF, for defacing Srinagar hill range

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Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, Shri Shailendra Kumar has served notices on the Army, the Border Security Force (BSF) and even the Jammu and Kashmir Police, asking each to explain reasons as to why they had committed ecological vandalism, with the massive defacement of a hill range overlooking the capital city.

Authoritative sources revealed to The Hindu that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had pulled up senior officials and bureaucrats over turning a blind eye to the large-scale defacement of a barren hill range from Sonwar to Zewan by the police and security forces.

The boldly laid slogan “Ajeet hain, abheet hain [we are victorious, we are invincible],” directly facing a civilian population of two million, sources said, was termed “most disgusting” by the Chief Minister.

“They need to address it to the Chinese Army, not their own people,” the Chief Minister is said to have said at an official meeting. He was not available by telephone for confirmation. Bureaucratic sources, however, confirmed that Kashmir’s Divisional Commissioner Shailendar Kumar had served the notices separately to the Army, the BSF and the Police on the Chief Minister’s direction.

Politicians as well as officials were reportedly in unison that the slogans imposed with painted stones over furlongs of the lofty hills were not only an act of “ecological vandalism,” and banned by the Supreme Court of India, but also suggestive of “conquering the country’s own citizens.”

Sources said that a notice, directly served on Headquarters, 15 Corps, asked the Army to immediately restore virginity to the hill. Identical directions under different laws have been reportedly communicated to the BSF and J&K Police.

A senior police officer is said to have resisted dismantling of a building housing the Shergarhi police station and threatened the government through a senior bureaucrat. The officer had reportedly said that “machine guns would roar” if authorities proceeded with the demolition.

The Chief Minister, however, put his foot down and got the station demolished by the Economic and Reconstruction Authority (ERA) within a day.

He alleged that different agencies and bureaucrats had been creating roadblocks in the construction of an ambitious flyover between Jehangir Chowk and Rambagh.

All Deputy Commissioners have been directed to take inventories of government lands occupied or encroached upon by the police.