While the Mumbai attacks have thrown India’s right to the 2011 World Cup in serious doubts, former BCCI president Sharad Pawar has dismissed speculation that the tournament was under threat.

Speaking with a private news-channel, Pawar said, “There is still some time for that and I am confident our government will take corrective actions.”

Pawar, who is also the Union Agriculture Minister in the Indian government, said, following the Mumbai attacks, the security measures would become even tougher so that no such incidents get repeated.

New Delhi, Dec 1 : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister R. R. Patil resigned from his post as he was feeling uneasy in the wake of the terror attacks in the city.

Pawar said Patil had expressed his desire to step down three days ago, but was advised to stay on till the operation against the terrorists ends.

The ongoing Global financial crisis would marginally affect Indian agriculture sector and it would remain stable at around 4% growth rate. The views were expressed by Union minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Sharad Pawar.

Mr. Pawar was speaking in the sidelines of a conference organized by Forward Markets Commission in Mumbai.

New Delhi, Oct 17 : Government has launched a series of schemes and programmes to substantially increase agricultural production in the country.

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that there is sixty per cent increase in the Budget for the agriculture sector in the current fiscal, as compared to the last.

" The National Food Security Mission and the Horticulture Mission, the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana have also been launched," Pawar said.

New Delhi, Oct 16 : Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that India''s stand that promotion of bio-energy should not be at the cost of food security.

Addressing at the World Food Day here, Pawar said ''Conversion of foodgrains and edible oil seeds for producing bio-fuel will create food security concerns, as is evident already.

Highlighting the need to prepare the country to tackle the adverse impact of climate change, Pawar called for higher investment in agriculture, especially in research, and making research products easily available to the farmers.

New Delhi, Sept 13 : Union Agriculture and Food Minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday asked the State Government to substantially increase spending on the animal husbandry and dairy sector for fast growth and to rid this sector of its ills.