New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday will sign an agreement formalising the sharing of Sone river waters, resolving the dispute that has persisted since Jharkhand was carved out of Biha... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday will sign an agreement formalising the sharing of Sone river waters, resolving the dispute that has persisted since Jharkhand was carved out of Biha... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Retail sugar prices fell for the first time on Thursday after surging to a record Rs.65.06 a kg a day earlier, with the Centre's decision to allow duty-free imports of 1 million ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Union government will deploy its entire onion buffer stock through retail sales this year after procuring only about 120,000 tonnes - well short of its 200,000-tonne target -... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Employment generation under the Centre's flagship rural jobs programme has slowed sharply during what is typically its busiest period of the year, with official data tabled in Par... Read More
New Delhi, July 31 -- The Union government has increased the onion procurement price for the sixth time this season as purchases for its buffer stock continue to fall short of the revised target, even... Read More
New Delhi, July 30 -- Amid protests by farmers in Bhopal over moong procurement, the Centre has told the Madhya Pradesh government that it has already approved procurement of the state's entire eligib... Read More
New Delhi, July 29 -- Amid a surge in sugar prices, the Centre on Tuesday imposed stockholding limits on sugar dealers, under which they cannot hold more than 4,000 quintals of sugar or retain stocks ... Read More
New Delhi, July 28 -- A parliamentary committee has pulled up the Centre for failing to adequately respond to its recommendations on fertiliser PSU disinvestment, saying the government has not answere... Read More
New Delhi, July 28 -- The Centre has asked the agriculture ministry to relax the Price Support Scheme (PSS) norm requiring government-procured pulse stocks to be disposed of within nine months, as it ... Read More