India, Sept. 8 -- The current summer-sown season will be his last tryst with cotton, a crop that once brought prosperity in his entire village, said Kailash Rao Kadam, a 55-year-old grower from wester... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- The Goods and Services Tax on most agricultural inputs - from tractors to sprinklers - now fall in the lowest rate slab of 5% from as high as 18% earlier, a move that will push d... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Torrential rains across key food-bowl states, including in Punjab, have inundated thousands of hectares of farmland, destroying crops, some weeks away from harvest. Rains disrupt... Read More
India, Sept. 3 -- The Centre will ramp up purchases of cotton at federally-fixed minimum support prices or MSP to cushion farmers from falling local rates, following the government's decision to waive... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- The Centre will ramp up purchases of cotton at federally-fixed minimum support prices or MSP to cushion farmers from falling local rates, following the government's decision to w... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- An interministerial committee will decide on the next quantum of ethanol to be blended with petrol under India's biofuels programme but the emerging consensus in the panel is tha... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Indian marine farms, key suppliers of shrimp to the US, are subjected to several safety standards, traceability norms and global protocols, some introduced in the past two years,... Read More
India, Aug. 26 -- The Goods and Services Tax (GST), launched in 2017, was meant to be a "good and simple tax". Finance minister Arun Jaitley had rightly said during its launch, "There will be problems... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- A majority of consumers using a national toll-free helpline to log complaints have received refunds worth crores for an array of faulty products and deficient services, potential... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- A majority of consumers using a national toll-free helpline to log complaints have received refunds worth crores for an array of faulty products and deficient services, potential... Read More