Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes.
In touch with the Swiss government under the DTAA mandate
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh (all BJP-ruled), Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and Kerala are among the worst performers.
Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.
Wheat will be now be sold to the schemes at Rs 2 per kg, while rice would be given at Rs 3 per kg.
In many parts of central and north India, monsoon reaches only in July.
Two years of Modi's foreign policy can be best remembered for its flip-flops on Pakistan and the PM's blockbuster speeches to delirious non-resident communities and the grand receptions he has received.
Skymet is credited with correctly predicting the 2009 drought.
Modi said there was a need to make transactions 'transparent' in India.
Recommends delisting of chana futures, open to lowering sugar import duty
PM to launch outreach campaign with a rally in UP on May 26, ministers to visit 200 cities in 2 weeks.
The BJP, on the other hand, learnt from past mistakes to clinch power.
The party is using the two year occasion to launch its election campaign in the state, which was key to them reaching simple majority in the Lok Sabha in 2014.
There is no foodgrain shortage in the country as our total storage capacity is more than 81 million tonnes, while the public distribution system requirement is 61 million tonnes, says Ram Vilas Paswan.
The apex court urged the central government to update the drought management manual by December 31.
Mallya might continue to elude ED, CBI interrogation in the short term but could still be extradited to India
There is also a lobby within the bureaucracy that wants to see Rajan's influence curtailed
Saurabh Patel, energy minister, Gujarat, who has handled the energy portfolio since 2002, speaks to Archis Mohan on GPSC's investment in the KG basin and says the criticism is politically motivated.
Centre could ban wheat import from Bangladesh, apart from restricting cultivation in West Bengal and Assam
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