Dipam is conducting the selection of merchant bankers and legal advisors, and planning roadshows.
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.
Tech giant allowed to set up fully owned shops, with 30% local sourcing like everyone else.
Skymet is credited with correctly predicting the 2009 drought.
'Now, we have a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 annually.'
Against FY17 target of Rs 56,500 cr, Centre plans to fetch around Rs 6,400 cr in the first half.
Recommends delisting of chana futures, open to lowering sugar import duty
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.
To decide whether capital gains on surrender of call options are taxable
The apex court urged the central government to update the drought management manual by December 31.
There is also a lobby within the bureaucracy that wants to see Rajan's influence curtailed
Centre could ban wheat import from Bangladesh, apart from restricting cultivation in West Bengal and Assam
Vegetables tend to get damaged faster during summers.
The Bill suggests an insolvency regulator.
The proposed bullet train will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will sign the agreement on behalf of India.
The India Meteorological Department's first monsoon forecast for this year would have gladdened many a heart with the hope of plentiful rain, after two drought years.
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