Karan Choudhury And Sanjeeb Mukherjee

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Flaws in Modi's rural development plans

Flaws in Modi's rural development plans

Rediff.com   6 Jun 2016

Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes.

Modi's soil health card plan: BJP-ruled states among worst performers

Modi's soil health card plan: BJP-ruled states among worst performers

Rediff.com   30 May 2016

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.

How drought is crippling the farm sector

How drought is crippling the farm sector

Rediff.com   27 May 2016

Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.

Centre lowers foodgrain price for welfare plans

Centre lowers foodgrain price for welfare plans

Rediff.com   27 May 2016

Wheat will be now be sold to the schemes at Rs 2 per kg, while rice would be given at Rs 3 per kg.

Zomato loss runs to Rs 1.5 lakh monthly

Zomato loss runs to Rs 1.5 lakh monthly

Rediff.com   27 May 2016

The loss before tax shot up 262 per cent to Rs 492 crore for the financial year ended March 2016.

Excess late rains could hit agri hopes

Excess late rains could hit agri hopes

Rediff.com   27 May 2016

In many parts of central and north India, monsoon reaches only in July.

Paytm may play white knight to IIM grads benched by Flipkart

Paytm may play white knight to IIM grads benched by Flipkart

Rediff.com   27 May 2016

Sources said the fresh batch of profiles include students whose date of joining has been delayed by Flipkart.

Skymet forecasts 'above normal' rainfall

Skymet forecasts 'above normal' rainfall

Rediff.com   25 May 2016

Skymet is credited with correctly predicting the 2009 drought.

Spectrum auction pushed to September

Spectrum auction pushed to September

Rediff.com   23 May 2016

About 2,000 MHz will be put up for auction in bands such as 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1,800 MHz, 2,100 MHz, 2,300 MHz and 2,500 MHz

Centre cracks down on food prices

Centre cracks down on food prices

Rediff.com   22 May 2016

Recommends delisting of chana futures, open to lowering sugar import duty

'No one in India will die of starvation because of Centre's laxity'

'No one in India will die of starvation because of Centre's laxity'

Rediff.com   16 May 2016

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.

Give up 'ostrich-like' attitude in drought handling: SC tells states

Give up 'ostrich-like' attitude in drought handling: SC tells states

Rediff.com   12 May 2016

The apex court urged the central government to update the drought management manual by December 31.

India Inc logs on to Facebook at Work

India Inc logs on to Facebook at Work

Rediff.com   11 May 2016

Facebook will now directly compete with Slack, HipChat, Yammer and a few others in this space.

Flipkart no more bellwether of e-tail valuations

Flipkart no more bellwether of e-tail valuations

Rediff.com   9 May 2016

Loses notional value by 37.5% because of markdowns by investors

Wheat Blast at India's doorsteps, govt says no need to panic

Wheat Blast at India's doorsteps, govt says no need to panic

Rediff.com   7 May 2016

Centre could ban wheat import from Bangladesh, apart from restricting cultivation in West Bengal and Assam

Paytm goes global

Paytm goes global

Rediff.com   4 May 2016

It has signed up with Uber and Macys.

Why vegetable prices are hitting the roof

Why vegetable prices are hitting the roof

Rediff.com   3 May 2016

Vegetables tend to get damaged faster during summers.

India Inc faces a cyber attack every 10 hours

India Inc faces a cyber attack every 10 hours

Rediff.com   3 May 2016

India continues to rank as the third top source of overall malicious activity including spam, malware, phishing hosts and bots

Paytm ties up with Wipro for payments bank

Paytm ties up with Wipro for payments bank

Rediff.com   2 May 2016

Wipro will be implementing the core banking solution for Paytm.

Microsoft keen to get bigger pie in payments bank segment

Microsoft keen to get bigger pie in payments bank segment

Rediff.com   2 May 2016

Last year, the software giant launched a cloud adoption programme for SMBs.