DD Kisan in the past year has clocked an average direct viewership of 500,000 to 10 million.
The country had imported 5.5 million tonnes of pulses last year.
This gains importance in the backdrop of speculation on a second term for Raghuram Rajan.
Amazon has emerged a competition for posterboy of Indian e-commerce Flipkart.
Amazon committed a fresh investment of $3 billion, in addition to the $2 billion it announced in 2014.
What explains Vijay Shekhar Sharma's optimism when other players have started to tread cautiously is Paytm's huge customer base: It has 120 million users and counting, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Sources indicated defence and national security initiatives.
Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes.
Tata Group's CLiQ is the latest to join the e-commerce club, to compete with the likes of Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal.
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.
Not chasing IIM-A graduates whose joining dates have been deferred by rival Flipkart, says the company
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.
Tackling black money gets worst rating; Swachh Bharat, Digital India score poorly.
Flipkart and Snapdeal take a cue from Amazon even as they differ on who is ahead in the race
Indeed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who as Gujarat chief minister was considered close to certain business groups and industrialists, has hardly been seen with any Indian business head.
Skymet is credited with correctly predicting the 2009 drought.
Apple CEO landed in Kanpur for IPL match as jet to Vizag was late; he also got to see Lucknow
Recommends delisting of chana futures, open to lowering sugar import duty
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