El Nino is often associated with below average warmer, dry weather across Asia Pacific region.
Crops including fruit, vegetables account for 60% of GDP in agriculture, forestry, fishing sector.
The Bharat Interface For Money app was launched on the iOS platform earlier this month. It is also available on the more popular Android platform. There have been over 17 million downloads of the BHIM app so far.
Weather watchers said it can't be known till May whether El Nio will impact the monsoon or not.
Imports rise at highest pace in more than 2 years as crude oil price spikes.
New Delhi to push for services trade facilitation & food stockpiling.
Major focus will be on adequately funding existing schemes to ensure their timely completion before the next General Elections.
A committee on digitalisation headed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had in an interim report recommended taxing cash transactions of at least Rs 50,000 to promote digital payments.
NITI Aayog wants the prime minister's flagship initiative should focus on labour-intensive sectors and policies that impede their growth to get special attention.
A projected drop in production in the 2016-17 sugar season (October-September) has kept domestic prices firm, reflecting in improved profitability and stock prices of companies.
Government planning to slash the number of days required to start a business in Mumbai, Delhi from the current 26.
Almost 3.3 million houses awaiting completion under the IAY will be built by the end of 2016-17.
The sharp rise was also due to a statistical illusion -- low industrial numbers in November 2015, and sharp reversal of a 12-month declining trend in capital goods.
Aayog feels expansion of the lowest base will enable more people to pay taxes.
'The service charge is given to the employees as a part of their salary. Now, employees have been calling to negotiate their salaries to balance the loss that they will face personally. In which case, we won't be able to retain some of them.'
As many as 4,291 farmers in Maharashtra killed themselves in 2015 topping the list of states with the highest number of suicides in the farm sector followed by Karnataka (1,559), Telangana (1,400), Madhya Pradesh (1,290), Chhattisgarh (954), and Andhra Pradesh (916).
The MSME sector, which is employment-intensive, accounts for 45 per cent of the country's manufacturing, 40 per cent of exports and nearly 8 per cent of gross domestic product.
Sops for middle class, poor and farmers on cards.
Powerlooms and a lack of policy have pushed heritage art towards extinction, say Shreya Jai and Subhayan Chakraborty.
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