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.
After demonetisation, demand jumped as many people with unaccounted money bought the yellow metal.
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.
Major focus will be on adequately funding existing schemes to ensure their timely completion before the next General Elections.
If there is turmoil in currencies, gold can shoot up sharply, says author of Arora Report.
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.
Almost 3.3 million houses awaiting completion under the IAY will be built by the end of 2016-17.
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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 customs duty from gold imports could be approximately Rs 8,000 crore, about less than half of what was collected a year ago.
Sops for middle class, poor and farmers on cards.
Sentiment very bullish for 2017; prices could touch all-time peak of $1,161 soon and may double from present levels by the end of the year. Rajesh Bhayani reports.
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