Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
Significant portion of the funds used to fuel urban demand have become illegal and inoperative.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
BMS, BKS and SJM are trying to forge common cause with outfits on the other side of the ideological divide over the government's policies they are not in agreement with.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
The Niti Aayog is preparing 15-year vision document that will replace the Five-Year Plan from the next financial year
The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.
Chetan Ghate, Pami Dua and Ravindra Dholakia have been appointed for 4 years
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast
The textiles sector is India's largest organised employer and critical for the prime minister's dream of creating jobs
Skymet said September would be much better and it expects it to end at 111 per cent of the LPA
In the global markets, pulses prices have slumped because of a bumper harvest.
Agriculture ministry to prepare blueprint for purchasing onions directly from farmers and the expenditure on damages would be shared equally between the Centre and state governments.
Good monsoon is likely to create more jobs in the agriculture sector, which in turn could save the exchequer around Rs 10,000 crore
This could have huge implications for agriculture, food prices, supply and overall economic growth of the country
At present, the Met department is often unable to provide exact information on the exact amount of rain over a localised area.
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday approved the biggest tax reform since Independence.
For the government to meet its GST roll-out deadline of April 1, 2017, the states will have to ratify the Bill before Parliament's winter session, starting November.
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