In the global markets, pulses prices have slumped because of a bumper harvest.
Creation of 115 million non-farm jobs over next decade critical to sustaining growth, says McKinsey
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
Taxes on health, excluding medicines, could rise from 8.8 per cent currently, to around 13.6 per cent - an increase of 4.8 per cent.
At present, the Met department is often unable to provide exact information on the exact amount of rain over a localised area.
Moody's expects tax to be lower than the multitude of taxes such as sales tax, excise duties, local taxes, and value-added taxes the automobile sector currently pays
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.
Scrapping Plan and non-Plan classifications necessitates the change
Breaking a long tradition, the PMO has ensured that specific divisions in each ministry are allocated to junior ministers.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked NITI Aayog to frame policies to propel India into the next century.
Seven months down the line, not much progress has been made, except that the scheme is still being fine-tuned.
In its manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had criticised the Congress-led UPA regime for "policy and decision paralysis".
Lack of political consensus on economic reforms a key concern.
With EU, it is part of the FTA that we will need to negotiate.
The committee would submit its report in the next two weeks.
Cong leaders speak in two voices but final stand may be decided at a meeting headed by Rahul Gandhi next week
Political scientist Vinay Sitapati explores the role played by the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao in steering the reforms through in his new book Half Lion.
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