A five-seven per cent agriculture growth in 2013-14 would mean farming might exceed the 12th Five-Year Plan annual growth target of four per cent, if the trend continues.
India's gold import bill, estimated at $3 billion in May, is seen falling further this month
In the third of a six-part series, Business Standard travels through diamond and textile units in Surat to assess the impact of demonetisation.
We had prepared a contingency plan for 580 districts, the minister said.
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy said it failed to understand as to how such groups could be formed to eliminate stray dogs when there is a law to deal with the issue.
Congress party in Maharashtra has its hopes pinned on a 'newly recharged' vice-president Rahul Gandhi for its revival.
States need to create alternative marketing structures for farm produce since middlemen also provide vital services that are otherwise unavailable to the farmer.
Tuesday's policy announcement had a regulatory and development component.
The Reserve Bank of India kept interest rates on hold at 7.50 per cent.
India Inc has pitched for rate cut to boost economic activities.
The Reserve Bank is unlikely to lower the interest rates.
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.
The opposition Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, however, said on Thursday the Fadnavis government was not serious in addressing the situation and the belated move was only meant to avoid judicial action.
Yield loss due to natural calamity is calculated based on field reports and assessment of crop-cutting experiments by district and block agriculture officers.
Hailstorms may cause Rs 12k-cr crop damage, El Nino a bigger worry.
The minders of the Modi government's economic policy believe it would take 7 to 8 quarters -- or till around late 2018 -- for the economy to reap the rewards of demonetisation.
The government has also announced a slew of measures to ease cash flow for the rural sector.
The repo or short term lending rate remains unchanged at 6.75 per cent and the reverse repo rate at 7.75 per cent.
While the IMD had forecast a 'normal' monsoon for the entire season, Skymet stated that rain this year would be 'below normal', report Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Sahil Makkar.
Speaking of the religious freedom and safety they feel in India, Rabbi Romiel Daniel, part of the Indian Jewish Congregation of USA, tells George Joseph/Rediff.com that members of his community hope for better relations between India and Israel.
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A section of the market believes RBI should hold rates as negative real rates will hurt savings and investment.
Gujarat govt will set up a Tribal university in the Narmada district, over 100 smart Ashram shalas, 10 new hostels for tribal girl students
The IMD has said temperatures in most parts of the country from March to May would be 'above normal'.
The IMD came out with a dismaying prediction.
Farmers have suffered a lot on account of natural calamities.
Shortage of seeds, threat of El Nino expected to restrict sowing.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement about demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes was hailed as a "bold step" by President Pranab Mukherjee and the BJP, which called it a "surgical strike" on black money, but his rivals denounced it as a "heartless and ill-conceived" decision that would inconvenience people.
In Delhi, the wholesale price is now Rs 48-52 a kg; the retail one is Rs 80 a kg.
Expenditure cuts necessitated by slowing revenue growth, weak industrial activity worrisome portents
Pandemonium over Telangana and some other issues paralysed Parliament for the fourth working day on Monday as members created uproar leading to repeated adjournments of both the Houses.
Here's what the national capital needs to do to ensure the residents stop breathing toxic fumes.
Manish Sabharwal tackles 5 criticisms of demonetisation.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala released a list of 55 persons who lost their lives while standing in queues at banks and ATMs in the wake of demonetisation and demanded compensation to their families besides probe into their death.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said awareness about it should be spread across the country so that at least 50 per cent of the farmers join it within two years.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
In the second of a six-part series, Sanjay Jog of Business Standard walks across the streets of Indore to find out how it has been hit by demonetisation.
Yadav asked the centre to send tankers in large numbers to the parched Bundelkhand region for supply of water from dams and canals there.
Though the summer is expected to be hotter, global and domestic forecasts point to good rains.
RBI has, since January, cut its policy rate four times.
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