Data show leather got just 0.12% of the total FDI inflows during August 1991-March 2007.
India's share in the world market for basmati rice is about 53 per cent, said the government on Friday.
Of the seven surveys presented under Modi govt, predictions of three were quite close to the actual GDP growth rate, one saw the base year change in between, but the last three were way off the mark.
Displacing fears of a reduced cotton harvest in Punjab, officials say the state is set to achieve its target of 26.90 lakh bales this fiscal year.
Sowing up 400%; prices may be low in 2014 as Maharashtra, MP and Bengal also likely to increase acreage 15-20%.
Her appointment as World Health Organisation's deputy director offers an opportunity to push for improving the medical research environment in India.
The saffron party promised a "direct payment of a proportionate bonus" to small and marginal farmers -- those owning up to five acres of land.
Total area sown till last Friday was 16.56 mn hectares, up 23%.
Skymet said the monsoon this year could be 100 per cent of the long period average (LPA) with a model error of plus and minus 5 per cent.
The female tiger, named Nadia, is believed to be the first known case of an animal infected with COVID-19 in the US. It is suspected that she contracted the virus from a caretaker who was asymptomatic at that time.
The current crisis Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is facing is a cumulative effect of inattention to water management and the fiscal burden of populist promises, says Aditi Phadnis.
The performance of Indian cotton exports to China is better than the United States, according to a latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture.
India and the Netherlands on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in biotechnology with an aim to find solutions to problems in agricultural and health
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