India staring at first drought in six years.
'This confrontation could have been avoided by a less arrogant administration that initially listened, used whatever negotiating skills they had and tried to be more credible,' observes Ramesh Menon.
Another bill related to the farm sector, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, was passed on Tuesday.
India continues to apply import quotas on marble.
Farmers who are using traditional irrigation systems and practices are better coping in times of drought.
We have our smartphones, our computers, and what not to ensure we live in a comfortable and easy live. But what if one day all the machines in our lives were taken away? Would we survive? Would we lead happy lives? French Farmer Jean-Bernard Huon, who lives in a corner of southern Brittany on France's west coast, shows us what life would be without machines. When farm machinery revolutionised French agriculture in the years after World War Two, a young Jean-Bernard Huon turned his back on the new technology and continues to do so till date.
The government also proposed promoting 'one product one district' for better marketing and export of horticulture crops. It also called on states for early implementation of three key central model laws on land leasing, agriculture produce and livestock marketing and contract farming.
Weather forecasts have notoriously large error margins.
Average delinquency rate for close to 12 months seasoned loans was 9% during 2009.
After grappling with the issue for two years, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had on November 21 ordered that the margin to be charged, over and above the gas sale price, should be fixed between the seller and buyers in all sectors other than urea and LPG.
'This pandemic has given him a new platform to perform,' says a member of the government. 'He should feel lucky that he has got an opportunity now to demonstrate to the world his original talent.' 'He needs a visionary script to perform.' Sheela Bhatt reports on the politics of the pandemic.
India became more dependent on Iraqi oil recently after it cut supplies from the sanctions-hit Iran.
This race among parties to woo the farmers mainly stems from the analysis of political pundits that the peasant class played a crucial role in the defeat of the BJP in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh.
Indians want change and progress. They should be willing to accept tough decisions, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
The GDP slumped to a three-year low lagging China for the second straight quarter -- as manufacturing slowed ahead of the GST launch amid demonetisation effect.
Improved performance of manufacturing, services and trade sectors helped boost GDP
The agrarian crisis must be met with similarly speedy responses.
Minister of State for Commerce and Industry E M Sudarsana Natchiappan said the industry should reach out to people of those areas where they propose to set up projects and explain about the advantages locals can have in terms of employment and development.
Clauses on land return, action against officials diluted
After reaching a deal with ANZ in a six-year tussle, Pankaj and Radhika Oswal have left Australia and plan to start a new venture in New York
E-auction or e-tendering moves the process of bidding for government contracts completely online, removing most manual procedures and, therefore, creating an accountability trail.
Taizo Son, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's youngest brother, is also planning to enter India.
Massive crowds thronged liquor stores, more vehicles plied on roads and cab-hailing platforms resumed services as India entered the third phase of the lockdown on Monday with further easing of curbs except in containment zones in the shadow of the highest rate of recovery yet from coronavirus.
$10 billion TAPI pipeline unlikely before 2020
'A broad-based revival of private sector investment was likely in 2018-19 after businesses had successfully made the switch to the GST.'
'What will this supposedly more business-friendly government do if it gets a second term?' 'Important labour law and land reforms remain off the table.' 'Witness the arm-twisting of foreign players in e-commerce and all but one player in telecom -- and it is very hard to justify this perception that the BJP is business friendly.' 'There will also remain the real risk of ideas seemingly gleaned from the pages of Amar Chitra Katha, overlaid with PowerPoint presentations,' predicts Rahul Jacob.
The Delhi metropolitan area has one of the highest concentrations of population in the world, and suffocating the people of the area on an annual basis should be treated as a crime against humanity, especially when the cause for such suffocation can be controlled, says Arvind Kumar.
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.
The IMD attributed the projection to a weakening of El Nio and the Indian Ocean Dipole turning positive.
The concept of gold as an asset capable of getting anytime money is evaporating.
'You can't take money from Shaktikanta Das (the RBI governor) and give it to Nirmala Sitharaman (the Union finance minister). She will blow it away on Modi.'
The most worrisome aspect is that most water woes are the result of mismanagement
A provision of Rs 15,000 crore has been made in the budgetary estimate of 2016-17 towards interest subvention.
The Centre will soon write to the states to bring uniformity in the Value Added Tax on oil products so that benefits of price cuts filter down to the masses.
Devakanta from Manipur shows the way in conserving and protecting the biodiversity of the state.
IOC is building a 5 million tonnes per annum LNG terminal at Ennore near Chennai which is to be completed by 2017.
The farmers of Khentia are now working in tandem with the IIT team.
The agriculture sector is likely to grow in the range of 5.2-5.7 per cent in 2013-14, nearly three times more than the last year as good monsoon has raised the prospects of bumper harvest, a CACP discussion paper said.
Noting that farmers are suffering due to problems in the food supply chain, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said there is a need for ensuring better compensation for the farmers against their produce.
The prime minister had openly said the retail sector should be open to competition, domestic and foreign.
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