India’s monsoon rainfall this season will be 102 per cent of the long-term average, skewed towards above normal, the national weather agency said on Monday, boosting expectations for good crop yield...

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A new scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, was announced in the interim Union budget presented earlier this year. It was stated that under this scheme farmers holding up to two hectares of l...

Nirmala Sitharaman’s second budget came against the backdrop of a continuing slowdown of the economy. On Friday, the National Statistical Office had lowered the growth figures for 2018-19 by 0.7 per...

Economic inequality in India has been increasing. According to some sources, India’s top 1 per cent now holds almost 35-60 per cent of the nation’s wealth, while the top 10 per cent holds almost 7...

Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced abolition of 109 check posts, which were set up to levy taxes on agricultural produces entering a regulated market from the jurisdiction of another in an apparen...

Rural distress, the crisis in the agricultural sector, drought in several states and an election year — everything that should spell high allocations and commitment to the Mahatma Gandhi National Ru...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday said farmers and agri entrepreneurs did business worth Rs 357 crore during the lockdown, of which Rs 126 crore came from exporting produce within the...

The national minimum daily wage of Rs 178 that the Centre plans to fix appears based on dated criteria that ignore workers’ expenses on the education of their children, healthcare, entertainment and...

In the year of the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary, it would be prudent to revisit the philosophy behind his approach to rural development in the context of Niti Aayog’s Aspirational Districts P...