The Union cabinet on Wednesday allowed farmers to sell their products anywhere in the country, took steps to encourage contract farming and removed several items from the Essential Commodities Act.Far...

The Congress on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had decided that farmers have to be completely “self-reliant” and so had left them to “fend for themselves”.The party rejected “as a...

Muhammad Sahid Ali’s heart was beating when he went to his farm to assess the impact of Cyclone Amphan on Thursday morning.The middle-aged farmer’s both poly houses — large covered structures in...

The Bengal government is not put off by the legislative changes proposed by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday as it has already incorporated in its APMC Act some of the changes the M...

The government on Thursday announced a Rs 3.16 lakh crore package of free foodgrains for migrant workers, concessional credit to farmers and working capital loan for street vendors as part of the seco...

An elderly farmer, who swam across a river when police at one end of a bridge stopped him from going to a chemist’s to get medicines for his wife, drowned while swimming back “in fear” after see...

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is eager to boost the agricultural economy in Assam and help farmers in distress, by increasing its services and stoppages of the Covid-19 special parcel trains, ...

Confusion ruled on the first day that factories and farms across the country were supposed to stagger back to life after a month-long lockdown.An air of sullen silence reigned over most of India Inc w...

Farmers from lower Assam are demanding compensation before the next harvest season for the losses they have suffered because of the lockdown, failing which, they said, they would have no option but to...

The Jharkhand government is contemplating measures to strengthen mechanisms to support farmers, labourers and marginalized section of the society and will provide 10kg of rice to “white card” hold...