The Assam government on Friday said the ordinance to facilitate setting up of MSME units will not only be a “huge game-changer” by aiding the ease of doing business but will also not pose ...

The government has to take more steps besides lowering the cost of credit to make Indian MSMEs competitive in the global market, according to bankers. Punjab National Bank MD and CEO S.S. Mallikarjun...

An Assam government decision to speed up industrialisation by suspending the licence-permit regime for three years and easing land conversion has put under glare the BJP government’s election pr...

Public sector banks have sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore loans to MSMEs under the emergency credit line guarantee scheme (ECLGS) against a target of Rs 3 lakh crore as part of the Centre’s Rs 20 lakh cro...

The CPM on Wednesday demanded extension of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to the urban poor to help them deal with the rampant job losses caused by the ill-planne...

The grim employment scenario in urban India got aggravated while the rural sector showed some improvement in the last week of May, with researchers attributing the uptick in the villages to seasonal s...

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...

The Union cabinet on Monday approved a plan to support stressed MSMEs and a fund of funds for the sector, while it raised the turnover threshold for a category of players. Stressed MSMEs will get Rs 2...

The Union Cabinet on Monday approved Rs 50,000 crore equity infusion for MSMEs to strengthen their growth potential.The government also approved Rs 20,000 crore subordinate debt for stressed MSMEs.Uni...

The outstanding incremental non-food credit growth contracted 1.2 per cent to Rs 91 lakh crore in April from Rs 92.12 lakh crore in March, according to latest Reserve Bank data. On a year-on-year ba...