The Centre has set up a group of ministers to examine the feasibility of enacting a law that allows farmland to be leased to tenants.Analysts said such a move would help millions of sharecroppers acce...

Niti Aayog member V.K. Saraswat has said the Internet shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir did not have any significant effect on its economy as people there use the Net only for “watching dirty films”....

More than 38,000 doctors, including those retired from the Armed Forces Medical Services, have volunteered to help the government in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, a senior official said on ...

Meghalaya will set up a cattle feed mill and a ranch to augment its milk production.Addressing a Stakeholder Consultation on Capacity Building Programmes under Milk Mission here on Friday, deputy chie...

Economic reforms are supposed to facilitate and hasten growth. At least, that was the stated objective of the introduction of the goods and services tax, the insolvency and bankruptcy code and the rea...

I wrote on New Year’s Day about Arvind Subramanian — the chief economic adviser who would barge into Arun Jaitley’s room and shower him with bright policy ideas, only to be politely listened to ...

The NITI Aayog building in New Delhi has been sealed for 48 hours after a director-level officer tested positive for coronavirus, a senior official said on Tuesday.'A director-level officer working at...

The issue of the entry of foreign universities in India has always generated ample debate. Back in 2007, the United Progressive Alliance-I government had introduced a bill in Parliament to regulate th...

Measures to stimulate the economy through infrastructure growth and job creation in MSMEs were the main areas of discussion during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with economists and indu...

Congress chief ministers on Saturday laid stress on the need for a better approach by the Centre towards farm production and marketing to ameliorate the plight of farmers across the country.Participat...