The Mamata Banerjee government has started discussions with Nabard (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and the World Bank to secure a loan of Rs 2,000 crore to undertake permanent re...

Kathuria, who is the lead economist and co-ordinator of the group, said many factors were in favour of the North East in terms of global trend such as the availability of fresh organic products. The r...

Global investors will closely watch the performance of the Indian administration in addressing the challenges faced in the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking amid the global geopolitical tensio...

A torrent of bad news, dismal data and dire forecasts continue to mock the Narendra Modi government’s increasingly feeble assertions that it has a grip on the Covid-19 crisis. The World Bank has now...

India’s economy will shrink 3.2 per cent in the current fiscal, the World Bank said on Monday as it joined a chorus of international agencies that are forecasting a contraction in the growth rate be...

The Bengal government on Monday allotted a sum of Rs 850 crore as pension to nearly 50 lakh beneficiaries of various social pension schemes, and Rs 1,050 crore for the development of industrial infras...

A “very strict” quarantine procedure is in store for the thousands returning to Assam, with the state seeing a constant spike in its Covid-19 count. The state government has already approached the...

The World Bank on Friday said it has approved a $1billion aid to support India’s efforts to provide social assistance to poor and vulnerable households severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic ...

The World Bank on Friday approved a USD 1 billion loan to support India's efforts for providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households, severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.The ...

The Saarc countries have rolled out a raft of stimulus packages to boost investments, buffer private businesses and bolster growth in response to the Covid-19 pandemic that has upended life and disrup...