India's national agriculture policy is 20 years old and its response to farm crisis continues to be ad hoc, primarily focused on letting private players provide infrastructure and better remuneration to farmers who have consistently failed to deliver

The exercise is meant to find equity investors willing to take over the management of PMC Bank in order to revive the beleaguered lender and resume its day-to-day operations

Making a case for another white revolution, the SBI Ecowrap report states that India is no more just a cereal granary and states are producing diversified crops and it is time that we go for white revolution

Moving bill in Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says government was compelled to come out with an ordinance as condition of cooperative banks is \"grave\"; as many as 277 urban cooperative banks have reported losses in 2018-19 fiscal, she adds

The Minister said the government was investing around Rs 500 crore to set up high speed internet facilities across the state under the TamilNet project

The Monsoon session in Parliament generally takes place around mid-July but this year it got delayed in the wake of rising coronavirus cases in the country

\"Someone from India entering the backlog today would have to wait 195 years to receive an EB-3 green card. Even if we give their children this limbo status, none of them will have a prayer of becoming a US citizen,\" Lee said on the Senator floor

Facebook stake purchase in Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms is the largest India-involved deal so far this year. This brings India inbound M&A activity to $17.3 billion, up 1.6 per cent from the first half of last year, says report

Tax regime needs greater stability, predictability and less litigation

Though the government's SAUBHAGYA scheme claims to have provided connections to 100 per cent households, that is not sufficient. Under this scheme, the beneficiary households were provided only one LED light and one power plug, says Shailendra Roy

The bill seeks to set up an Electricity Contract Enforcement Authority (ECEA) having power of a civil court to settle disputes related to power purchase agreement between power generation companies and distribution companies

A mandatory CSR regime would require investors to ensure that the CSR contributing company has in place adequate avenues for its CSR obligations

Speaking to media after Cabinet meeting, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government is removing the imprisonment angle and reducing punishment proposed under Companies act

The decision to switch to the new income tax rates will depend on the level of deductions that you are able to use in the present regime

The Indian economy is going through one of its longest spells of slowdown - six quarters and counting

The IBC Amendment Bill 2019 expanded the ambit of the insolvency law by including provisions on interim finance, setting of threshold limit on application by homebuyers and providing immunity to corporate debtor post successful resolution plan

Anti-CAA protests LIVE updates: Police forces were pelted with stones in Gorakhpur, Firozabad and Bahraich of Uttar Pradesh as violent protests intensified across Uttar Pradesh

The industry body also wants the government to reintroduce the classical tax system of dividend taxation in the hands of the shareholders with protection for small shareholders

Violent protests against the Citizenship Act have rocked several parts of the state; Mamata Banerjee says the state will not implement the law in West Bengal

Shizo Abe was scheduled to arrive in Guwahati on Sunday on a three-day India visit to hold summit talks with PM Modi