The government gives guaranteed return to private companies in its business dealings and considers their profit-motive good and desirable. Why the same doesn't hold true for farmers?

Centre has announced two schemes to reduce import dependence in medicine manufacturing. Will they work this time?

The panel-led by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lawmaker Kanimozhi Karunanidhi will hear officials of pharmaceutical departments on the status of the COVID-19 vaccine

The Finance Minister has announced a Rs 65,000 crore fertilizer subsidy to enable timely availability of fertilisers in the upcoming crop season for farmers

FM Nirmala Sitharaman Press Conference Live: FM Sitharaman's announced several stimulus measures to revive the ecomony on Thursday, November 12. Among several of them, she announced new subsidies for employers and employees under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana Subsidy

A preliminary meeting would be held at NITI Aayog on Monday to identify more companies. The meeting would be held to assess which companies and assets are non-strategic in nature and can be pushed for sale in the next round

The rallies are scheduled to begin around 11 am on each of the three days and will be conducted amid strict COVID-19 protocols

Coronavirus vaccine: Several global trials of the vaccine, AZD1222, were put on hold last month after an unexplained illness in a study participant. While most trials have resumed, US trials are still on pause

Department of Fertilisers under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers has been ranked 3rd out of the 65 Ministries / Departments with a score 4.11 on a scale of 5 on Data Governance Quality Index

Vaghela currently serves as the Secretary in Department of Pharmaceuticals under Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers. A Gujarat cadre IAS officer from 1986 batch, he looks after pricing of medicines and medical devices

Altogether 14.08 lakh farmers have been enrolled for crop insurance coverage, Agriculture Secretary Saurabh Garg said

In a presentation made at the official launch of these schemes, the department of pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers points out that the schemes when operationalised will result in import substitution and drug security for the country

India had banned export of hydroxychloroquine on March 25, with some exceptions, amid views in some quarters that the drug could be used to fight COVID-19

DPIIT has prescribed minimum 60%, 70% and 80% local contents for 2020-21, 2021-23 and 2023-25, respectively, of local chemicals and petrochemical contents in public procurement

So far, 1,446 people have recovered from the disease and 107 deaths have been reported in the country. The authorities has so far conducted 73,439 tests, including 3,380 in the last 24 hours

As per DPIIT, industries manufacturing heavy electrical items, telecom equipment, fertilisers, defence equipment and automotive parts among others have been proposed to be allowed to resume operations

Coronavirus news updates: There's a lot of misinformation about masks and not everybody needed to wear them, social distancing more important: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Stocks to watch today on March 18: Dr Reddy's, Delta Corp, Muthoot Finance among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Wednesday's trading session

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

Reliance Jio, as per its own calculations, has paid more than three times of the dues estimated by the Department of Telecommunications