The Committee on Doubling Farmers Income (DFI) has called for an overhaul of the registration process for crop inputs like pesticides to ensure speedy availability of patented and off-patent agri-inputs in the country.

The main problem with the survey is that it gives a glimpse of what the government should be doing - it just does not delve deep enough into the subject. In areas like national security, ethics in AI, and even in creating centres of excellence, it seems to skim the surface.

While the Sensex rose 89 points to 34,395, Nifty closed 20 points higher to 10,548 level. India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday monsoon rains are likely to be 97 per cent of their long-term average in 2018, reassuring farmers ahead of summer planting in a country where only half of the farmland is irrigated. The BSE index which opened nearly 100 points higher marked its longest winning run since early September 2014 after close.

In the last four fiscal years, 21 public sector banks could recover only Rs 29,343 crore out of the total Rs 2.72 lakh crore of bad loans

For the third consecutive year, India is likely to have normal monsoon rains, government weather forecaster Indian Meteorology Department (IMD)  and private player Skymet have stated.

The firm has become the second-most valued automaker in India behind Maruti Suzuki which enjoys market capitalisation of Rs 2.76 lakh crore.