These organisations face multiple challenges ranging from low capital base, poor credit facility, lack of business know-how and skilled manpower but with government handholding they have the potential to change the fortunes of small and marginal farmers

From May 18 to June 5, the AQI remained in the 'moderate' category. From July to September, monsoon rains kept pollution levels in check.  By October end, the air turned 'severe' again

From facing a potential collapse to becoming one of the best performing automotive firms in the country, Nikhil Nanda has scripted a remarkable turnaround story at Escorts

Several studies throw up structural, logistical and financial challenges to the growth of crop insurance in India, jeopardised by apparent profiteering by insurance companies

As per the SBI Ecowrap, the monthly income of farmers will go up by a sharp 35 per cent by just revisiting the current Kisan Credit Card (KCC) norms

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued refunds of over Rs 1,45,619 crore to more than 89.29 lakh taxpayers between April 1 and December 8.

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

RBI panel's proposal to allow big corporates/industrial houses to own and run banks and NBFCs is contrary to RBI's own earlier stand, economic logic and historical evidence of multiple economic crises caused by reckless private financial sector players

India Stock Market Highlights Today: HDFC twins, Reliance Industries were among the top losers and Tata Steel, Titan and Asian Paints were among the top gainers

Report contains recommendations pertaining to five financial years, 2021-22 to 2025-26; it'll be submitted to President, Prime Minister on November 9

Crop and tractor loans come under agriculture and allied activities loans and are not part of the eight segments or classes eligible under the scheme

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

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das at an event in July had advised that banks need to raise capital on anticipatory basis to build up adequate capital buffers to mitigate risks arising out of coronavirus outbreak

It would be naive to expect agriculture providing jobs to about 43% of the workforce and sustaining 70% of the population living in rural India with a meagre share of 14.5% in national income (GDP) to drive growth, especially when it is going through unprecedented job and income loss

Overseas, Asian equities and the US futures were on course for their worst week in more than two months, following sharp declines on Wall Street overnight as investors awaited US jobs data

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Kotak Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC, SBI, ICICI Bank were among the top losers on BSE. On the ohter hand, Maruti, Asian Paints and Sun Pharma were the only gainers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been instructing banks to increase lending, but bankers say they are choosing to be cautious

Data from satellite images would help ICICI Bank cut costs and reduce the time taken to give out loans, said Executive Director Anup Bagchi

The pandemic is set to push the auto industry back by over a decade. Partial recovery in June and July has raised hopes, but will it sustain?

PM Modi launched the facility through video-conferencing to startups, agri-entrepreneurs, agri-tech players, and farmer groups for post-harvest management and fostering farm assets