Hoping to overcome the villagers' resistance, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited, the nodal body to implement the project, has tweaked its strategy to ensure that the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train is on track for a 2022 launch and is agreeing to many of the conditions.

The superstar had earlier sponsored the repayment of farmer loans in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra's Vidarbha as well.

Citing government officials, a Reuters report claims that the Japan-backed $17 billion project is likely to miss its December deadline to acquire land due to protests by fruit growers in Maharashtra.

With the Cabinet approving the National Policy on Biofuels, there is renewed hope for a cleaner environment in the not-too-distant future.

Speculative buying pushed sugar prices by Rs 200 per quintal at wholesale market in national capital on Friday. According to reports, supply from sugar mills remained thin amid brisk demand.

A day before the Central Government approved a Rs 7,000 crore sugar package to help domestic sugar mills tide over their liquidity crisis, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), the apex industry lobby group, had made a written submission to Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

Singh said greater emphasis is being given to agricultural education, research and extension activities and extension of the facilities for irrigation, low-cost organic farming, crop insurance, national agricultural market, horticulture development and agro forestry remain focus areas.

It's Day 5 of the ongoing nationwide agitation by farmers, and if its runs the planned course till June 10, not only is the supply and price situation of fresh produce likely to worsen but there may also be spill-over effects on dining out.

Close on the heels of the opposition raised by RSS affiliated groups like Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), over 100 civil society groups, including Left leaning trade unions, farmer organizations and trade associations have opposed  Walmart's $16 billion takeover bid for e-commerce firm Flipkart.

The stock is down more than 50% after it hit a record high of 3,000 level on November 13, 2017. The stock has fallen 41.43% in the last one month and since May 26, 2018, it is down 38%.

India is set to announce its quadricycle policy which will bring this new, efficient and cost-effective commuting mode for intra-city movement on to the Indian streets; there's an interesting development in the world of crude oil. Just as American shale oil production starts to flow into the global market, prices are beginning to ease; farmer distress and agitation is taking a turn for the worse with farmers stopping supply of fruits, vegetables and milk. BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey explains this and more on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Fifteen years after the Model Contract Farming Act, the government has again formulated a model law for the states.

As the NDA government enters its final year, there is a long unfinished agenda that it may not be able to implement by 2019.

The problem, as the current set of ministers have found out, is that it is always easy to protest while in Opposition - but not so easy to take steps to cool prices when you are in the government.