Economists, CEOs, consultants, sector specialists interpret Nirmala Sitharaman's 'Never-before' Budget

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

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?

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

After the third stimulus package last month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said that the option for another stimulus package has not been closed

Multiple factors led to it: First they were asked to grow paddy to overcome food scarcity; mechanised harvesting left massive residue that takes longer to decompose and then paddy sowing was delayed to conserve water, overshooting residue burning into Delhi's bad winter air days

The government has been under attack for bringing in new farm laws which are aimed at providing marketing freedom to farmers for selling their produce

Farm bill: In the next four days, Congress chief ministers, Pradesh Congress Committee presidents, Congress legislative party leaders along with MPs, MLAs, and senior leaders will walk from the PCC office to Raj Bhavan

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

CWC meeting: Sonia Gandhi said that the Congress party has offered constructive cooperation and suggestions to tackle coronavirus but the government has only implemented them partially and in a miserly way

Corona in India update: Samshi Talab in Mehrauli including A-3 Lake view apartment, Gali number 1 band of Raj Nagar 2 in Dwarka, and house number 15 to 101 in Dayanand Vihar are the latest additions to the list of hotspots in Delhi; Maharashtra now has 6,427 COVID-19 cases

Lockdown in india latest news: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant stated that no new coronavirus cases have been reported in the state since April 3

Lockdown in India latest updates: India reported 1,076 new cases and 32 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country's total number of coronavirus positive cases have risen to 13,835, including 11,616 active cases, 1,766 cured/discharged/migrated and 452 deaths

Travel and aviation will have to wait longer for a respite as coronavirus lockdown extension restricts public movement till May 3; and although granted some leeway, it's still not business as usual for manufacturing and agriculture

All districts, localities, states will be closely monitored on how strictly the norms are being implemented until April 20.

Coronavirus lockdown in India updates: A case has been registered at Bandra Police station under section 143, 147, 149, 186, 188 of Indian Penal Code, read with Section 3 of Epidemic Act, against 800-1000 unidentified people

Lockdown Video Conference: Chief Ministers of Punjab, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Uttarakhand have all agreed for a nationwide lockdown extension

Three quick policy measures can be taken to ensure income and credit flows: direct procurement, direct cash transfers to farmers as well as landless labourers and interest subvention through cash transfers and in KCC mode

There were talks of India having excess inventory of skimmed milk powder (SMP) through the 2018-19 fiscal, as a result of which milk prices had softened and procurement had dipped dramatically

Taxing agricultural income is a politically sensitive issue; successive governments have shown little interest in taking corrective measures even while official reports have repeatedly expressed serious concerns over non-agriculturists abusing the exemption