While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...

With the World Bank giving a call to shift focus on agriculture to tackle food crisis, data gleaned from Punjab's villages only add to its urgency.

While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

Even as Kashmir loses thousands of hectares of its agricultural land to urbanisation...

Early this week, Fieldfresh, an initiative of Bharti-Rothschild, dispatched a consignment of baby corns to London. In 2008, the firm had exported 200 million tonnes (MT) of vegetables to the European markets...

As urbanisation feasts on Dehradun''s famed rice, its cultivation moves out of the traditional zones of Majra and Niranjanpur to elsewhere in Uttarakhand. The government, too, admits as much in the Assembly....

The long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat....

Across the Malihabad town of Uttar Pradesh, growers are joyously looking at their blooming trees. This year has seen a record flowering and the blooms are so far not even infested with pests.

Kerala, Karnataka may have banned the popular insecticide, but experts warn that farmers may have only more hazardous and more expensive options to choose from

Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season

Prices too low, middlemen eating up profits, say farmers; govt blames it on glut

Weightiest boll comes up by accident, gene source for strongest fibre by design, both at Nagpur''s cotton research institute

And farmers still managed good prices in the beginning because of better marketing, though these eventually did drop in the glut.

Burning crop residue after harvest on the field itself is common in Madhya Pradesh. One may not always get to see the flames

Private players return for wheat, govt misses procurement target but says happy farmers earned

The US dollar strengthened modestly against its major rivals in late trading on Tuesday amid the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting.

The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime.

Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has quit as reports of a domestic violence incident from nearly nine years ago surfaced marring his chances for confirmation even as Washington readies for a possible confrontation with Iran.

Following Pakistan's dismal performance in the ongoing World Cup so far, the country's former skipper Intikhab Alam has questioned the presence of chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq in England and said it was the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) mistake to allow him to stay in England at its expense.

Valuations still not fair, given uncertainty over revenues

PMI's services did contract, with trade, hospitality coming to a grinding halt, though the pace of fall in the index was not as steep as that of the core sector

The first day impact has been more on the pharma especially in the wake of 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.'s facility in Ahmedabad testing positive for COVID-19

Beauty products segment witnesses 0.8% decline in March, says Nielsen

An anaesthetist in the city said he had to postpone two surgeries on Friday as he couldn’t prescribe Covid-19 tests after the BMC order late on Thursday barring tests except when approved by the civic health officer. “Testing on a private doctor’s prescription is currently not permitted,” said a message from one of the private labs to a doctor. “If physicians, surgeons cannot advise a test, what is the point of coercing us to open clinics and hospitals?” said a Goregaon-based doctor.

In a bid to tackle the spread of coronavirus in a more effective manner, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has put additional commissioners in charge of seven zones in the city. As per the order, seven additional commissioners will work towards improving the double rate of positive cases from 10 days to 20 days by May 17.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

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Restrictions applied to most of the country after one-day voluntary curfew

Migrant workers head home in battle to survive after losing jobs 

Demonstrations at a Mumbai railway station as people demand to return to their homes

Limited manufacturing and agricultural work to resume after April 20

Industry groups warn strict conditions have discouraged many companies from resuming operations

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