At a time when a number of public private partnership (PPP) projects are in trouble, the ministry of finance has pitched for allowing flexibility so that a contract can be withdrawn and put up for rebid when a private party underperforms

Reason for wide band is wide amount of uncertainty that prevails in both the Indian economy as well as the external world

The pre-Budget Economic Survey for 2012-13, tabled in Parliament today, has exuded confidence that the Indian economy would bounce back to achieve higher growth of around 6.1 to 6.7%, up from the advance estimates of 5% economic growth in the ...

Prudent policy support from fiscal side and in turn monetary policy could leading to a virtuous cycle of recovery

Chief Economic Advisor says we need to be sensible rather than flashy, over-the-top hits

Curb inflation, offer products such as inflation-indexed bonds, expand financial inclusion, improve access to financial products, says Survey

Madras HC ordered the closure of liquor shops noting that there were huge crowds and no social distancing was being maintained by tipplers, however, doorstep delivery through online mode was allowed

For a state that has resolutely led the country''s farm pack in terms of growth and reform, Punjab surprisingly refuses...

As reports of hailstorm-induced crop destruction pour in from various parts of Punjab and district heads prepare to assess the damage...

The state Government is pleased at the production, the farmer with his cheques and transporters with their business.

When the State Bank of India issued a circular instructing its branches to suspend loans for purchase of farm equipment...

You could say it is a summer of education for the farmers in Gujarat. But there are no boring classes in hot, windless rooms.

It''s a story of one crop''s gain being another crop''s loss. In Punjab''s Malwa region, the traditional cotton crop is set to lose its hectarage...

All''s not well with the horticulture industry in Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the state Government claims to have spent Rs 88 crore...

Uttar Pradesh Government''s idea to introduce mentha (mint) -one of the most popular cash crops among farmers these...

Grapes have lost their allure for the farmers of Bathinda in Punjab, a region that is home to around 70 per cent...

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

Tomato and capsicum growers of Himachal Pradesh have lost some 40 to 60 per cent of their yield to fungal diseases so...

For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...

In a situation mirroring the change in the national economy, the tertiary sector in Jammu and Kashmir is fast threatening to overtake the primary sector.

Two months ago, Kailash Thate, a young man with 10 acres of farmland close to the Ujjani dam, set up an agro-processing unit to extract fibres...

One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...

Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.

"These machines have become all the more significant with the government declaring support price on the basis of parameters like staple length and micronaire value"

Come December and a rich hue of orange lights up the Punjab villages from Hoshiarpur in the north to the Abohar-Ferozepur belt in the south.

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...

It turned out to be a prosperous 2008 for Punjab farmers as they reaped rich dividends from the bumper wheat and paddy crops. The plentiful season brought some cheer for the state Government as well with Punjab farmers

Even as Punjab struggles to shrug off the tag of a state with the highest use of pesticides in the country, it is faced with another problem...

After more than a decade of hectic efforts and numerous trials, scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture.

A warm winter, overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices, all''s not well with Punjab''s wheat crop this year.

Call it the paradox of timing clear skies when the farmers looked up for rains and it poured when they wanted the sun....

Incessant rains in Kashmir have resulted in a dip in day temperatures something which will not augur well for fruit trees.

In an attempt to combat the problem of shrinking farm labour availability, the worse of which is felt during the paddy season...

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

While a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot.

The G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar, along with some other premier institutions...

Tomato and capsicum crops grown in the mid-hills of the state are increasingly being lost to collar rot and leaf blight diseases.

After slipping into the league of least-growing states in agriculture, Punjab has made a turnaround in the last two years....

The Saurashtra Kutch region, popularly known as India''s groundnut bowl, is threatening to fall off the agricultural map.

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful "invasive weeds" which made their...

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

While the government is looking to offset the losses in Kharif production on account of the drought with an increase in productivity levels and area...

The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

While other states are giving out distress signals of foodgrain scarcity, triggered by drought and flood fury, Punjab is not only looking at a good harvest but also hoping to gain from this adversity....

Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year.

What was once an arid land, now wears a bright orange hue. From Punjab''s belt bordering Rajasthan Abohar in Ferozepur, Muktsar and Bhatinda...

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

After Amritsar successfully began cultivating early crops of vegetables using tunnel technology a few years ago, Jalandhar, too, has decided to follow suit....

The diversification stride in the country''s granary state has reached banana groves. The baby step was taken in 2005 in a small village...

Precision farming practice is scaling new heights in Punjab with net house farming of vegetables picking up not only amongst...