Weather watchers said it can't be known till May whether El Nio will impact the monsoon or not.

Almost 3.3 million houses awaiting completion under the IAY will be built by the end of 2016-17.

It will get colder in the next 2, 3 days.

Aayog feels expansion of the lowest base will enable more people to pay taxes.

'The service charge is given to the employees as a part of their salary. Now, employees have been calling to negotiate their salaries to balance the loss that they will face personally. In which case, we won't be able to retain some of them.'

As many as 4,291 farmers in Maharashtra killed themselves in 2015 topping the list of states with the highest number of suicides in the farm sector followed by Karnataka (1,559), Telangana (1,400), Madhya Pradesh (1,290), Chhattisgarh (954), and Andhra Pradesh (916).

Initiatives to convince citizens to go cashless.

Revised draft model Bill clearly says an agriculturist for the purpose of agriculture won't be liable for registration under GST.

Experts claim impact of breather limited as most hybrid vegetable seeds are sold by private companies.

The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.

The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.

Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast

Direct sellers have to comply with various conditions to operate as legitimate players in the country.

The textiles sector is India's largest organised employer and critical for the prime minister's dream of creating jobs

Skymet said September would be much better and it expects it to end at 111 per cent of the LPA

In the global markets, pulses prices have slumped because of a bumper harvest.

Agriculture ministry to prepare blueprint for purchasing onions directly from farmers and the expenditure on damages would be shared equally between the Centre and state governments.

Good monsoon is likely to create more jobs in the agriculture sector, which in turn could save the exchequer around Rs 10,000 crore

This could have huge implications for agriculture, food prices, supply and overall economic growth of the country

The rains in July, the most crucial month for sowing of kharif crops, were 6.6 per cent more than normal.