Farmers protest: Farmers in India are demanding that minimum support prices (MSPs) be codified as a legal right, as they fear that the gove...

The BJP has been critical of the Congress government, helmed by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, citing alleged scams and the involvement of ...

Sake Bharathi, a young woman farmworker from Andhra Pradesh has completed a PhD in Chemistry despite facing challenges such as limited acce...

The National Overseas Scholarship is a government scholarship offered to low-income students from various categories for pursuing their Mas...

In forcing farm package down the throat of farmers, Modi has made it impossible for better-conceived reforms to have a chance.

A new bargain with farmers is needed for India to have a shot at reclaiming past glory. In 1750, the Mughal Empire accounted for about a qu...

Putting so much water into rice grains and swelling cotton bolls seems a criminal waste of a precious resource.

Modi dealt Gandhi’s Congress its worst ever defeat in 2014 after India’s rural wages collapsed amid a slowdown in the broader economy.

The budget includes big announcements such as a major income support scheme for farmers and a new pension program for workers.

One single big negative factor has kept India’s finances essentially unchanged from 2012. What’s more, the problem is likely to get even wo...

Four decades ago, in 1971-72, 60% of the power was provided by humans and animals - 15% by farm labourers and 45% by animals.

The government is working on a new index based on the consumption pattern of rural landless labour to fix wages under MGNREGA.

Due to iron ore scarcity, steel makers have begun pruning capacities and in some cases have also been shutting down plants.

The SC today issued notice to INLD leader Ajay Chautala among others on an appeal by Mukesh Ambani group's Reliance Ventures seeking transf...