Congress seeks blanket farm loan waiver; says government has money for big projects but not for farmersSenior Congress leaders in Maharashtra criticized the Mahayuti government. They alleged betrayal of farmers and demanded immediate loan wai...
14 Jun, 2025, 06.00 PM IST
MVA readies Maharashtra handouts to counter Mahayuti freebiesThe Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra plans to introduce welfarist schemes in its assembly election manifesto. These plans include pay...
16 Oct, 2024, 11.58 PM IST
If voted to power, INDIA bloc to be voice of farmers, Rahul Gandhi; reiterates caste census demandThe Lok Sabha member from Wayanad also reiterated the Congress' promise of a legal guarantee to minimum support price (MSP) as per the Swam...
15 Mar, 2024, 04.00 PM IST
PM Modi assures Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa of fertiliser supplies amid worsening food shortagesSri Lanka is aiming to boost its agriculture sector to avoid any disruption in the agriculture market following the drop in paddy cultivati...
02 Jun, 2022, 02.28 PM IST
India assures Sri Lanka of fertiliser supplies to avoid food shortagesThe Sri Lankan government banned chemical fertilisers last year as part of a phased transition towards organic agriculture. The dearth of a...
02 Jun, 2022, 01.27 PM IST
'We are going to die': Food shortages add to Sri Lanka's woes"While there may not be time to obtain fertiliser for this Yala (May-August) season, steps are being taken to ensure adequate stocks for th...
20 May, 2022, 11.55 AM IST
MVA govt turned crisis into opportunity: CM Thackeray on completing 2 yrs in officeIn a statement to mark the completion of his two years in office, Thackeray (61), who is recuperating in a private hospital after a spine s...
28 Nov, 2021, 11.08 AM IST
Maharashtra government made 29.50 lakh farmers debt-free: CM Uddhav ThackerayThackeray was speaking after hoisting the national flag at Mantralaya (state secretariat) in south Mumbai on the occasion of 74th Independe...
15 Aug, 2020, 01.30 PM IST
Sharad Pawar seeks PM Modi’s intervention for real estate relief measuresThe former union minister also tweeted the same stating that amidst the unprecedented pandemic covid-19 and subsequent nationwide lockdown,...
28 May, 2020, 10.48 PM IST
Digital platform helps Maharashtra save Rs 12,000 crore in farm loan waiver: Devendra FadnavisThe state had, in June 2017, announced a farm loan waiver worth Rs 34,022 crore amid rising incidents of farmer suicides due to crop failur...
13 Jan, 2019, 08.28 PM IST
Farmers' agitation hits several statesFarmer organisations also called for boycott of mandis or wholesale markets in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh an...
01 Jun, 2018, 11.55 PM IST
Farmers at several places in Punjab, Haryana stop selling vegetables, milkThe decision to stop supplies starting from June 1 till June 10 was taken by farmers under the banner of Kisan Ekta Manch and Rashtriya Kis...
01 Jun, 2018, 04.21 PM IST
Maharashtra government looking to borrow loans at 4 per cent interestThe salary amount that the state government pays to its employees has risen to Rs 65,000 crore in 2015 from Rs 19,000 crore in 2005.
28 Oct, 2015, 11.07 AM IST
Lanco Infratech hopeful, looks to gain from power assets auctionOptimism stems from hopes that the government will give preference to power firms in the re-auction, and it will stand to benefit from this...
02 Oct, 2014, 04.04 AM IST
Dabhol power project on brink of turning into bad debtThe project has been lying idle since Dec as gas supply has come to a halt, resulting in no revenues to pay monthly installments on bank lo...
16 Jul, 2014, 11.01 AM IST
- SC slams Vilasrao for shielding MLA’s moneylender kin
The SC on Tuesday said Deshmukh had abused his position to prevent the police from registering a criminal case against a Congress MLA’s mon...
15 Dec, 2010, 06.58 AM IST
- Govt-Gandhi row hits Positra SEZ
Positra in Gujarat remains what it used to be: barren or marshy land. Four years after India’s first greenfield special economic zone (SEZ)...
07 Aug, 2003, 02.33 AM IST