The rules have been amended to provide banking licences on tap. But no licence for a universal bank has been issued since these were framed...

Modi govt in May unveiled a Rs 21 lakh crore package to support the economy, including easing access to credit for small businesses and off...

Addressing an event in Mumbai in the morning, Naidu said seeking loan waivers had become a "fashion" now but it was not the final solution ...

Allocation on Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana remains frozen at Rs 19,000 crore, as was last year.

Kejriwal today said, accusing the Narendra Modi government of "cheating" them while questioning the black money amnesty scheme.

Jitan Ram Manjhi defended his government saying the delay in paddy procurement was due to bad weather condition which has turned the produc...

At the initiative of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, a first ever four-day Progressive Punjab Agriculture Summit (PPAS) kicked o...

Coming in support of financially stressed Cooperative Banks and Regional Rural Banks, Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged NABARD to reduce rate...

Govt should ease the rules on foreign investment in wholesale trade.

The new UPA government is preparing to go, later this fiscal, where no previous government has dared venture in the area of fertiliser subs...

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Cheap bank finance may be fuelling inflation in India’s rice export market.

Govt considering Left’s proposal for levying cess on organised players to provide cheaper credit to small retailers.

Agri experts who met finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday have urged the government to initiate measures that would step up investment ...

Indian Bank on Monday announced it will provide short term credit to farmers at a concessional interest rate of 7 per cent per annum.

Nabard plans to raise around Rs 11,000-12,000 crore from the market in the current fiscal.

In an apparent bid to woo the farmers in an election year, government today announced a massive Rs 50,000 crore, three-year programme to bu...