The tougher task is to let go of assets. There is no point in keeping assets and denying creditors their dues. Taking more loans to pay the...

The UN Development Programme's administrator, Achim Steiner, has called for action to be taken concerning the debt crisis affecting develop...

MoS for External Affairs Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh said whether it is with India's neighbours under the "Neighbourhood First" policy or wit...

In the IMF's Global Financial Stability Report, the organization more broadly urged policymakers to "act decisively" and target continued e...

The factors of chip shortages, copper/lumber shortages, shortage of labour, clearly point to a classic supply shortage led to price inflati...

At least 12,805 farmers took their lives due to indebtedness and unproductive land

An SC bench said "paying compensation is not the solution to deal with farmers' suicides" as the key reason for these suicides was indebted...

The bench said that agriculture was a state subject and it was upto the state governments also to adopt welfare measures and the Centre can...

SC said the issue of farmers' suicide was of "extreme importance" and paying compensation to the families of such victims "post-facto" was ...

Habib took a dig at detractors of Jawaharlal Nehru saying people whose ideological ancestors had no role in the national movement are tryin...

Crop failure and indebtedness often drive farmers to suicide, but love affairs and dowry dispute are also among the reasons cited in Parlia...

The farm crisis following unseasonal rains dominated the political discourse for weeks with sharp sniping between Congress and Centre.

The survey, carried out by the NSSO, studied assets and debt across India through two visits to more than one lakh households in 2013.

The Euro-zone's need to rescue three of its members (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) with three others smacks of institutionalised incompeten...

To blame rising farmer suicides on factors such as indebtedness and liberalisation misses a major part of the story, but ad hoc solutions o...

Maharashtra heads the death list.

The savings-conscious US consumer can no longer be counted on to drive the global economy and new sources of momentum will have to be found...