India's inflation between 2010 and 2016 offers a lesson in fiscal discipline. Persistent deficits eroded confidence, leading to high inflat...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay apologized in the Assembly for a minister's remarks. Forest Minister R V Ranjith Kumar omitted tradi...

In a major relief for farmers, Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay declared an extensive expansion of farm loan waivers, including f...

Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister announced expanded farm loan waivers on Monday. Cooperative farm loans up to seventy-five thousand rupees recei...

Farmers protesting the India-US trade deal are camped at the Khanauri border. Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta Sidhupur chief Jagjit Singh Dallew...

A peasants' group alleges devastating floods in Assam are man-made. They claim illegal mining in bordering regions created artificial reser...

Sharad Pawar deflected speculation about his party's potential split and future alliances. Supriya Sule clarified that no official discussi...

Maharashtra's Chief Minister announced a Rs 48,000 crore waiver for farmer electricity dues. This move facilitates new agricultural power c...

The Telangana government has announced a farm loan waiver of up to Rs 2 lakh, benefiting nearly 40 lakh farmers at a cost of around Rs 31,0...

Around 58 lakh farmers are currently covered under the scheme, the state government said during the Maharashtra Assembly's monsoon session ...

The new round of sops from Kumaraswamy covers loans borrowed from cooperative banks of up to Rs 1 lakh, as of July 10, 2018.

The farm loan waiver will limit the State’s ability to rein in expenditure and achieve higher surplus in its revenue account, it said.

Gautam, a 1987 batch IAS officer, has now been posted as Principal Secretary, Accounts and Treasury, in Finance department, a GAD official ...

Acharya was delivering closing remarks at a RBI organised seminar titled ‘Agriculture Debt Waiver – Efficacy and Limitations’ in Mumbai, a ...

Increasing trends of states doling out farm loan waivers could reduce aggregate demand in the economy by as much as 0.7 per cent.

However, the Centre informed Parliament that there is a facility has been put in place for farmers to avail concessional debt.

Farmers in the state are seeking complete loan waiver. They have criticised the proposed Rs1-lakh limit, saying state needs to do more as m...