Nabin Kumar Roy, Chief General Manager, NABARD, emphasised that enhancing farmers access to Kisan Credit Cards remains a priority and calle...

Chouhan said states would have to deliver on commitments made during the conference, including deadlines for Farmer ID generation and other...

Honoured and decorated army veteran who slayed many enemy soldiers singlehandedly, successful movie star to popular songwriter. Though he d...

Odisha's BJD party is planning legal action and public demonstrations against the recently passed Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Bill, whic...

West Bengal plans land law reforms to aid industrial land acquisition. The government seeks to simplify processes for recorded sharecropper...

Fertiliser subsidy is paid to fertiliser companies, which are free to set ‘reasonable’ prices. This must change. With the direct benefit tr...

It is an independent union of agricultural labourers, sharecroppers, marginal farmers and plantation workers.

In a bid to bring unbanked areas under the institutional credit network, the Bengal state government will provide space inside panchayat of...

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s government had earlier been noncommittal on the PM’s farm intervention scheme as well.

NITI Aayog is considering a series of big ticket agriculture reforms that include changes in the fertiliser policy to allow free import of ...

A public viewing and farewell to BB King will take place on Friday in Las Vegas, where he had a home and passed away in his sleep at the ag...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed that the 'anti-people policies' of the UPA compelled her quit the alliance.

Ashok Ghosh, who owns 1.5 bighas said he had never supported the Tata Motors project. "Outsiders had good jobs and not the poor people."

The number of farmers borrowing from moneylenders has risen to levels not seen since independence, despite doubling of agricultural credit ...

Two more farmers on Thursday committed suicide in Orissa, taking the total number of such deaths to nine in the state in the last one month.

Senior BJP leader and deputy chief minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi is again in the eye of a storm. The bataidari (sharecroppers) issue ...

Some sections of the media have been reporting that UPA government is close to finalising a national rehabilitation policy. These reports s...