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Consumer panel to ensure GST rate-cuts reach buyers

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has been mandated to ensure that businesses pass on the full benefits of a reduced GST to buyers, and violators could be charged... Read More


EPFO subscribers can now access all services with a single log-in, says Minister

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Subscribers of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), the retirement-savings manager, can now access all services through a single log in and steps for approving emp... Read More


Extensive damages to crops in various states stoke fears of inflation

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Torrential rains have battered summer-planted crops in key food-bowl states, especially in the northern and central plains, including paddy, cotton, gram and soyabean, said offi... Read More


India's looming cotton crisis deepens

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- The current summer-sown season will be his last tryst with cotton, a crop that once brought prosperity in his entire village, said Kailash Rao Kadam, a 55-year-old grower from we... Read More


Veggies affordable despite rains

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Prices of common vegetables, which typically fan inflation during the monsoon months, have eased to their lowest levels in three years on account of higher output, helping to kee... Read More


From large exporter to net importer: India's looming cotton crisis

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- The current summer-sown season will be his last tryst with cotton, a crop that once brought prosperity in his entire village, said Kailash Rao Kadam, a 55-year-old grower from we... Read More


From large exporter to net importer: India's looming cotton crisis

India, Sept. 8 -- The current summer-sown season will be his last tryst with cotton, a crop that once brought prosperity in his entire village, said Kailash Rao Kadam, a 55-year-old grower from wester... Read More


GST slash to lower agri costs, spur mechanisation

New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- The Goods and Services Tax on most agricultural inputs - from tractors to sprinklers - now fall in the lowest rate slab of 5% from as high as 18% earlier, a move that will push d... Read More


Crop damage fuels food price volatility

New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Torrential rains across key food-bowl states, including in Punjab, have inundated thousands of hectares of farmland, destroying crops, some weeks away from harvest. Rains disrupt... Read More


Amid Trump's tariffs, Centre to ramp up MSP cotton buys to shield farmers

India, Sept. 3 -- The Centre will ramp up purchases of cotton at federally-fixed minimum support prices or MSP to cushion farmers from falling local rates, following the government's decision to waive... Read More