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Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers
While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard
To tomato or not to tomato? That is no longer the question
The massive surge in vegetable prices is being blamed on crop damage caused by the recent rains and high fuel prices
35 thousand millionaires have left India since 2014: WB Minister Amit Mitra
Mitra uses data by various financial firms to talk about the growing trend of emigration among India’s wealthy
Assam gov’t announces relief package for defunct paper mills
Package worth Rs 570 crores, plus gov't will take over assets of Nagaon and Cachar paper mills
Southern states suffered higher household indebtedness: Ind-Ra Report
Analysing AIDIS and recent economic data over the last two years, the Ind-Ra encouraged the government to pay more attention to the recovering household economy
Offer better relief package to registered hawkers: Hawkers Union to Maharashtra gov’t
While thanking the government for considering street vendors' concerns during new coronavirus restrictions, Mumbai’s hawkers asked Chief Minister Thackeray to reconsider the relief package.
New MSME Board appoints many non-official members with BJP links
While many BJP ex-MLAs, candidates, Laghu Udyog Bharati members and functionaries, the Union Ministry said that all members had business links
How were Finance Ministry “orders issued by oversight”?
Hours after ‘oversight’, FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces withdrawal of interest rate cut on small savings such as National Savings Certificates and Public Provident Fund
Lakshmi Vilas Bank under the scanner again
Days after merger with DBS Bank India, LVB now under probe by SEBI, RBI
Banks introduce new policies for cash deposit transactions
Private sector lenders have announced convenience fees for transactions carried out during non-working periods.
India’s street vendors are micro-entrepreneurs, yet they struggle for freedom and rights
SabrangIndia talks to legal and social experts to understand what impedes the full effect of the Vendors’ Act.
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