West Bengal Government launched a crop insurance scheme, Bangla Shashya Bima (BSB). The reason for the launch of 2019 'Kharif' season is to protect farmers from losses due to natural disasters. Their main aim is to provide a steady income in case of unstable market prices.  The scheme ...

India has emerged as a digitally empowered nation. But more needs to be done to transform everyday lives. Since its launch in 2015 by PM Narendra Modi, the Digital India initiative has achieved many milestones. Digital India was launched with an objective of connecting rural areas with ...

According to the survey, "The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2017-18" which is conducted by National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO). The huge variations among the states in terms of the unemployment rate.  The overall unemployment rate is around 6.1. Nagaland has the highest ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump "aired" their concerns over the bilateral trade disputes and agreed for an early meeting of their commerce ministers to sort out the issues, a day after the US leader demanded withdrawal of the "very high" tariffs levied by India on American ...

India's leading cryptocurrency exchange Koinex announced on Thursday that it was shutting its operations from 2 pm on June 27, blaming the decision on the 'uncertainty and disruption' in the crypto-sphere in India. In a blogpost, Koinex Founder Rahul Raj announced the digital assets company's ...

The Tropics are a region of the Earth, roughly defined as the area between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn. Although topography and other factors contribute to climatic variation, tropical locations are typically warm and experience little seasonal change in day-to-day ...

The new cost of living survey of 2019 is out and according to the list Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive city for expats to live in, for the second consecutive year. According to the Mercer survey, the city that made to the second position is Tokyo, Japan, followed by Singapore, Seoul in ...

Sarada Kumar Hota, managing director (MD) and chief executive officer of Can Fin Homes has been appointed as the MD of National Housing Bank. Prior to this, Hota has served as the managing director of Can Fin Homes, a subsidiary of Canara Bank. His appointment comes nearly nine months after ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is among the 100 most influential women driving the UK-India relationship forward alongside one of Britain’s senior-most Cabinet ministers Penny Mordaunt. The ‘100 Most Influential in UK-India Relations: Celebrating Women’ list was launched by UK Home ...

Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has elected Sharad Kumar Saraf as its new president. Saraf will succeed renowned exporter Ganesh. Sharad Kumar:  Saraf in his earlier stints at FIEO has served twice as vice-president and four times as regional chairman. He is chairman and ...

More than the pride involved in hosting the triennial International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) congress here from June 26 for the first time in Asia, 32nd one over all, Telangana is taking the event as an opportunity to earn reputation as an emerging hub in the global seed arena and also to ...

Power distribution company BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has tied up with several private organisations to launch a slew of initiatives including a ‘behavioural energy saving app’ to reduce electricity consumption. The app -- Susthome -- developed by BYPL and TERI to bring about a behavioural ...