-Behanbox.com Mumbai: Around 400 metres off the Gujarat state highway near Vautha village, along the snake-like curves of the Sabarmati river, lie nearly a hundred acres of land that government records describe as “non-useful riverside land”. But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind...

-MoneyLife.in While lenders harass individual or small borrowers to the point of even releasing the borrowers’ photos to the press for publishing them, it appears that big corporate defaulters are bestowed with immunity from such humiliation. They are a protected species. In fact, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) even declined to reveal to the Lok Sabha the details of loans written off of major corporates.&NBSp; &NBSp; In a written reply, Dr Bhagwat Karad,...

-ANI/ NDTV.com Earlier this year, the Centre approved further allocation of additional foodgrain to National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (Phase IV) till November.&NBSp; New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that in a bid to bring relief to over 80 crore people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government is running Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana to provide free grains and the scheme has...

-The Telegraph Those who have crossed the maximum advised gap between two doses of Covid vaccines are counted in the list of overdue doses, said another health department official There are more than 19 lakh people in Bengal who have not taken their second doses despite the due dates to take them getting over.&NBSp; Some of them have claimed that they took two doses at separate centres. But the authorities are not asking for...

-PTI/ The Hindu The demands included legal guarantee for MSP, withdrawal of cases against farmers and compensation for those who died during the agitation Terming the repeal of the farm laws in Parliament a victory of the protesters, farmer leaders from Punjab demanded a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) of crops and said an emergency meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha on December 1 will decide their future course of...