Creative Bharat
New Delhi, The Centre on Friday reduced the basic custom duty on crude palm oil, crude soyabean oil and crude sunflower oil to 10 per cent, a move aimed at bringing down the retail prices of cooking oils and protecting domestic processors. Earlier, the duty on these three crude edible oils was 20 per cent. […]
Ranchi, The Jharkhand government on Friday appealed to the Sixteenth Finance Commission to raise the vertical devolution of central taxes from the existing 41 per cent to 50 per cent. A finance commission team, headed by its chairman Dr Arvind Panagariya, held discussions with the state government. Jharkhand Finance Minister Radhakrishna Kishore and Chief Secretary […]
India imported 8.24 lakh tonnes (lt) of RBD palmolein between October 2024 and February 2025, up 80 per cent from 4.58 lt imported between June and September 2024 | Photo Credit: REUTERS Indian Vegetable Oil Producers’ Association (IVPA) has urged the Government to raise the net effective duty differential between crude and refined edible oils […]
The Indian Vegetable Oil Producers’ Association (IVPA) has asked the government to implement the Price Deficiency Payment Scheme (PDPS) as envisaged under the Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) to secure remunerative prices for farmers and to facilitate steady supply of oilseeds to domestic oil mills. Welcoming the decision of the Cabinet Committee on […]
The government on Wednesday raised the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy by 3 per cent to ₹2,369 per quintal for the 2025-26 kharif marketing season. A decision in this regard was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The support price for common and A grade […]
File picture: Women farmers sow paddy in a field in Budgam. | Photo Credit: ANI Continuing the same level of increase for the second consecutive year in the third term, the Indian government has increased the minimum support prices (MSPs) of kharif crops for the 2025-26 season beginning July to between 1 per cent and […]
The Centre has clamped wheat stock limit on retailers, wholesalers, traders, stockists and processors, prescribing specific quantity for each category while asking them to dispose of any additional quantity in their possession above the prescribed limit within next 15 days. The decision has come after wheat procurement almost ended with the government purchasing 29.82 million […]
Aimed at benefiting all countries in the tropical region, India has become the first country globally to develop a forecasting system — named the Bharat Forecast System (BFS) — that can predict weather with greater accuracy and detail, down to the village level in common parlance. The system has improved prediction skill by up to […]
The announcement was made by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on International Tea Day, marking a move to bring parity with private garden wages in the Brahmaputra Valley | Photo Credit: ANI The Assam government has announced an increase in the daily wages for workers in state-run tea gardens to ₹250 from ₹220, effective October […]
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and its foreign partners have moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s February ruling quashing an arbitral award in their favour in the dispute with the Centre’s $1.7 billion claim over alleged siphoning of gas from a Krishan=Godavari field off the Andhra coast.RIL filed the lead petition […]
