New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) The country's wheat production is likely to touch a record 111.32 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June), the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. Besides wheat, record production is estimated for rice, pulses, maize, oilseeds and sugarcane as well, it added. The overall foodgrain production too is estimated at [...]
Mumbai, Feb 16 (PTI) The manufacturing sector will need continued policy support for smoother and faster recovery to attain the long-term trend path, according to a Reserve Bank article. Although the sector may soon attain its pre-COVID level, the process of attaining the long-term trend levels may take some time, said the article 'Impact of [...]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) The country's wheat production is projected to be a record 111.32 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June), the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. Production of wheat, the main rabi crop, stood at 109.59 million tonnes in the previous 2020-21 crop year. Releasing the second advance production estimate, the [...]
Mumbai, Feb 16 (PTI) World-renowned author and public intellectual Yuval Noah Harari has warned of the perils of too-much dependence on data-driven technologies because that can result in data colonialism, which will lead to creation of tyrant governments and monopolistic corporations. The Israeli writer, who shot to instant global fame with his three bestsellers -- [...]
Kolkata, Feb 16 (PTI) The eight districts of north Bengal have the potential to attract investments worth Rs 11000 crore in the next three to five years, the state government said in a statement on Wednesday.The employment potential of the region during the same period will be around 71,000, it said.The state government held a [...]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) The income tax department on Wednesday said more than 4.50 crore tax returns have been processed so far, of the total 6.26 crore ITR filed for the financial year 2020-21. Further, more than 5.41 crore income tax returns (ITRs) filed have been verified and 1.58 crore refunds amounting to Rs [...]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) Gems and jewellery exports rose by 6.5 per cent to USD 32.37 billion during April-January this fiscal, industry body GJEPC said on Wednesday. The exports stood at USD 30.40 billion in the same period of the previous year. The top 10 export destinations include the UAE (41.50 per cent), Belgium [...]
The Karnataka bench of AAR has ruled that income earned from providing guest lectures will attract 18 per cent GST, The applicant, Sairam Gopalkrishna Bhat, had approached the Authority for Advance Ruling seeking clarity on whether the income earned from conducting guest lectures, amounts to or results in a supply of taxable services. While passing [...]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) State-owned GAIL India Ltd plans to lay a pipeline to Srinagar to take the environmentally friendly natural gas to the Kashmir Valley as it doubles down on efforts to expand infrastructure to helm the government vision of a gas-based economy, its chairman and managing director Manoj Jain said. GAIL will [...]
Panaji, Feb 16 (PTI) Only one-fifth of Assembly constituencies in Goa exhibited high and medium change in the nightlights radiance during pandemic times of 2019-20, indicating significant impact on economic activities, according to a study. The study was conducted by Bharati Institute of Public Policy (BIPP) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. It [...]
