New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh has said that a new Agriculture Insurance Scheme (Krushi Bima Yojana) would be brought as the present scheme is not proving much beneficial to the farmers while facing wrath of natural calamities.

New Delhi: Toll collection as per the concessionary agreement already entered for Delhi Jaipur Highway cannot be annulled as there could be litigation.

New Delhi: The international crude oil price went up to US$111.94 per barrel on June 19. This was higher than the price of US$111.25 per bbl on previous publishing day of June 18.

New Delhi: Preliminary reports of sowing of kharif crops have been received from States. Kharif sowing area has crosses 95 lakh hectare.

New Delhi: The international crude oil price went up to US$111.25 per barrel on June 18. This was higher than the price of US$110.31 per bbl on previous publishing day of June 17.

New Delhi: Addressing a rally of electric rikshaw pullers in New Delhi, minister for Road transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari announced some important policy decisions including removing the rickshaws which run with power below 650 watts from the preview of the Motor Vehicles Act.

New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications & IT, Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the moral of the Department was not in happy situation because of this being in news for wrong reasons in the past.

New Delhi: The international crude oil price went down to US$110.31 per barrel on June 17. This was lower than the price of US$110.42 per bbl on previous publishing day of June 16.

New Delhi: The international crude oil price went down to US$110.42 per barrel on June 16. This was lower than the price of US$110.54 per bbl on previous publishing day of June 13.

New Delhi: The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 6.01% for the month of May, 2014 (over May,2013) as compared to 5.20% for the previous month and 4.58% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was 0.78% compared to a build up rate of 0.76% in the corresponding period of the previous year.