New law will make Nigeria’s petroleum industry attractive to investors

Among the main objectives of the Petroleum Industry Act are to define the relationship between the society, investors; create regulatory and …

Has lifting subsidies depressed fertiliser use?

A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.

What's wrong with cheap energy?

Autonomy for Delhi zoo

Promoting agri practices in Punjab for water efficiency, better residue management

New-age machines can help save costs, water & electricity usage as well as combat the problem of stubbles

Investors, insurers ask G20 economies to stop fossil fuel subsidies

The G20 governments were urged to establish a deadline for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies for a steady decline in greenhouse gas emissions

'Luring' migrants to the Capital

The per capita subsidy for Delhi has doubled over the 1970s, greatly encouraging the influx into the city.

Five takeaways from Economic Survey 2016

One of the key findings from this analysis is increasing inequality in income in India

What price subsidies?

Market rights

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North gets soft options on subsidy cuts

Small increase in exports can boost income

Brushing aside environmental costs

‘Rationalising subsidies, improving infrastructure could revive agri-sector’

For every million rupees spent on agricultural research, 328 people are pulled out of poverty. In contrast, the same amount spent on power …

Cloudy days for solar cooker

Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade-old promotion campaign, only a few …

Costly populism

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Water, Marathwada women’s woe: Inclement weather affecting farmers’ mental health, social standing

Market does not support the farmers even if they manage to harvest the crops

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Draft fisheries subsidies agreement will negatively impact developing nations: Experts

Developing nations have some wins at the Ministerial Conference but developed nations benefit most  

State of India’s environment: Why farmers kill themselves

The back of the Indian farmour is against the wall amid rising costs of inputs, climate change-induced risks and faulty market mechanisms

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"Subsidies have to be withdrawn"

A study reveals how subsidies are encouraging farmers to waste water and use land and fertilisers unsustainably.

Lok Sabha passes Aadhaar Bill as a single window to distribute subsidy

Opposition terms move a ‘conspiracy to undermine the Rajya Sabha’

WTO talks heading nowhere? Experts slam text on fisheries subsidies

Expert groups claim that the new draft of the fisheries subsidies favours developed countries and risks the interests of small fishers

What’s derailing growth of solar energy in some US states?

Despite facing widespread opposition from people, Indiana legislators have been trying to slow the growth of solar for years