More economists slashed their economic forecasts for India with Citigroup and CLSA cutting their outlooks for growth to 5.4 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively in the fiscal year ending March, with

What is stopping drought-hit Karnataka from getting additional funds from the Centre under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)? Surprisingly, it is the gram panchayats

Drought-hit states like Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra are facing acute shortage of fodder and have petitioned the Centre to urgently address the issue as it could affect dairy industry.

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A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already crippled by a sharp slowdown in growth, persistent inflation and a politically hamstrung government.

Late on Thursday, New D

In the face of near despair as the two giant reservoirs in state, Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar continue to record nil inflow, there is something to cheer about. Almatti Dam, the first major project

Listing discrepancies in the memorandum submitted by the state government for fiscal aid from the Union government to implement drought relief measures, Union rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh

Tractor maker Mahindra & Mahindra shares fall 1.7 per cent as the growing likelihood of a drought in India threatens to hit rural sales.

Mahindra & Mahindra already saw tractor sales fall 2.4 per cen

The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday sanctioned Rs 480 crore as immediate relief to Gujarat for drinking water in rural areas and co

Monsoon rains will not be enough to save the country from its first drought in three years, the weather office said on Thursday as it forecast that the El Nino weather pattern should reduce rains agai

The drought threatening India due to elusive monsoon rains will make it politically harder for the government to raise prices of subsidised fuel, delaying a reform urgently needed to rein in the count