On 31 March, Asia's biggest onion market fell silent. The market in Lasangaon in the western Indian state of Maharashtra usually thrums with farmers and traders. But the mostly migrant…
Amid the nationwide lockdown to prevent the global pandemic COVID-19, the government has been taking several measures to give relief to its citizens. When the entire world is suffering from…
The centre has decided to allow procurement of gram (chana) and lentils (masur) in 13 states at minimum support price (MSP) during lockdown without waiting for any formal proposal from…
Farmers can now directly sell their produce to organized retailers such as wallmart instead of going through the yards of agricultural produce market committees during the Covid-19 lockdown. Consumer affairs…
Mohammad Alam is one of thousands of workers standing in a food queue in India's capital, Delhi. The factory where he worked shut down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced…
Domestic sales last month were down also by 54.3 percent at 5,228 units as against 11,431 units in the year-ago period, it said. Like the rest of the auto industry,…
A man gives final touch to the beds in a quarantine centre in Guwahati on March 30, 2020. Closure of all hotels, restaurants and sweetmeat shops besides transportation hit them…
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