RBI credit policy today; interest rates unlikely to be lowered

Last Updated: Monday, April 6, 2015, 15:57

Reserve Bank is expected to leave the repo rate unchanged during its annual monetary policy on Tuesday due to increased food prices after unseasonable rains in various parts of the country.

Vegetable prices likely to climb 20-25%: Assocham

Last Updated: Sunday, April 5, 2015, 15:47

Prices of vegetables are likely to jump 20-25 per cent in coming days as untimely rains and hailstorms have damaged crops, says a study.

Modi govt pro-poor, farmers interests will be protected: Paswan

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 17:54

A delegation led by Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday took stock of crops damaged in Haryana by untimely rains and hailstorm.

Unseasonal rains damage 106.73 lakh hectares of rabi crops

Last Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015, 19:50

Unseasonal rains and hailstorms during this month have damaged rabi (winter-sown) crops in 106.73 lakh hectares of area across 14 states as against the earlier estimates of 181 lakh hectares.

Vigilance needed on food inflation: RBI on unseasonal rains

Last Updated: Sunday, March 22, 2015, 15:08

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Sunday said the government and the central bank need to be more vigilant about the food price situation against the backdrop of unseasonal rains damaging some crops.

Unexpected rains pull down peak power deficit to 2.8% in February

Last Updated: Sunday, March 22, 2015, 11:15

Unexpected rains across the country brought down the peak power deficit -- shortfall in electricity supply when the demand is maximum -- to 2.8 per cent last month.

Unseasonal rain adversely affected rabi crop output: Govt

Last Updated: Friday, March 20, 2015, 16:03

In Rabi season of 2014-15 crop year, 535.35 lakh hectares were sown under foodgrains and 79.34 lakh hectares under oilseeds.

Potato production falls by 2.3% in wake of untimely rains

Last Updated: Saturday, November 29, 2014, 01:22

The all India production of potato during 2013-14 has decreased by 2.3 percent in comparison to 2012-13, as per the provisional estimates provided by the states.

Rainy day ahead in Delhi

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 10:27

Delhiites woke up to a cold Wednesday morning with light rain. The minimum temperature was recorded at 12 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season`s average. Met Office has forecast a rainy day ahead.

Super typhoon victims flee again as rains flood southern Philippines

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 15:21

Emergency workers evacuated thousands of people across the southern Philippines on Tuesday, including many already made homeless by a typhoon in November, after three days of rain flooded towns and farmland.

Overnight winter rains lash parts of Rajasthan

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 15:14

Overnight rains lashed parts of Rajasthan throwing life out of gear for locals even as Mount Abu recorded the coldest in the state at 3.6 degrees Celsius.

Rains force Arvind Kejriwal to take shelter in car

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 12:30

Agitating under the open sky, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal along with his ministerial colleague Manish Sisodia was forced to take refuge in his small blue car as the skies opened up Tuesday morning.