Most women are plagued with the malady of ‘terminal niceness’.Unfortunately, many women are inherently programmed to be ‘people pleasers’ - Stop trying to please everyone

Reforms, competition in distribution and ending coal monopoly are the only antidotes to power failures - No Reform, No Power

Economy : Adverse weather events around the world, such as floods in China, the changing pattern of the monsoons in India, devastating drought in the United States and the resulting damage to local, national and regional economies, are stark reminders that climate change is not a fringe concern of environmentalists, but an issue of profound importance for economic development - Warming signs for the economy

Its economy needs radical re-engineering on a par with its original transformation three decades ago - The weakening of China’s four pillars

Economy : The threat of the ongoing power crisis degenerating into a law and order problem has brought into focus the handling of energy management by the power utilities as well as the government - Groping in the dark to manage power crisis

The electricity deficit is the worst of the multiple deficits plaguing the Indian economy today - The power grid knockout

Incentivising fund managers will help but may not be sufficient to encourage investors to part with their nest eggs - Mutual funds: Investors still matter

On a Planet that's warming up fast,we can't live without AC's,but can't live with them either - The Cost of Staying Cool

Economy : Sure, the rains are picking up, but droughts will strike again. How the govt can boost incomes of farm help to enable them to face a drought better - Drought-Proofing Farm Labourers

The Banking Sector - STATSGURU

Science and Technology : Technological skills and aptitude are key aspects that companies look for while recruiting, say experts - ‘IT must be replaced with Business Technology’

Economy : The listing of the Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill for discussion and adoption in the current session of Parliament is a welcome step - Where the mind should have no fear

India has about 300 TV News Channels and Counting.Most of them are run by peoples with  interests rather than new-real estates,Chit funds,politics, Ponzi Schemes - WE ALSO MAKE  TV NEWS

Government to have public-private partnerships with farmers for agri business companies - Small farmers Inc

Economy : In a poll of 370 gender experts on how well women fared in G20 countries (g20women.trust.org.), India was ranked the worst country to be a woman while Canada was the best - No country for young women

Health - An apple a day keeps high Cholesterol at  Bay

Inflammable pine needles that caused forest fires are now being used as bio fuel,giving Himachal Pradesh Villages a Source of income - Best of Waste:Pine needles boost rural economy

The global savings glut will end and central banks will learn they must tolerate high inflation - Low rates worldwide cannot last

Economy : The State Government conferred the best organic farmer award on him - School drop-out helps preserve traditional paddy seeds

Socio Economy : India has some of the best quaternary and tertiary care in the world and is gradually acquiring a name for itself even in the field of ‘medical tourism - The Lack of Primary Healthcare

World commodity prices might be declining. This is good news for India, and Indian equities in particular - Is the commodity boom ending?

Economy : A recent amendment to the Right to Education Act legitimising home-schooling may lead to children with disabilities being “pushed out” of the system - Don’t disable her right to go to school

Trigger from regulatory action, rain revival; however, most futures still trading at discount to spot prices - Agri futures fall up to 20% in a week

THE INDEX of industrial production - STATSGURU

Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that the majorityof rice varieties are not singularly responsiblefor causing diabetes - Rice to the rescue

Inflows from Almatti and Narayanpur in Karnataka to major reservoirs have begun - Agriculture operations pick up in Prakasam

Science & Technology : The panels produce enough power to run a 12.5 HP motor all through the day - Harnessing solar energy to run a 3-phase AC pump

Economy : Rural development minister says more interactions on extensively discussed bill unnecessary - REVISED LAND ACQUISITON BILL

For one, Prices must Communicate to Customers the actual cost of energy at the time of Consumption - Coming out of the Dark

Corruption will continue till the country's industrialization is complete - India, in transition and corrupt

Research has proved that fun and humour at the workplace is essential to balance the mind, body, and spirit - Use humour to increase productivity

Expectations for growth and interest rate cuts have been revised downwards, bur not for the rupee - The expectations downshift

We cannot allow state utilities to crumble under losses but ‘smart’ subsidies are fundamental to making farming viable - Should power subsidies to farmers be scrapped?

 Retirement Investments Country Wise - Kelkar asked to Chalk out fiscal Consolidation Road map

Economy : There is a constitutional commitment. There are central and state policies. There are schools, teachers and welfare schemes. But even today, six decades post-Independence, meaningful education remains an elusive dream for several children in the country - Education for all: waking up to an elusive dream

Economy : Cutting input subsidies in agriculture, getting incentive structures right and declaring organised retail as a priority sector will boost private and public investment - Switch from Farm Subsidy to Investment

Economy - Robust growth in sales and profits has helped them grow the combined market cap by 92 per cent to ~17 lakh crore during FY08-12 - 8 sectors double shareholders’ wealth in 4 yrs

Increase in Minimum Support Price - High returns on produce push up private investment in farm sector

Kharif and rabi crops to be affected; inflation to hit double digits - Agri commodity futures hot up

Science & Tech : Young Drivers of the Renewable Energy Bandwagon - NATURE POWER

EGoM announces Rs.480 crore package for drought relief in Gujarat - A third of the country facesdrought-like scenario: IMD

Management institutes have to rise to the challenge of teaching how to run service-centered businesses - Back to service school

Economy : When monsoon and crop failure hits hard the village economy, livestock farming comes to its rescue - Livestock farming best bet for ryots

Agriculture : Study identifies reasons for low agriculture production - Study identifies reasons for low agriculture production

Schience & Tech : The grid collapse is a symptom of serious sickness in the power sector caused by deficient capacity, inefficient transmission and distribution networks, state-owned utilities that are close to bankruptcy and a government that is simply not able to get its policy act together - For India, two days in Bharat

Economy : Over the past decade, the proportion of the world’s children affected by malnutrition has not improved as much as gains seen in under-five mortality - Global healthcare gets a better platform

Science & Tech : State capital has least scope of grid collapse owing to its proximity to

the Ramagundam Thermal Power Station - ‘City protected from grid collapse’

Agriculture : It meets the growers’ needs and improves paddy production - ICM’s economic viability makes Kerala accept this technology

Economy : Some 32,000 unemployed youth will identified under RYK - Thousands to get jobs by year-end

India needs to make practical choices that prioritise growth, argues - Decision analysis for interest rates-II

An Electoral System Designed fora predominantly rural Country cannot cope with the urban revolution - The Urban Voter not on a Roll

Demand Component of GDP during “DROUGHT” years - 2012-13: Annus horribilis

Given the current rainfall trends in June and July, the monsoon (June 1-September 30) rainfall for the country as a whole is in all likelihood to be “deficient” (defined as less than 90 per cent of LPA, the Long Period Average) - Predicting the monsoon

Economy - RBI has raised inflation forecast and lowered GDP growth projection - GROWTH-INFLATION DILEMMA

Economy : Why the RBI’s fears about India’s growing current account deficit are misplaced - It’s Not The Usual Suspect

Economy : Giving a gloomy picture, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Monday, said that growth outlook remained weak and inflation was likely to be sticky during 2012-13 - Upside risks to inflation remain strong: RBI

Economy : Business is growing at 25% annually and now covers more than 200 districts in 21 states - Crop Insurance Picks Up on Weather Woes

Agriculture minister says the new bill likely to make land acquisition difficult and expensive for investors - Land Acquisition Bill

Financial Plan - First Step towards Secure Financial Future

Statistics of Auto Mobile Companies - STATSGURU

Science & Tech : Solar power is emerging as a key renewable source of power in India as the government is pushing through policies to support its development, given its focus on preventing climate change by encouraging green power, and, at the same time, diversifying its energy mix - Healthy return is the key to solar power

After the withdrawal of a report on neutrinos traveling Faster than Light,a paper Redeems Einsteins physics by reveling the Reason for  slowdown of the Pioneer space probes - EINSTEIN WAS RIGHT,AGAIN

India has finally woken up to the uncomfortable link between open defecation and low economic productivity - Let the toilet revolution begin

Health - Roberts Reduce Errors During Surgery - In Safe Hands

Socio - Economy : It is unfortunate that public debate on the Right to Education Act has been limited almost exclusively to the clause which requires every recognised school to admit in Class-I and “pre-school education” — to the extent of at least 25 per cent of the strength of the class — children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups and provide them free and compulsory elementary education - An education act with more wrongs than rights

Agriculture : Little hope of crop revival as rains to weaken further in Aug - Dying Monsoon to Heat Up Prices of Farm Products

This year, the monsoon is really playing hide-and-seek - Reading the rain is like science fiction

Agriulture : With the monsoon having advanced, the administration has set a target of disbursing Rs.1,266 crore agricultural loans to the farmers during this kharif - Farm operations pick up

Economy : The world is divided into two camps: pro and anti-globalization - The worst of the global beast

Kalam disproved the notion that the President is only a constitutional ornament - A man in mission-mode

Agriculture : Due to inadequate water, paddy nurseries were not raised even after 50 days of kharif season - Farming gains momentum

Agriculture : With sowing of kharif crops lagging by over 86 lakh hectares compared to last year because of an erratic south-west monsoon and the average water level in major reservoirs declining by 2 per cent (to 59 per cent of last year’s storage) over the previous week, the country faces a grim situation - Lower kharif sowing a cause for worry

The weak monsoon may hurt crop output more than expected as rainfall has been much lower than the national average in the breadbasket states that account for the biggest share of India’s agricultural output - Less Rains in Key States may Hurt Farm Output

Spending just an additional . 5,000 per head on skills will make unemployed youth employable - Who Should Pay for Skilling?

Economy : India took a belated but bold step to provide universal education by enacting the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 - Strengthen the melting pot

The agriculture ministry must take adequate steps to plan strategies - Gearing up to face the challenges of a possible drought

Economy : Edible oils are being imported from Malaysia and Indonesia.State and central governments are trying to bring down the quantum of edible oil imports by encouraging oil palm cultivation on a massive scale in the state. Plans afoot to boost oil palm production

Science and Technology : The Government is gearing up to prepare a time-bound action plan for development of offshore wind energy especially in the coastal states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka - Plans afoot to develop offshore wind energy

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is the mantra in the increasingly eco-conscious world today - A career out of waste

Economy : Headline inflation eased a tad to 7.25 per cent in June from 7.55 per cent in May following a marginal cooling in prices of manufactured goods - Inflation eases a bit

A journey into the global history of cotton textiles reveals at each step how significantly it eventually led to the door of Industrial Revolution - How cotton caught on

Just a Little bit of discipline and investing money regularly would help you create a large Corpus for your retirement in a few years of time - Wake up and plan for your Future Retirement now

Economy : The series of measures announced by the Reserve Bank of India just before Pranab Mukherjee laid down office as the Finance Minister were aimed at encouraging forex inflows, and thereby reverse the downtrend in the value of the rupee vis-à-vis the dollar and other currencies. Soon enough, it was felt that other measures were needed to revive the economy - Reversing growth recession

Economy : Government’s policy of price control is a major disincentive for capacity addition - Nutrient-based subsidy in urea, a must

Agriculture - Kharif sowing down despite better rain and Status at Reservoirs

Bad policy compounds the impact of poor rainfall. But India has still got enough buffer against erratic rains - Even if Monsoon’s Bad, GDP Impact No More Than 0.25%

From smarter official response systems to availability of better technology and information flow, India’s capacity to handle a drought has improved vastly - 5 Reasons Why Even a Drought Won’t Matter

Agriculture - 56 pc of MGNREGS wages in Bengal delayed, no delays in TN, northeastern states - PM wants audits to check rural job scheme wage delays

Agriculture - Containing the impact of deficient rain requires proactive due diligence rather than big-ticket policy actions - Chasing a drought

Economy : In most developed — and many developing — countries today, a 12-year school education and universal health coverage (UHC) are the two primary responsibilities of the state. India has failed miserably on both counts - Take this patient to ICU

Health - Countering Obesity with Drugs has always Proved difficult Due to Nasty Side Effects.Why are they so Hard to make? - Fat Lot of Good

Why is Indian Media Suddenly nervous about its own power?Why is it promoting the idea of its 'regulation'? - Shoot me the Messenger

Some startling facts about living standards revealed - The McWages index

Economy : Low growth and high inflation will hit consumption across all income groups - A Dangerous Mix

Science and Technology - The rupee devaluation over last year has exacerbated problems for an industry that has no manufacturing capabilities but instead assembles imported components - Hard knocks for Indian hardware

Economy : Giving in to public protest against privatisation of water services and indiscriminate pricing of water, the modified national water policy provides for subsidy to the poor but at the same time emphasises the need for subjecting water to allocation and pricing on ‘economic principles’ - Water policy against ‘heavy under-pricing’ of power for farmers

Economy - India's Budgeting must be measured up to international best Practices.A Fiscal Responsibility Council Headed by Prime Minister needs to be constituted - The Fiscal Imperative

Economy : India’s backbone comes from its indomitable infrastructure which has undergone massive changes in the past decade.These changes were owing to the rapid growth rate of the Indian economy and fast paced urbanisation - Indian infrastructure – pillar of progress and strength

The heart of this collection of essays is a powerful historiographical introduction to the study of the Indian village. Explaining how the Indian village became a focal point of study for social anthropologists, the introduction brings together critiques of colonial notions of the self-sufficient village community and idealised models of caste and varna - Life and times of the Indian village

Economy : The slowdown is characterised by a sharp deceleration in investment growth on the demand side and in agriculture, manufacturing and construction on the supply side, alongside high and unprecedented current account deficits.The growth model has come undone