The political stand-off in Washington makes tax hikes impossible.But there’s a way around it - Fixing America’s fiscal problem

Switching to solar farm pumpsets can ease pollution, subsidy, current account deficit and power shortages - Subsidise Solar, not Diesel

‘Supply-side inflation tends to spill over through its impact on expectations’ - Lesson from the oil shock

Electricity Statistics - STATS GURU

Harvesters will help ryots cut costs - Exhibition on power tools in agriculture a big hit

This year’s monsoon has shown season-long predictions are of little use. Will India’s state meteorologists listen - The monsoon: lessons, and a question

New pricing to affect those with high domestic sales; industry lauds move - Pharma to gulp one-time bitter pill

It is a positive development that many new gated communities in and around several Indian cities are more organised in planning and implementing the sanctioned layout in accordance with the original intent of high quality living - Sustainable green spaces improve quality of urban living

In a further confirmation of the continued sluggishness in the economy, the growth rate of the eight core sector industries decelerated to 2.1 per cent in August from 3.8 per cent in the same month a year ago, mainly owing to contraction in output of crude oil, natural gas, fertilizers and cement - Core sector growth slips

Sterling may get . 1,200-cr valuation; deal could be largest in dairy sector - Global Dairy Majors Join the Race for Sterling Agro

Govt sets a target of 40 million tonnes for the 2012-13 kharif season - Rice procurement estimated to rise 14%

In all, 888 engineering seats added in 2012-13, compared to 342 the previous year, according to AICTE data - Spurt in demand for PG engineering courses

Who doesn’t like simple stories? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could toss out villains and live happily ever after? Unfortunately, this happens only in fairy tales - The Myth of Bt Cotton Collapse

In the season of reforms, a spate of insensitive regulations is threatening the very existence of the non-profit sector - It’s ‘reining’ restrictions for NGOs

Earlier, politicians thought voters demanded a ceiling on inflation.Now, people want a floor on growth - Politics: The changing assumptions

In the past few months, Cipla has changed its strategy in a number of areas — from region, to product to human resources — to prevent a future meltdown from eroding margins - Cipla goes through a quiet revolution

Reserve Bank of India Survey - 4 YEARS AT THE HELM

The Naukri Job Speak index for August shows a dip in hiring levels quelling the optimistic hiring forecast at the beginning of the year - Continued slowdown in hiring activity

Flash floods and landslips that have followed unusually sustained rainfall since September 17 have left a deadly trail in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh - Better planning for floods

The waste of daylight hours strengthens the case for a separate time zone ahead of IST for the eastern States - Not in their comfort zone