Rupee recorded another 10-month low on Thursday against the U.S. dollar even as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor aired his concerns on stubbornly high retail inflation and widening current account deficit - Rupee sinks to new low

Cotton farmers are a happy lot, at least at the beginning of kharif this year, as they are able to purchase Bt cotton seeds much below the prescribed retail price -cotton seed price keeps farmers happy

In India, annual GDP growth is expected to strengthen gradually, to around 5.3 percent in 2013 - OECD slashes India’s growth forecast for 2013

Index of Educations to track growth of the sector, which contributes about 4% to the GDP - Central Statistics Office Working on Education Index

As many as 1.2 billion people almost  the population of india ont have acces to electricity and 2.8 billion have to rely on wood or other biomass to cook and heat their homes,finds a world bank report - Three power points for india & the world

Think tank says country might have overtaken Japan, but lowers FY13 growth projection to 5.3% - India May’ve Become World’s Third Largest Economy: OECD

India will have to completely reverse how it focuses development activity in the coming decades - Towards 2050:development imperatives

The RBI’s conservatism has been criticised by the government and industry for stalling growth. But the facts suggest a weak correlation - The interest rate illusion

Centre’s nod for setting up three National Investment and Manufacturing Zones in State - ‘AP set to become a manufacturing hub’

To improve air connectivity in remote areas, the civil aviation ministry is considering a proposal to allow scheduled regional airlines to induct smaller aircraft for deployment on regional routes - Govt moots steps to improve regional air connectivity

Much-touted foreign direct investment (FDI) reforms notwithstanding, India received 38 per cent less of such inflows into the country at $22.4 billion in 2012-13 against $35.1 billion in the previous year, data released from The Department Of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) showed - FDI inflows into India

Aprice indexfor agri commodities: ABusiness Standardand Indicus Analytics initiative - Commodity for the week - Potato

HAS THE rupee’s behaviour in the recent past been predictable? - STATSGURU: Making sense of the rupee’s depreciation

Ahead of the arrival of the monsoon in June, water reservoirs have sufficient storage due to good winter rains earlier this year, improving the prospects of hydro power availability and kharif crops - Hydro reservoirs brighten power, kharif crop prospects

The agrochemical industry will reach around four billion USD by 2020 - The future of the agrochemical sector in India

A price index for agri commodities: A Business Standard and Indicus Analytics initiative - Commodiy for the week - onion

Has India’s Parliament been getting worse over the past decade, under the United Progressive Alliance? According to Table 1, both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha have consistently sat for fewer days than supposed to over the session - STATSGURU: Taking stock of Parliament during the UPA’s rule

A total of 12 per cent of the respondents reported an increase in cultivable land, while 36 per cent reported a rise in the number of crops sown, suggesting the scheme was partly realising its objective of making small and marginal farmers and other marginalised communities self-reliant - MGNREGS labour shifting to horticulture

At the Lok Siksha Samiti meeting with officials on Thursday, the Collector said according to a survey done in the past, some 7.39 lakh illiterates were identified - Call to improve literacy rate

At present, China tops the list with increase in consumption - Steel production may cross 200 million tonnes by 2020

Nitin Desai lays out the key inflection points that will affect India’s development in the decades to come - Looking towards 2050

For the first time since November 2009, wholesale price index-based headline inflation slid further to 4.89 per cent in April this year - Inflation drops to 4.89 % in April

ASHIMA GOYAL, one of the external members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Reserve Bank of India and professor of economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development research, Mumbai, talks to Neelasri Barmanon inflation expectations and the central bank’s likely thinking - With sticky inflation, RBI has to go carefully

Market hopes for more rate cuts as April headline number at 4.89% is the lowest since November 2009 - Inflation backin RBI’s comfortzone

Retail inflation dropped a big one percentage point to single digit in April, as feared spike in food prices in the lean season has not manifest and weak consumer demand kept prices of manufactured goods in check -More Good News on Inflation

This performance was underpinned by an amalgam of strong exports to the U.S. and the depreciation of the rupee against the dollar - World economy in a tizzy, but Indian pharma flying high

Economic growth forecasts for the current year (2013-14) by official and non-official agencies have started coming in at regular intervals - Growth forecasts: fanciful or realistic

How much top executives should be paid has been a vexed one especially since the financial crisis of 2008 - STATSGURU: Making sense of top executives’ salaries in India

Less wheat output is likely to mean less procurement by the government in this year - Wheat output may be less this year

India recorded an unprecedented 46.5 per cent growth in new power capacity in the first quarter ended March this year, according to Platts, a global provider of energy price assessments -India bucks the trend in power development

‘The two seed varieties, MCM 100 and MCM 101, give much more yield than existing varieties’ - Two new paddy varieties developed

Inflation-indexed bonds to be launched by MayInflation down - FinMin bats for rate cut

Orderly rupee depreciation, a lower fiscal deficit and credible stress tests for banks are essential to stave off crisis - What type of crisis for India?

A bull run looks possible only if the Nifty breaks out above 6,111 — and that’s some distance away - Rewriting the Indian growth story

INDIA’S CENSUS has recently released data from the decennial exercise that allows some final conclusions, and draws attention to the startling demographic difference between India’s north and its south - STATSGURU: Two Indias

Colleges or universities can become Vocational Training Provide - The mantra is to impart skills to make youth employable

For the 2012-13 crop marketing year ending June, India’s wheat production is estimated at 93.62 million tonnes (mt), close to last year’s record output of 94.88 mt - Foodgrain output seen rising 2%

Customising the recruitment agenda is key to attracting the right talent during campus recruitment - EMPLOYERS - ARE THEY CAMPUS-READY?

The mistaken notion that the 53 per cent of India’s population ‘dependent on agriculture’ are all ‘farmers’ leads many to dismiss the massive farmers’ suicides as trivial - Over 2,000 fewer farmers every day