The poverty estimates published last week by the Planning Commission, based on a household survey of consumer expenditure carried out during 2011-12, have attracted enormous attention across the stakeholder spectrum - Poverty reduction should be widespread

Arhar, a kharif crop, is estimated to have had the second-highest output ever in 2012-13 - Commodity for the week – Arhar

Production of pulses might reach another record in 2013- 14, as sowing of the crop this kharif season has been 80 per cent more than in the same period last year - Pulses output might set another record

WHAT ARE Indians spending their money on? Recently released numbers from the National Sample Survey for 2011-12 provide some details - STATSGURU: The way India spends now