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

In an exercise that may bring cheer to the educated unemployed youth, the government has identified as many as 63,621 vacancies covering a majority of its departments to be filled soon. - 63,621 government jobs available

THE PRIME Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) has come out with its Review of the Economy for 2013 - STATSGURU: Decoding PMEAC’s review of the economy

While the current environment is difficult,the future holds promise - Growth in Q3 has slowed to sub - 5%

Despite impressive Economic growth in past 20 years,85 percent of India's workforce is employed in the informal sector - The Job Scene : Informal Sector a Drag

Rains in 2013 would definitely be better than last year - IMD forecasts normal monsoon this year

Any fruit crop is perennial in nature and takes a minimum of three years after planting to bear the first fruits. Quality planting material key to better productivity in orchards

‘State government encouraging farm mechanisation’ - Make better use of subsidy on agriculture tools: Collector

Communicating a powerful mindset and displaying confidence is what employers look for - How to land that job when you think you can’t

Seeking to explain why its projections on GDP growth and current account deficit (CAD) for 2012-13 went awry - Policy inertia and not low investments that stalled economic progress

New power plants could source imported coal from CIL on ‘cost-plus’ basis - Coal price pooling shelved

Clearence of oil blocks frees up $4.61 bn investment - CCI nod to 13 power projects,25 oil blocks

A price index for agri commodities: A Business Standardand Indicus Analytics initiative - Indicus price monitor

THE INDIAN automobile sector is going through some tough times - STATSGURU: What ails India’s beleaguered auto sector?

Dalit organisations dub the proposal as pro-landed - Uncertainty over move to link NREGS to farm labour

While scaling down economic growth a bit, says retail price inflation will be in double digits in 2013 and 2014 - IMF pegs 2013 current a/c deficit at 4.9% of GDP

The core challenge of energy security is to build up domestic supply through clean coal and renewable sources - How to secure India’s energy

The discipline and practice of education has largely been circumscribed within discussions privileging its role and importance in the growth and development of a country’s social and economic status. - Tracing the trajectory of sociology of education

Lower inflation sparks rate-cut hopes while petrol, gold and a host of other items get cheaper - Inflation Drops Below 6%, Flash Mob Goes to RBI

THE SUGAR industry has been partially decontrolled, which means greater play for market factors - STATSGURU: India’s bitter-sweet sugarcane story

India’s manufacturing sector is in a mess. There is not enough investment and jobs are few. The labour cost-advantage is fast disappearing. What do you think has gone wrong? - ‘We are Slaves in Manufacturing... We Have to be Our Own Masters’

‘Zero-tillage’ farming can reduce the hazards of crop-residue burning - The smoking farmlands

Steady flow of sugar from foreign markets could keep a check on domestic price, due to import parity - Bullish outlook for sugar, cotton

THE INDIAN pharmaceutical sector is in the news,with generic makers (largely Indian) winning a series of administrative and judicial victories against patent-holders (all MNCs) - STATSGURU: Indian pharma is high on profit, low on R&D

Like many other countries, India should proactively assist indigenous firms to take advantage of drugs coming off patents over the next two years - Health Needs Intensive Care, Not a Quick Fix

Hopes economic growth to be over 6% this year : says money-transfer exposé being looked into - FY13 fiscal deficit to beat projection

One of the most competitive and crucial sectors in any economy,the power sector stands to gain from events such  as Grid tech 2013,which not only provides a platform for stake holders but also acts as a showcase for the industry - Gridtech 2013 : A surge of power

high interest rates coupled with sticky inflation continued to exert pressure on residential real estate demand as potential buyers chose to remain in a wait-and-watch mode - Demand to see momentum

Dependence on a private sector-led boom in infrastructure and foreign finance to offset the balance of payments deficit is not sound policy - Outsourcing investment & other follies

Employment Geneation in eight key manufaturing and services sector grew by over 9 percent between july and december 2012 compared to the first half of 2012 - Job Creation shows upswing

Agriculture Vs Technology

Gap touches record 6.7% of GDP, finance ministry sees moderation in March quarter - Current account deficit zooms

Cloud technology standardises and pools IT resources and automates many of the maintenance tasks done manually under traditional or client/server model of computing - How governments can benefit from cloud computing

The growth path going forward has to absorb the new entrants into the labour force, estimated at 4.5 million annually in the 12th Plan document - Jobs, jobs, jobs

HOW HAVE commodities fared over the past financial year? Gold, in particular, has been much studied oflate. It has been held responsible for India’s problematic current account deficit - STATSGURU: Commodities give a mixed picture

Experts say infiltration capacity reduces in urban areas - Call to Harvest Rain Water

Indian school children may have the fundamental right to education, but things are going fundamentally wrongacross the country’s schools.The elementary education budget has more than doubled since 2007-08, yet only about 30 percent of Standard-III students can read a Standard-I text. Is this a case of massivespend, without any dividend? - India spends, but education suffers

Growth revival will be more tentative, inflation sharper, and external pressures more acute than pronouncements suggest - Is the worst over?

Farm sector’s share in GSDP down over the past few years - State’s GSDP takes a nosedive

IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) in the State has declined from 66 per 1,000 live births in 2001 to 43 in 2011, according to Socio Economy Survey 2012-13 - Infant mortality declines in State

A slew of policy initiatives may be breathing life back into the infrastructure sector - Policy spring and green shoots

The market expects it to cut rates this week but the macroeconomic situation could suggest otherwise - STATSGURU: Governor Subbarao’s dilemma

The proposal to give mills the freedom to sell any quantity of sugar in the open market might also be discussed - Govt may discuss sugar decontrol tomorrow

Study across districts shows higher prosperity doesn’t necessarily translate into better quality of life; North India low on female security index - More often doesn’t mean better

How the FM squeezed spending to control the fiscal deficit - STATS GURU

With the Budget proposing an additional investment allowance of 15 per cent for assets acquired and installed in the next two years for over Rs100 crore in capital spending, companies are expected to get a total benefit of ~25,000 crore - Budget to help India Inc save rs 25,000 cr in 2 Years

Allocations for schemes remain by and large constant - Health, education could have done with more

Newcriteria lookatper capita income, literacyrate, human developmentindicators - Redefining backwardness of states

BUDGET AT A GLANCE

Food Security FM allocates Rs 10,000 cr to implementthe programme; this is apart from the usual
food subsidyrequirementof Rs 80,000 cr for the year - A bigger helping for food Bill

Interest subvention scheme to include private sector commercial banks - Farmers get credit guarantee backing

Indian economy has made significant strides in the last few years, with the GDP growth rate hovering around 5.3 per cent and showing signs of touching the seven per cent mark soon. - ‘Indian economy cannot ignore manufacturing sector’

Personal disposable income (PDI) in India grew by 15-21 per cent in nominal terms a year between 2008-09 and 2011-12, even as demand increases for raising the income tax (I-T) exemption level in the coming Union Budget. - Data show income growth ahead of inflation

After steps to control high inflation and push growth, the next logical move is to revive private investment - After Fiscal Consolidation

Food Security Scheme Likely to get rs 5000 cr in budget

At 6.62 % in January, it may provide some solace to authorities - WPI inflation eases to 3-year low

There are many ways of looking at the Central Statistical Organisation’s latest GDP forecast which pegs growth at just 5 per cent for the current year (2012-13) - Growing at five per cent

The data do not take into account the reform measures - Growth estimates ‘below expectations’: FinMin

During transmission of power, transformers are used to step up or step down AC voltage. This allows power companies to produce at a low voltage and transmit at a high voltage to reduce loss - Empowering Progress of a Transforming Nation

Hunger afflicts only 2% of all households, while malnutrition stunts 45% of all children below five years - Focus on Malnutrition, Not Hunger

Like the Economic Survey and Budget, the RBI’s Macro Report and Policy Statement are not in sync - RBI’s Policy & Macro Disconnect

Dec 2.6% growth lower than last years 4.9% - Coal,gas drive down core sector output

GDP logged 9.3% in 2010-11, will grow by 5.5-6% this fiscal & jump to 7% in 2013-14 - Govt Revises Down GDP Growth for ’11-12 at 6.2%

Combined with the ultrahigh bypass ration engines, NASA’s design could use only half as much fuel as conventional aircraft - Hybrid wing for reduced fuel consumption