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