The programme to target pump efficiency will only add to chronic water and power shortages - The futility of ‘pump priming’ agriculture

IT leader Infosys has chosen high margins over fast growth, a strategy that has cost it both market capitalisation and market share. While many suggest that Infosys should reconsider its stand, academics and analysts seem to have a completely different opinion. Here is how they see the road ahead - Is it time Infosys cut prices?

There is too little international adoption from India - Tying up adoptions in red tape

Financial markets may have jumped on the ‘Draghi put’ but the fundamentals still look dubious - Markets ready to rally?

India China Trade Statistic - STATSGURU

Agriculture : As the monsoon plays truant, the tragic face of our agrarian distress, suicide by farmers, is likely to manifest again in several parts of the country - Bt Cotton & Farmer Suicides

Economy : Nizamabad Collector says empowerment is possible only through education - “Focus should be on women’s literacy”

India’s decided that public-private partnerships will fuel growth.Without similar investment in regulatory capacity, that’s backfiring - The PPP nation 

Economy : The present retirement age of 60 years is disadvantageous to officers belongingto the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as they generally join government service later than other officers - Fixed tenure, a way forward on promotions

The gloom appears to be overdone as only some segments are going through a rough patch - The myth of ad slowdown

The latest battleground for the world’s biggest tech companies is one of its oldest forms of data: maps - How Google Earth Changed the World

Expediting environmental, particularly forest, clearances would more than double coal production and, along with the delayed infrastructure projects, take us to double-digit growth; this requires a new national consensus on the dynamic interaction between nature and society - Infrastructure and Nature

Economy : India’s coal sector is governed by opaque rules that promote discretion and graft - Coalgate’s Main Lesson

ITsAP submits report to IT Minister to make Andhra Pradesh a leader in the IT and ITeS sectors - Industry body prepares route map to develop IT sector

The government must remove the subsidy on diesel, LPG and kerosene, and protect the poor from the impact through cash transfers - Fuelling a manageable price rise

Cancelling all coal blocks is not the way out the mess.Power generating stations with captive mines should be made to sell electricity at regulation tariffs - Mining a Solution

Universities provide discount coupons, assistant ship that can be brought to good use in the current economic slowdown - Save while studying abroad

Express their desire to withdraw case against AICTE over new rules - B-schools seek compromise

In both Europe and the US, standard macroeconomic policies have done little to end the recession - This recovery is different

State-owned banks may be sitting on a powder-keg of inadequately provisioned loans - The hidden truth to PSB profitability