This device helps farmers to plant the seedlings at exact locations - New improvised tool for SRI paddy planting method

The phrase grapevine communication is generally associated with gossip, rumours and ill-will among other assorted negative connotations - Grapevine communication

The draft of the 12th Five Year Plan covering the period 2012-13 to 2016-17, approved by the National Development Council last week, aims to achieve an annual average growth rate of 8 per cent, scaled down from 8.2 per cent. - On shaky foundation

Net primary and secondary income flows are smaller - Current account deficit widens to 5.4 % in Q2

An Emerging scientific view of human evolution suggests that we need regular physical activity for our brains to function optimally - Exercise makes the brain Smarter

The economy might still be wobbly. But for Job-Seekers, There are pockets of promise. Sreeradha D Basu picked the minds of the country’s biggest hr names to zero in on 10 job profiles or segments in 2013 -10 Hot Jobs for 2013

Govt outlines a series of measures to boost women’s role in MGNREGS - Rural Jobs to See More Role For Women

This crisis of about the state that positioned itself as a vanguard, then got lost in pathologies - Rage and Helplessness 

Funding is not an issue for viable projects, the point is to speed up clearances and put in place well-defined policies, the absence of which queers the pitch at present - Only Politics Constrains India’s Infrastructure

Some Patients face severe reactions if they consume grapefruit when on medication. Doctors say as many as 43 drugs may be life threatening, some of them fairly common - Forbidden Fruit

Credit inclusion, farm lease and forming clusters can help small farmers overcome poverty much faster - Small is Indeed Productive

India’s return to a growth rate of 8% is unlikely to happen before 2014-15 - Slow Return to 8% Growth

The past few years, from 2008 to 2012, have probably been some of the most volatile for the Indian economy - Recession Revelations: Jobs Down, Salary Up

Drug based on DNA alone might not achieve 'holy grail' as cancer cell with identical genome found to behave differently under chemotherapy - Gene Sequencing may not tell the whole story of cancer cell

Too Many of our economic prescriptions are based on dogma,empirical half truths - Myths of our making

AICTE will deploy Microsoft Office 365 for education at more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India - ‘Microsoft Office 365 for education’ deployment at AICTE

Latin America and Kenya have successful cash transfer schemes. We must learn from their experience - Designing Cash Transfers

Given the overwhelming evidence of women being a force behind growth, the U.S.-backed regional women’s entrepreneurship symposium in Dhaka must be used to find solutions to the barriers they face - When women drive economic growth

Applied science has given us short-term solutions to eliminating weeds, BT may have long-term answers - Weeds and Biotechnology

The chances of correct diagnosis and treatment in both rural and urban areas by private and public care providers are dismal - Appalling condition of primary healthcare services