Lack of firm coal supply agreements that had dampened investor confidence and forced the chief executives of 20 top private power companies to declare a crisis in February last year - Fuel linkages for 78k-Mw capacity to be in place by Sept

With simple ideas that do not require big bang reforms, India can weather the storm caused by global and domestic economic factors - The India of 2013 is not the India of 1991

According to the latest estimates, food grains worth Rs 236.32 crore were lost due to storage, pilferage, transportation and damage in the first quarter of 2013-14 - Loss of Food Grains

The food security Bill aims to give cereals to the beneficiaries. However, there has been a drop in consumption expenditure since 2004-05 - Trends in composition of consumer expenditure

The Bill, which seeks to entitle 67 per cent of the country’s population — about 800 million people —to subsidised food, was passed after a six-hour debate in a late-evening sitting of the lower house - Lok Sabha clears food Bill

Although the stock market has taken something of a beating since the US’ central bank announced it would withdraw its monetary stimulus, many believe this is the time to find and pick stocks with potential - STATSGURU: Decoding stock market signals to pick winners

A price index for agri commodities: A Business Standard and Indicus Analytics initiative - Commodity for the week Maize

As the southwest monsoon maintains its record-breaking performance over most parts of India, agriculture economists and policy makers hope overall agriculture growth would top five per cent in 2013-14, on the back of bumper harvests - Good rain may push up FY14 farm GDP to 5-7%

Aspects of the Indian crisis have no parallels in recent history, and the crisis has consequently been misdiagnosed - India’s unique crisis - I

India’s public sector banks have a major problem. In 2007-08, the ratio of net nonperforming assets to total loans was just touching one per cent, below the average for their private sector counterparts - STATSGURU: The sorry state of India’s banking industry

A price index for agri commodities: A Business Standardand Indicus Analytics initiative - Commodity for the week groundnut

Projected demand-supply gap in India’s electronics sector- Breaking into the closed circle

The nutritional status of India is a critical issue and expanded crop protection is the need of the hour for assured food and nutritional security - Increased production for an increasing population

The economy is entering another down leg. The bountiful monsoon may save us to an extent, but things are getting worse in terms of industrial production and private sector capital expenditure - India’s darkest hour

Official figures revealed that the proportion of people living below poverty line came down from 37.2 per cent in 2004- 05 to 21.9 per cent in 2011- 12, a decline of 15.3 percentage. This may belie criticism that growth is not percolating -Percentage of population below poverty line

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

The poverty line given by the Planning Commission for 2011-12 has been ridiculed by some critics, who termed it a “starvation line” - Thin line between poverty & starvation