The nationwide lockdown has been hard on the agricultural sector. Though certain agricultural activities have been exempted, problems like disruption in the buying of foodgrains by the government, difficulties in harvesting due to a shortage of labour, and weakened market linkages due to disru...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes have emerged as a major source of social elevation in India. The largest 500 Indian companies had the prescribed CSR fund of `12079 crore in the financial year 2018-19. This amount has increased to Rs 13405 crore in the 2019-20 fiscal. Additionally, t...
The Indian agricultural sector is going through a rough phase. Weak policy focus, widespread droughts (in about 40% of India) in the preceding fiscal, continuously dipping prices for most crops, and uncertain yield are some of the major factors responsible for this. The fall in prices of crops...
India has more than 640,000 villages and yet very few of them would be as graphic as the village of Naya - located in the Malikgram panchayat of the Pingla block in the Paschim Midnapur district of West Bengal.Apart from the houses painted with artwork, the village has a number of other unique attri...
There is a distinct sense of despair and helplessness around her as Renuka Acharjee comes out of her tarpaulin wrapped, devastated house. Remains of an uprooted electric pole lie at the far end of her property line. It’s been nearly a month that the cyclonic storm Bulbul ravaged her village, Gobar...
A significant number of home buyers in the luxury segment look at these as positive investments. With the market down, there is little optimism about the investment value of luxury homes.According to market insiders, the luxury segment is the most stressed of all segments in the real estate sector. ...
With an estimated population of 377 million and an annual exponential growth rate (AEGR) of 2.76% (2001-2011), urban India is in the midst of a major churn.India’s urban growth is largely concentrated in large cities. The number of cities with a population exceeding one million has increased from ...
Spices have been an integral part of India’s external trade for centuries, linking the ancient Indian civilisation to the civilisations of Babylon, Carthage, Alexandria, and Rome. Buying spices is so inexpensive now that it seems hard to believe that once they were valued as highly as gold a...
Narendra Modi may have successfully steered his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a thumping victory in the recently concluded parliamentary election in India but he still needs to deliver on the agrarian front. The ongoing agrarian crisis in India found little mention in the BJP's election camp...
Higher education is at a critical juncture in India. The widening gap between education and employability has been a persistent problem of the Indian higher education system for some time now. Despite numerous governmental initiatives, the unemployment crisis in India is far from being resolved.Acco...
