India can undertake several interventions like managing flood, prevent drought, improve storage of water and expanding irrigation by bringing in technologies. Since the average farmland is reduced and cannot be expanded, it is appropriate to use efficient technology, high-yielding seeds,

During May-June, sales of not only seasonal consumer goods such as ACs and refrigerators go up, but also with more and more families going abroad for holidays, there is a surge in sales of cameras and camcorders and even laptops,

Five pilot schemes, being rolled out across the UK, could slap up to 1,000 pound a year on households that fails to recycle enough, the Daily Express tabloid said on Thursday. The report said ministers have signalled that the pilot

The hotel group plans to invest about Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.2 billion) over the next two-three years for setting up four-star hotels in Hyderabad and Coimbatore. Speaking at a press conference on the launch of a bartending course in

As a rule, broad governance reform is neither necessary nor sufficient for growth.

The growth in new business premium for private sector players slowed down to 53.6 per cent y-o-y for March 2008 compared with 90.5 per cent y-o-y for the period beween April 2007 and February 2008. That dragged down the growth

There is little to suggest inflation levels will come down since you hardly see the same levels of seasonality in prices that were there earlier.

In the US, for instance, as much as 30 per cent of food, worth $48.3 billion approximately, is thrown away each year, the report prepared by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The report quoted SingTel chief executive officer (CEO) Chua Sock Koong as saying that the talks were "at an extremely preliminary, exploratory stage". The company's CEO for international operations, Lim Chuan Poh, was quoted as saying that it was too

How a violent - and spreading - Maoist insurgency threatens the country's runaway growth

According to sources, Reliance Infratel would offer 10 per cent equity to the public valued at Rs 5,000-6,000 crore (Rs 50-60 billion). Reliance Infratel is the telecom infrastructure division of Reliance Communications Ltd.

India's infrastructure growth slipped to 9.6 per cent in March 2008 from 10.5 per cent in the same month last year.

The BlackBerry Bold may look like an iPhone wannabe but Research In Motion won't give up any customers without a fight

A Chinese woman, eight months pregnant, was pulled to safety on Wednesday after spending 50 hours trapped under earthquake rubble.

Journalists from south Asia working in the Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and Sinhala sections of the BBC World Service in London have launched a campaign to protest against offshoring of programming to the Indian sub-continent.

As many as 31 people were killed and over 50 injured in fierce duststorms, heavy rains and bolts of lightning in different parts of North India on Wednesday.

ASEAN group said it would lead an international 'coalition of mercy' to provide assistance to cyclone-hit Myanmar.

Raje said saying if Sonia Gandhi wanted to make a 'political point' by visiting the blast victims, this was not the time.

The PM said many terrorist attacks like the ones on Parliament and Akshardham temple had taken place when POTA was in force.

Riding on Sanath Jayasuriya's swashbuckling, unbeaten knock of 114, Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by 9 wkts.