India File

Organised gangs disappear with entire consignments on some highways in northern and central India. E-commerce and logistics players are worried, as about ₹1,000 crore worth of goods vanish each year. Mamuni Das reports

Amrik Singh, a 50-year old trucker, was attacked while driving in Madhya Pradesh, after which he quit driving on long routes. Singh, who now drives ...

The true worth of something is only realised after it’s lost — this adage often rings true in the ears of logistics firms after they are robbed of a ...

At the heart of the controversy over the sale of herbicide-tolerant (HT) Bt cottonseeds is the use of the weedicide glyphosate.The use of glyphosate ...

The sale of unapproved herbicide tolerant Bt cottonseed may jeopardise both the production and quality of cotton. This has also, yet again, exposed the regulatory lacunae with respect to GMOs. Vishwanath Kulkarni and Rahul Wadke report

End-to-end digitisation, data integration of the value chain are crucial

Taking four lakh people back to the classroom isn’t an easy task, even for a cash-rich company like Tata Consultancy Services, the $100-billion ...

India’s 40 lakh IT workforce needs to quickly master AI, machine learning and blockchain, among other technologies, to survive. How is it faring? Venkatesh Ganesh and KV Kurmanath report

About 20 per cent of the workforce at Tirupur’s garment units is from upcountry States

Slow GST refunds continue to hurt exporters (who are entitled to complete refunds as exports are zero rated) in certain sectors, despite government ...

Hit by falling production and exports in the aftermath of GST, garments needs policy support to address both immediate and structural issues. Amiti Sen and LN Revathy report

The sharp fall in unelectrified households in rural India over the last decade has brought about a silent socio-economic transformation. But there are financial and logistical challenges, says Richa Mishra

For decades, a stunning darkness enveloped the adivasi regions just beyond Mumbai. That's slowly changing.Fifty-five-year-old Maruti Shankar Bangar, a ...

A little over a week ago, Ghaziabad was declared as the first district in Uttar Pradesh to have achieved 100 per cent household electrification.This ...

 Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, R K Singh, has his task cut out — light the country’s households and ensure 24x7 electricity at ...

  Sahaja Aaharam, the 10-year-old initiative that has farmers and consumers as stakeholders, has evolved into a sustainable model. Its target is to ...

After completing his post graduation in social work, Manjunath, a native of Sittilingi, a remote village off Salem in Dharmapuri district, worked for ...

Yesterday’s coarse grains are today’s nutri-cereals. If consumers see millets as a solution to lifestyle disorders, producers have realised that it requires less inputs and is an economically viable option if marketing avenues are created. Marking a major policy shift, the Centre and many States have decided to promote millets. Vishwanath Kulkarni reports

 Home as a virtual hospital – that’s the future. The market for home healthcare in India is projected to reach $6.2 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 18 ...

Home healthcare in India remains a sector where caregivers are treated more as maids and man-servants. Nurses working out of patients’ homes do not ...

Home healthcare services are catching on in the cities, which have the expertise and technology to turn your bedroom into an ICU. That’s clearly the future as our society greys and finds it hard to access hospitals, report Sangeetha Chengappa and Thomas Abraham

 The ₹45,000-crore BharatNet project has gone through multiple delays and changes in its rollout strategy. The project assumes national importance, ...

 Ever since Mukesh Ambani rolled out his telecom juggernaut – Reliance Jio – in September 2016, consumers of mobile internet in India have had a great ...

BusinessLine visited villages in Rajasthan, Tripura and Maharashtra to see how BharatNet, the national optic fibre network, was faring – for the third time since the roll-out began eight years back. We saw that cables had reached remote corners, but the Net was not being used. Varun Aggarwal and Pratim Ranjan Bose explain why