India File

Making a program talk like humans

Indian companies and consumers are increasingly interacting with chatbots now, creating a new economy while integrating themselves into the larger universe of artificial intelligence. Venkatesh Ganesh and Jinoy Jose P log into the bot economy to track the trend

Lack of awareness among policyholders proves an impediment

Kerala’s weather has swung between extremes in recent times. Districts that had experienced extreme drought conditions consecutively through the last ...

Extreme weather events are increasingly likely to become more frequent in a time of global warming. The challenge is to gear up disaster management ...

At 3 am on August 18, Thirumaleshwara Gowda of Kalmakar village (nearly 130 km from Mangaluru) in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district noticed ...

Plantation, tourism and real estate in Kerala have been affected. Recovery efforts are about funds, inclusiveness and sustainability. BusinessLine reports

In an interview to Poornima Joshi, sociologist and former professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Dipankar Gupta says that, as a ...

Affluent, hardworking and courageous, is how one of the most prominent communities in Gujarat — the Patidars — are described. Since Independence, ...

Having spent a significant part of his life ferrying passengers on his hand-pulled rickshaw, Mohammad Abdul, now 65, laments the way things have ...

When Nand Kishore Chandan’s family shifted from Amroha in Moradabad district to Delhi in 1982 where his father was employed as draughtsman with the ...

Technology has helped small-time vendors and students go up the ladder

At the age of 42, in 2006, Narayana Peesapaty had a typical middle-class individual’s dilemma. — whether to stick to a well-paying job or explore the ...

India’s large, nascent middle class seeks a slice of the urban, service sector. It wants English education, a good life, and a political force that understands its aspirations — BusinessLine reports in this two-page special

R S Sodhi, Managing Director of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), speaks to BusinessLine on issues relating to milk prices, ...

India’s dairy industry is in a state of flux. The oversupply of milk is both a crisis and an opportunity for the stakeholders — dairy farmers, cooperatives and organised private players. Vishwanath Kulkarni reports

CRY’s recent report makes a case for addressing the extreme vulnerability faced by ‘childescents’ in the country

Tamil Nadu has been a trendsetter in rain water harvesting, making it mandatory for all buildings as far back as 2003.Today, according to the State ...

There are 5,735 licensed bottlers for packaged drinking water across India, alongside uncountable unbranded ones. In a country where disposable ...

Barely 5 km from the eastern edge of Kolkata is a spectacle that often takes the unwary visitor by surprise. One finds very large shallow ponds, with ...

Cities need to shift to waste recycling to preserve future resources, for which the finance and technology constraints need to be sorted out. A Srinivas reports

In this concluding series on jobs, BusinessLine finds that while small units have been hit all over the country, there have been job creators as well in a rapidly changing economy. Tina Edwin reports

TeamLease Services, a recruitment and consultancy concern, has been an observer-participant in India’s labour and skills scene for over a decade.

The pejorative jokes on pakoda sellers apart, the Centre has been keen on pushing self-employment in a country where it is virtually impossible to ...