India File

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 ...

Around 50 km east of Haliyal is the Deshpande Foundation (DF), a not-for-profit skills centre in Hubballi. Set up by husband-wife duo Gururaj and ...

IL&FS Education, a leading social organisation under parent company IL&FS, has emerged as a leading player in the skills mission. It conducts ...

In the first of a two-part series on skills and jobs, BusinessLine examines the angst and aspirations of mofussil India and the systemic challenges faced by them

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