A response to check urban migration
A response to check urban migration
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 ...
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‘Skilling has become a mainstream activity’
‘Skilling has become a mainstream activity’
IL&FS Education, a leading social organisation under parent company IL&FS, has emerged as a leading player in the skills mission. It conducts ...
We don’t need this education
We don’t need this education
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
Pirates on the highways
Pirates on the highways
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
Police less than equal to the task
Police less than equal to the task
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 ...
Mysteries of insurance
Mysteries of insurance
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 ...
Glyphosate — the deadly weedicide
Glyphosate — the deadly weedicide
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 ...
Cotton, a ‘seedy’ story
Cotton, a ‘seedy’ story
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
Ready for Industry 4.0?
Ready for Industry 4.0?
End-to-end digitisation, data integration of the value chain are crucial
From Green Revolution to Millet Revolution
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
When you’re really ill...bring home the ICU
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 broadband tangle
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
Staying a notch ahead of the pandemic
An international network that helps vaccine-makers stay a step ahead of the virus, assessing vaccines against ...
Roadblocks to vaccination
Misinformation and the infodemic fuelled vaccine hesitancy in some countries
As the price of aviation turbine fuel soars, airlines’ finances spin out of control
With the impact of the pandemic going down to some extent, air travel for leisure has increased dramatically.
Becoming Atmanirbhar
India needs to produce its own commercial aircraft to forge ahead
There’s byte beyond FAANGs
Keen on netting some US tech stocks? There’s a flourishing ecosystem of companies beyond the biggies. Here’s ...
Index Outlook: Will Nifty 50 rebound from its 21-DMA?
Investors’ focus will be on July month auto sales numbers, RBI’s MPC meeting, rupee movement and crude oil ...
Why you should accumulate Cognizant Technology stock
Course correction provides an opportunity
Why Nippon India Value is a good investment
The fund’s top holdings have delivered healthy returns over the past one year
Old is gold in Olympics too
Senior citizens have put up a good show at the Olympic Games
‘Real Dictators’ and their regimes of suffering
A riveting podcast charts the making of the men who unleashed carnage on the planet
When the warrior becomes the worrier
The leader in the post-Covid-19 world faces the same dilemma Arjuna did — the knowledge-action gap
‘I make a conscious effort to seek out women’s stories... men’s voices are easily heard’
American translator Daisy Rockwell on introducing Usha Priyamvada’s ‘Fifty-Five Pillars, Red Walls’ — a novel ...
Beena Kannan’s new silk route from Kerala
The Seematti CEO’s new brand — launched in her own name — is weaving a new story for silk, beyond sarees
The race to become out of the world brands
Much before Branson and Bezos, brands have propelled themselves into space in a bid to captivate viewers
On the Campaign Trail
The biggest games on the planet, the Olympics, have begun. However, the mega event, being described as the ...
Touch deprived humans
The pandemic has led to “touch starvation”. Isobar, the digital agency from the house of Dentsu India, has ...
Is GST about ease of doing business?
Three years after its inception, compliance with GST procedures remains a headache for exporters, job workers ...
Channapatna sees a revival
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of companies are altering the prospects for wooden toys of ...
Clustering around Koppal
Aequs Aerospace to create space for large-scale manufacture of toys at Koppal
Say cheese, says the organised dairy sector
And it has every reason to smile. Covid-19 has triggered a consumer shift towards branded products as ...