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Driving demand down for rural job scheme

Scheme faces pincer attack with a proposed higher proportion of expenditure on material, reducing the budget available to pay wages and focus on implementing it only in 2,500 blocks

Picking up after Hudhud

Days after the cyclone devastated Visakhapatnam, author visits the city and finds it struggling to get back on its feet

Dholera: Modi's pet project back on the fast track

Armed with green nod and fund infusion, Gujarat govt getting ready to issue tenders to build infrastructure at the mega investment region

Chinese slowdown cheers some, worries many in India Inc

May mean cheaper inputs but also greater competition from imports

Time for tax authorities, corporates to adopt a pragmatic approach: GC Srivastava

Penal consequences force taxpayers to report deals that are not taxable: Vijay Iyer

Dreams crash on banks of Balason

Here we look at how children working in stone crushing units of North Bengal do not figure in national child labour statistics

Huge burden on tiny hands: Drops of hope in ocean of despair

In a five-part series, we take a look at the progress or lack of it on child labour in India

Rolling bidis is child's play in this Chhattisgarh village

Take a look at how child workers, though forming the major part of workforce in the bidi industry, are not technically 'labourers'

Ordinance doesn't solve coal sector's core problems

Genuine reform in the coal sector, especially opening it up to commercial mining, has been postponed

Restructuring should precede PSU disinvestment

The disinvestment target of the government for 2013-14 is Rs 58,000 cr

'Duty credit scrips can be used to pay customs duties in cases of default'

More SC rules on bouncing cheques

Any misrepresentation in prospectus is treated as fraud

Sugar mills face bitter reality at festival time

The Supreme Court has upheld the Allahabad High Court's directive to mills to sell sugar pledged with banks to pay cane farmers. This might make things worse for the industry, which is already mired i

What Arvind Subramanian's June report card said about govt reforms

Leading economist and now chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian had graded the Modi govt's early reform measures

Rajiv Mehrishi: Key tasks await Raje's right-hand man in Delhi

The new economic affairs secretary believes that doing more of the same cannot help; you must do things differently

Falling crude prices redefine the new normal in oil markets

Thanks to a supply glut, it now looks like 100-110/bbl will be the ceiling rather than the floor in the oil markets.

Modi mantra: Lean Cabinet, not so lean PMO

Four Nobel-winning insights that matter for the Indian economy

Jean Tirole's insights are very relevant to India