The BJP-led NDA government probably had the right intention when they knocked on the doors of Ravi Venkatesan, former chairman of Microsoft India and P S Jayakumar, an ex-citibanker turned entrepreneur, for helping them in conducting an experiment of sorts with Bank of Baroda.

Pratham's ASER has helped identify learning gaps among primary schoolchildren.

The EEC's report mentioned that there were no achievements to take into account while assessing the performance of institutions in the greenfield category.

The idea of NIDS was mooted as a possible integrating framework that would enable users of official statistics to have a single view of data available in the official statistical system. 

When you plan to achieve a certain goal, there's a uniformity of thought that enables one to draw up a strategy to reach there. If this is being undertaken at an individual level, it's much simpler but when it comes to an organisation, there's more complexity.

India is building roads at a frenetic pace. The dream of building 40 kilometres a day is within the realm of possibility now.

ASK Wealth Advisors tries to estimate jobs using a completely new methodology -- the Sit-Stand-Go model, which relies on proxies (and some surveys) to come up with the number of about 5 million non-farm jobs being created annually in India.

US President Donald Trump, who ahead of Friday's release of the gross domestic product report had promoted the notion that second-quarter growth would be robust, declared victory.

India has a huge official data and statistics problem and the problem is only growing bigger by the day.

General Electric, an original member of the Dow when it was formed by Charles Dow in 1896 and a continuous member since 1907, will be replaced in the 30-component stock average by drug store chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

Singh said greater emphasis is being given to agricultural education, research and extension activities and extension of the facilities for irrigation, low-cost organic farming, crop insurance, national agricultural market, horticulture development and agro forestry remain focus areas.

The fund houses need to disclose about name of the scheme, base as well as total TER, additional expense and Goods and Services Tax (GST) for regular and direct mutual funds plan in a prescribed format.

There's much to cheer about the 7.7 per cent GDP growth rate in Q4 of 2017-18. Yet, there's still a lot that's not right with the economy. First, despite this smart recovery in Q4, the GDP for the entire fiscal was barely 6.7 per cent - 0.4 per cent lower than the previous financial year.

Unlike last year, the revenue benchmarks have been changed to Rs 1,000 crore and above.

Editor's note by Prosenjit Datta

After a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus, petrol price was today hiked by 17 paise a litre and diesel by 21 paise as PSU oil firms began passing on the spike witnessed in international rates to consumers.