Ambivalence is always fishy. More so when it comes from the finance minister of India on a subject as critical as the frighteningly high food inflation.

If you have been waiting for an opportune time to take that home loan, or a car or education loan, you’d best not defer your decision much longer.

Water is a sensitive item to tax. Many users form vote banks that leaders dare not antagonise.

The recent Sebi diktat to do away with entry loads on mutual funds has resulted in mixed feelings among the three key stakeholders.

What do Marlon Brando, Richard Branson and Sharon Stone have in common?

The monsoon hit Mumbai last fortnight and Mumbaikars are not sure if they should laugh or cry.

... But the rural economy matters more than ever for India. That's not so much of a paradox, explains CRISILCentre of Economic Research in this exclusive column.

The 15th anniversary of BT Pro-Am of Champions draws an impressive CEO crowd in Bangalore.

Poor rains have damaged the summer crop in quantity and quality. As the monsoon whimsy continues, some intelligent government intervention could help save the winter crop.

Five years ago, the UPA's coming to power coincided with a bad monsoon.

A few years back the Prime Minister had announced setting up of the Rainfed Authority of India. One may ask what has been achieved so far?

Forecast of a near-normal monsoon has raised hopes that India’s agricultural growth might stay on track and prevent the GDP from slipping under six per cent.

Ragpicking is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Its Wealth Out of Waste programme shows how a simple habit change can significantly benefit the company, the society and the country. N. Madhavan reports.

Even as the slowdown affects most industries, some enterprising farmers in the districts of Uttara Kannada and Shimoga in Karnataka are smiling all the way to the bank by farming orchids.

Here’s some good news.

The entry of large oil and gas companies is changing this desert district in Rajasthan and promising its people a better life. Barmer's economy seems to be thriving. Kapil Bajaj reports. Inclusive capitalism: The Fabindia wayDream factories of SriperumbudurTata's goodwill gesture in Jharkhand

Falling oil prices, coupled with expectations of a last-gasp burst of reform from a desperately cobbled-together coalition, offer a glimmer of a bear market on its last leg. But the by-now-familiar twin demons of rising inflation and interest rates cloud a promising picture. Virendra Verma reports.

Inflation is a bugbear that continues to give mandarins in the economic ministries sleepless nights. The latest figures show it at 11.98 per cent for the week ended July 19. Sub-normal rainfall in large parts of India can push inflation to 14 per cent.

Banks are proliferating at a rapid pace in the Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu. Over the last two years, 28 new branches have been opened and five more are likely to commence operations soon. N. Madhavan checks out if this would improve the quality of life of the people in this district.

Farmers in Karnataka went on the rampage over the shortage of fertilisers, which has put their kharif crop at risk.