CACP’s chairman on why Indian agriculture is trapped in a cycle of mediocre growth and low productivity.

Water is a strategic resource. So strategic, in fact, that it can trigger wars.

Consider this: The government’s revenue mop-up stood at Rs 5.2 lakh crore for the first nine months of 2011-12. The target for the entire fiscal was Rs 8.4 lakh crore.

Instead of giving medicines free only to its own certified poor, the government should subsidise essential drugs for everyone-----------The public distribution system and the employment guarantee s

In 1987, a UN World Commission on Environment and Development report — ‘Our Common Future’ (Brundtland Report) — laid the basis for the concept of sustainability.

Forty per cent of the cars sold in the country are now powered by diesel. The fact that it is 40 per cent cheaper than petrol is the obvious reason.

Economist Jeremy Rifkin, who is credited with mooting the concept of a “Third Industrial Revolution” spoke to BW’s Yashodhara Dasgupta and Suneera Tandon. Excerpts:

Forty per cent of the cars sold in the country are now powered by diesel. The fact that it is 40 per cent cheaper than petrol is the obvious reason.

Science is married to evidence. this evidence is from measurement, observation and experiment.

As world leaders assemble in Durban to chalk out a pragmatic solution to climate change, two experts from different parts of the world identify the problem, but differ on the philosophy of the solu