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Altering Punjab's caste equations

The Punjab experience suggests rising agricultural productivity doesn't automatically translate into better jobs,but the story doesn't end there.

A perfect storm threatens Maharashtra's cotton farmers

A delayed monsoon and abundant cotton in the international market could spell trouble in the state's suicide zone

Women on night shift: A lesson from Tamil Nadu

Factories Bill seeks to overhaul labour laws

The Bill acknowledges the reality of women at the workplace, increases worker safety and reduces the days an employee must work to be eligible for annual leave

Aman Sethi: A tale of one project and four states

The fracas around the Polavaram project suggests de-bottlenecking inter-state infrastructure might be harder than expected

Back to the future in Vidarbha

How a new-old planting technique could make rain-fed cotton planting more viable

India, China and crude politics

In Reliance-government dispute, who arbitrates the arbitrators?

The KG-D6 dispute between the government and Reliance has been marred by controversies over the appointment of arbitrators

Silicon Valley start-up Uber may find India ride bumpy

Plans to turn people's private cars into part-time taxis, but domestic laws and price-sensitive consumers might come in the way

Questions over Reliance arbitrator in KG gas row

Company refutes allegations of partiality

Losses all round for producing UP's sugar

Farmers wonder why mills need interest-free loans to pay arrears, while growers struggle with rising interest costs

The Ekta Club comes of age

The rebellion by a group of young women over common land in Sangrur exemplifies a newly assertive Dalit youth. The author witnesses the clash of the castes in Punjab

In Punjab, migrant paddy workers reap unlikely harvest

How a law to conserve groundwater led to a better paid and better organised migrant workforce

Marx is dead, and I don't feel too good myself

Labour law reform unlikely to kick-start manufacturing sector

Rise of contract labour means changing laws unlikely to change the way India Inc does business

India skilling the willing, but it isn't paying

Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees

The bureaucrat in his labyrinth

Former Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi's book is a paean to the elections and their quinquennial recurrence

In Assam, a thumping victory means more uncertainty

A Bodo leader blamed Muslim population for likely defeat of her party's candidate in Kokrajhar

Erosion, not immigration, driving Assam violence

While immigration has dipped sharply, 418,350 acres of agricultural land have been eroded by the Brahmaputra

Assam reaps bitter harvest of an election campaign of hate

BJP paints region's Muslims as Bangladeshis, Congress ally BPF threatens community for voting an independent candidate