The transition to electric vehicles cannot be rushed into without a master plan involving all stakeholders

BSNL, market leader till about a decade ago, has been hit by inadequate investments, inefficiencies and a lack of strategic vision. Thomas K Thomas and Nandana James report

A new smart speaker turns on the lights and pumps out the music for your bash

What lies ahead for India’s auto sector, probes Parvatha Vardhini C

Whether it’s Coimbatore, Pune or Chennai, auto-component makers have hit a speedbreaker. BusinessLine reports

Online players are taking steps to protect their seller-partners

Undercutting by online aggregators has made business unviable, be it food delivery, hotel booking or cab services, complain offline operators. How to deal with digital disruption, is the question

Kodagu farmers remember the hillside crashing down on their plantations following heavy rains

Speaking to BusinessLine at a farm on the outskirts of Aurangabad, Subhash Palekar, father of ZBNF, rebuts every criticism and allays every fear that have been raised

But Amog Gurave’s experience shows that wider adoption requires measured steps, not a rapid govt push

Cooperatives have played a key role in creating a set of socio-economic institutions in the State. Earlier controlled by NCP and Congress, the BJP has co-opted the cooperative sector leadership and given them tickets

Farmers’ groups raise concerns over cotton crop, rural incomes and cost of clearing stubble

Distraught staff of Jet Airways and IL&FS feel that the bankruptcy apparatus is not concerned about what is due to them

Farmers, reeling under crop losses, feel the Centre’s crop insurance scheme is merely helping insurance firms make profits. Radheshyam Jadhav reports

Fee hike can hit students of low-income groups

It appears to fuse excellence with a non-elitist character in terms of its composition of students. This is unique, report Poornima Joshi & A Srinivas

With land and State resources in short supply, only higher education can challenge social hierarchies, says Satish Deshpande

The Indian renewable energy industry is in a situation of concern but there is no cause for despondency

Recent incentive schemes such as KUSUM are not that popular. Meanwhile, policy flip-flops have hurt investor sentiment. BusinessLine reports

Lies are being spread by the bogus brigade of vested interests, says Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

The protests over CAA-NRC-NPR have acted as a trigger, uniting youth across religious beliefs and communities against police atrocities and attack on freedoms, says Radheshyam Jadhav

Shutdowns in India in 2019 are estimated to have led to a loss of over $1.3 billion. Forum Gandhi reports on the cost and the pain

Small traders of farm produce took a big hit with disruption in online bill processing

Arrests and imprisonment over tax offences have increasingly become commonplace, raising questions of official overreach. BusinessLine reports

Dispute settlement schemes are expected to clear the litigation backlog and ramp up revenues

MGNREGS has created assets that have made farming viable. But funds cutback and rural vested interests can erode its impact. A BusinessLine analysis

In this densely populated area, migrants eke out a living through small trade and businesses. Their fragile lives are too easily broken. Poornima Joshi and AM Jigeesh report

India’s shift to BS-VI standard fuel from midnight of March 31 is one of the most complex logistical challenges the nation has handled. How was it pulled off?