Erik the Red: The viking who founded GreenlandErik the Red, exiled from Norway and Iceland, discovered and named Greenland around 985 AD. His strategic naming attracted settlers from Ic...
26 Jan, 2026, 05.21 PM IST
India-China bonhomie owes much to Trump’s pushIndia and China are cautiously recalibrating trade ties, with Beijing lifting export restrictions on key materials. This follows recent dip...
19 Aug, 2025, 12.53 PM IST
July fourth cookouts face record beef prices amid shrinking cattle supplyAs summer approaches, the price of ground beef has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels in the U.S. A declining cattle supply, worsened by d...
01 Jul, 2025, 02.41 PM IST
US port strike disrupts hamburger supplies, frozen seafoodThe labour strike blocks everything from shipments of automobiles to containers filled with Guatemalan bananas and Italian wine from loadin...
03 Oct, 2024, 10.17 AM IST
Add inflation to reasons to worry about climate changeThe future warming could lift global food inflation by 0.9% to 3.3% a year by 2035, according to the study, and total inflation could be 0....
19 Oct, 2023, 09.45 AM IST
Is inflation in a transitory downtrend? How would it matter to the FX market?Inflation has hit multi-decade highs globally due to the coronavirus pandemic. Central banks have tried to fix the problem by raising inter...
12 May, 2023, 02.16 PM IST
Govt's monthly economic report calls for eternal macroeconomic vigilance in these uncertain timesIt said that the US Federal Reserve's balance sheet hasn't started contracting yet and is expanding at a slower pace. The worry would start...
17 Sep, 2022, 04.19 PM IST
View: Economic Survey & Budget in sync to turn agriculture into a true wealth creatorBudget has allocated Rs 2.83L cr for agriculture and allied activities, irrigation & rural development.
08 Feb, 2020, 06.14 AM IST
What farmers have to say about Modi government's income support schemeET Magazine travels to 8 states to meet farmers braving the ongoing agrarian distress and hears them out.
04 Feb, 2019, 08.38 PM IST
View: To double farm exports, government needs to halve HindutvaIndia is one of the biggest exporters of buffalo meat. But export economics have been disrupted by Hindutva.
09 Dec, 2018, 01.50 PM IST
Maharashtra's rabi sowing till mid-November trails by 54%As on November 15, rabi crops have been sown on 13.05 lakh hectares, compared with the 28.35 lakh hectare area sown during the comparable p...
22 Nov, 2018, 04.10 PM IST
How Karnataka is transforming state’s humble and traditional food into an urban delightRagi (finger millet), the staple diet food of southern Karnataka was down from 7.88 lakh hectares in 2010-11 to 6.46 lakh hectares in 2012-...
09 Apr, 2017, 11.05 AM IST
Amity and anger over water in a time of drought in KarnatakaIn many parts of drought-stricken north Karnataka, borewells have become the sole beacons of hope – and despair – as people desperately loo...
30 Apr, 2016, 07.05 AM IST
Sonepur ban may hit supply of elephants to KeralaThe Sonepur event is one of the biggest in Asia and will be held in the last week of November. Until last year, it was a marketplace for ca...
07 Nov, 2015, 10.55 AM IST
Enhanced farm production only way to contain food inflation: Radha Mohan SinghAgriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said it wouldn’t be possible to contain inflationary tendency in food prices without ensuring enhanc...
08 May, 2015, 06.30 PM IST
Food prices to stay high, volatility may increase: FAO"Prices are sustained. It is highly unlikely we will see a normalisation of prices anytime soon," said Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economis...
04 Oct, 2012, 03.04 PM IST
- China inflation at 11 year high
China's inflation rate rose to 6.5 per cent in August, the highest in 11 years, driven in part by a 49 per cent surge in the politically se...
11 Sep, 2007, 12.17 PM IST