Corporate
A broadsheet feature on Jamshedpur: Here is a model town
One day, the fields will stay green and the earth black, sweet and wet. Our children will grow tall on that earth... -- Victor Das, in the book Jharkhand -- Castle Over the Graves

Ideas unlimited
LEKH. Punji. Visioning. These could be plain old buzzwords for some, but for people at XLRI, Jamshedpur, these meant a lot, if only for two days, thanks to Ensemble, an event that the B-school said showcased `the essence of management education'.

Steel service
TATA RYERSON Ltd, a steel service centre, is seeking to emerge as a solutions provider to customers, covering materials as diverse as plastics, pipes, bearings and agri-implements.

Economy
Certification and agricultural exports: Can Indian farmers cope?
Even as Indian cultivators are exposed to import competition from highly subsidised agricultural production, especially from developed countries, they are being told to diversify production and increase export capabilities in order to survive. But, quite apart from other problems, agricultural exports are increasingly subject to certification and labelling processes which are cumbersome and expensive. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the kinds of national and in ternational regulation which govern world agricultural trade, and consider the implications for Indian farmers.

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