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An excerpt from the strategy paper is presented related to digital agriculture in India that focuses on usage of smart phones by farmers for management of farming services along with assistance through Application Programming Interfaces (API).

The article discusses the author's view on the decisions of Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan. Topics include presentation of the paper “Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?" at the 2005 high-powered economists' annual gathering in Chicago, Illinois, lending rate cut proposal in January 2015, and Rajan's statement of focusing on domestic and regional growth demand in India for reducing crony capitalism.

The article discusses the consultation papers on net neutrality by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as of July 2016 (TRAI). These consultation papers include one that prohibit telecommunication and Internet firms to charge or offer discriminating tariffs for data services. It argues that net neutrality is a tricky issue and that TRAI's approach in achieving net neutrality has only created confusion.

The article discusses that businesses in India are slowly losing confidence in the country's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) due to slow reform in business reforms. Statistics indicating the bleak business sentiment among Indian businesses and discussing factors such as hiring, cost of raw materials, and business investment are featured. In addition, the opinions of Indian corporates including Harsh Pati Singhania, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, and Ajay Shriram are also mentioned.

The article looks at how recently successful entrepreneurs are increasingly turning into angel investors for individual start ups in an attempt to give back. It discusses the increase in the number of angel investors, the various types of funding provided and the motivation to provide value and experience. Additional topics include investment details for Kunal Bahl, Sachin Bansal, and Naveen Tewari, founders of electronic commerce stores Snapdeal, Flipkart and InMobi.

The article discusses competition between automobile manufacturers Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai Motor India. Topics include strategies by sales and marketing head Rakesh Srivastava and president B.V.R. Subbu of Hyundai, technological innovation, and Hyundai India's head Bo Shin Seo's interaction with shopfloor employees resulting in better productivity and cost reduction. Graphs and charts of Hyundai's sales and net profit trend, market share and sales figures in passenger cars sector are stated.

The article discusses the problems that will come in the way of building 100 smart cities in India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that 100 cities will be developed into smart cities and allocated Rs. 7,060 crore in the 2014 Union Budget. However, the article stipulates that nothing has been done in order to make a city smart. Some of the basic things required are an integrated transport system and automated solid waste collection.

The article discusses the measures taken by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for creating various employment portals and a steady economic growth. It focuses on programmes like Make in India for encouraging entrepreneurs to invest in India, and suggests reducing central excise taxes and import duties on goods. Various laws which hamper employment and measures to create more employment opportunities are discussed.

The article discusses the need for India to adopt sustainable concepts in businesses focusing on financial sustainability, economic security, and energy conservation. Topics include increase in urbanization, environmental problems, power crisis in India, decline in agriculture production and energy production, efforts of the government in improving infrastructure and power reliability, development of renewable energy, inter-dependance of energy and water and water conservation.

The article discusses a need for India to focus on it's education systems to ensure a long term growth of the country's economy focusing on transformation of the quality of education delivered in schools and colleges. Topics include importance provided to skill development, monitoring of educational outcomes and standardized assessments for student performance, Skill India scheme by Indian government, education reforms, educational accountability, and educational technologies.

The article discusses harnessing the power of the youth in India to drive economic development. Topics include how the need of job creation in India to drive the economy, reforms that are needed in the sectors of land and labour, and the suitability of India when it comes to economic entrepreneurship and ease of doing business.

The article discusses the issue of contract laborers and their pay scales faced by the manufacturing sector in India which is similar to the condition of automaker Maruti which faced labor strife in its Manesar plant in India after the death of a management representative. Topics include the low emphasis on human resource management (HR) resulting in supervisors who fail to handle irate laborers, the lockout at Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd., and a chart related to various lockouts is presented.

The article focuses on several acts including the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 and Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act 1933, which the new government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi need to reform to solve unemployment, corruption and economic issues. Topics include the APMC act resulting in unfair pricing, the drugs acts requiring simplified drug discovery procedure, and extension of direct-to-home licences under the Telegraphy Act.

The article discusses the influences of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the economic improvements in India. Factors arising for Modi's regime includes the water management of the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) goals in attaining economic progress and long-term plans for the welfare of Indian people. A comparison diagram depicting the political and economic regimes of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Modi is also presented.

The article focuses on the professional career of two women entrepreneurs in India such as Gauri Singh, founder of The Maids' Co. and Pushpa Poojaarthy, chief executive officer (CEO) of Saloni Malhota. It examines the working condition of women in the country wherein they work as cooks, cleaning ladies and nannies. It notes that the economic opportunities offers an option to the Indian women to work from home.

The article discusses the fifth edition of journal "Business Today" Morningstar Asset Allocation Survey of fund managers regarding allocation of money in equity in the coming year and global markets as of April 2014. Topics include all fund managers expect a sustained rise in foreign inflows, a majority of fund managers do not expect the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to sharply cut interest rates in the next one year and more fund managers than before expect the rupee to appreciate.

The article discusses the approval of stake sales by the Indian government ib three-state companies as part of its disinvestment programme. The author talks about the sale of shares in Coal India (CIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) and hydropower company NHPC. The decision is part of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's divestment target of 58,425 crore rupees.

The article talks about the statement issued by the US Trade Representative (USTR) for reviewing intellectual property rights (IPR) in India, after the discussion between India and the U. S. on IPR patent law. Topics include IPR and bilateral relations between U.S. and India, IPR patent disputes in pharmaceutical industry in India, and copyright violations in publishing and film industry in India.

The article focuses on Indian business schools programs for working professionals who do not afford to take sabbatical for further studies. Topics include courses offered by business schools including Bridge School of Management, India Education Services, and Onyx Education; advantage of honing management skills during work, employer supported education, and flexibility of course structure; and online distance education to solve practical management problems.

The article discusses the challenges and opportunities of new public funded management institutes in India. Topics include need for better facilities, air connectivity and faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kashipur, India; impact on placements compared to old public funded management institutes; and comments from Gautam Sinha, director of IIM-Kashipur and Prafulla Agnihotri, director of IIM-Tiruchirappalli, India.