Agriculture is the foundation of Indian economy as more than 58% of the population is dependent on it for their livelihood, yet it is facing a variety of problems including the use of outdated equipment, improper infrastructure, and farmers unable to access a wider range of markets with ease while making just limited profits on crop sales. The Government of India has been working incessantly towards upliftment of the farmers of the country but paramount encumbrances persist that has crippled the growth prospects of the agricultural sector. The era of social apps, digital media and pure internet companies have taken over the platform of marketable goods, but technology always remained aloof from the purview of agriculture. At this point of time when the population is continuously increasing exponentially and the demand for better quality and higher quantity of food is required, the performance pressure on farmers is increasing. Therefore, Agritech startups are emerging as the pertinent solution across the agricultural value chain and they can be in the form of a product, a service or an application. There is a decent growth of startups in the country which needs a strong push if we want the agriculture sector to flourish. India has already built a strong name for itself in the global startup community. It’s time to make Agritech startups successful and propel India forward as a leader in the agricultural technology sector too. The paper is focused on studying the agricultural sector in detail with the objective of enumerating the challenges being encountered by the farmers of the country. The paper also focuses on studying the relevance of union of technology and agriculture in the form of Agritech startups. In addition to that, the paper also defines the varied sub-sectors of the Agritech startup Ecosystem.

This study is an effort to examine the relationship between Multitasking, Job Stress and Performance through a survey data from students who will be the future managers. In order to study the relationship between variables under study, the data was collected from 10 students who will be future managers on the basis of purposive non random sampling technique. Out of the questionnaires distributed, 95 sets of questionnaires were found fit for analysis. The data were analyzed by using Karl Pearson’s correlation analysis by applying MS- Excel (2007) and SPSS (21.0). The results of the study revealed that Multitasking and stress having a positive relationship among themselves; as the persons more indulge in multitasking they feel more stressed than the people who do not multitask. Therefore, it was found that job stress and performance are positively correlated with one another. Moreover, the students, who are future managers, accept multitasking as a part of their lives and believe that it help people to enhance their performance.

Innovation is one of the key factors for the economic growth of any country. One of the major benefits of Technology Park is that these parks promote innovation. An investment in innovation and technology leads to increase in productivity which further leads to economic growth and a higher standard of living. Technological innovation is an important component which endorses productive variations in the quality and quantity of knowledge through the procedure of development and advancement that further facilitate prompt changes in the economy and generate long-term economic growth (Fallah and Ibrahim, 2004). The objective of the study is to elaborate the evolution, growth and contribution of Technology Parks as intrinsic incentive for industrialization of Punjab and analyze the relevance of Technology Parks for Industrial Development of Punjab. For evaluating the relative effectiveness of technology parks on Punjab’s industrialization over the study period, the stepwise regression has been deployed and it is found that the studied firms have shown acceleration in employment, sales turnover and productivity and this increment is highly significant throughout the study period in-question. The investment in technology parks has helped the region to achieve its goal and hence the performance of technology parks has been significantly effective in Punjab’s industrialization

Indian Gems and Jewellery Industry is one of the largest in the world. It contributes near about 29% to the global jewellery consumption. The sector is home to around 3,00,000 gems and jewellery players. Due to high faith in family jewellers (usually unorganised) that have been offering traditional jewellery at competitive prices over generations, this sector has come to be dominated by unorganised players holding about 70% of domestic jewellery market. But as a result of certain stringent regulatory measures taken by government like demonetization, Aadhaar linking, PAN card requirement, mandatory hallmarking, GST and also under the influence of various non regulatory measures like changing customer preferences, increasing urbanisation etc., the Indian jewellery market is moving on a structural path towards a formal economy. The trend of getting formalised is prompt in some sectors but shift from unorganised to organised jewellery retailers seems to happen at a comparatively slow pace. So, this paper makes an attempt to examine the growth and profitability of organised jewellery retailers under the impact of certain government initiatives and study the changing mindset of Indian consumer towards gold jewellery due to growth of branded jewellers. The research findings suggest that the organised retail jewellers are showing a positive trend so far as their net profits and return on capital employed are concerned and their share in market is expected to increase in the coming years.

The continuous decline in groundwater table due to the monoculture of paddy and wheat, heavy use of pesticides to increase in crop yield causing health-related problems, mismatching in demand and supply of produce in terms of quality and quantity, decline in farm income are compelling the farmers and the state government to rethink of agriculture system in Punjab. The conventional cropping pattern seems unfit to cater the demand of modern society. Contract Farming is the hope for farmers’ survival in this modern world; hence the paper in hand is an effort to compare Contract Farming and Non- Contract Farming in terms of gross and net income. To achieve the objective, total 497 farmers engaged in both Contract Farming and Non- Contract Farming of four districts of Indian Punjab, namely Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, and Jalandhar were involved in the study

In Financial Management, Dividend decision occupies a predominant place due to its future repercussions on financing and investment decision of a corporate entity. There have been numerous studies relating to the impact of dividend decision on shareholders wealth. The present study focuses on the impact of dividend decision on shareholders wealth in case of Information Technology & banking companies in India. Both IT and banking companies play a major role in bringing India at the forefront at international level. Thus the paper contributes to the existing knowledge by focusing on the impact of dividend policy on the market price per share of Indian IT and banking companies. For the purpose of the study a sample of 68 IT companies and 23 banking companies listed on NSE Ltd. has been taken for a Period of 4 years from 2015 to 2018. The results indicate that Dividend per share has a positive bearing on market Share in both IT and banking companies. Some other variables of dividend policy i.e. net income, retained earnings and sales have supported a significant positive relationship with MPS in banking companies. Thus dividend per share, retained earnings and size are significant determinants of share price

EMH states that the stock market is efficient enough; no past information and trading behavior of investor can affect it. But, behavioral finance is the study of the influence of the psychological factors on financial markets evolution. It is a relatively new and high impact concept which offers an interesting substitute to classical finance. The classical finance presumes that capital markets are efficient, investors are rational and it is not possible to outperform the market by taking edge on the past information. The present study has chosen the two calendar anomalies: Turn of the month and holiday effect to explore the impact of the same on the working of Indian Stock market as presumed by the researchers after finding their existence. But, these anomalies were not found in the market, hence the Indian Stock Market has been observed efficient.