A coalition of over 150 US-based academicians back Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Silicon Valley next week and counter refute 130 US-based South Asian academics who oppose the Modi visit and his Digital India initiative.
Over lunch with Jyoti Mukul, Banmali Agrawala, president and CEO, GE South Asia, discusses how GE is transforming itself into a digital industrial company.
Pride is all ours and of those who made a beeline to Halls 3 and 5 that showcased indigenous defence technologies at the Make In India Week.
'He may be a scientist, a poet and a brat. And in addition to all this, Virat Kohli is also cricket's No 1 Rollerblade-Artist,' says Sreehari Nair.
'This is a new phenomenon,' says Shekhar Gupta. 'Does it point to the rise of egomania, and could it also be a reason our politics is broken and Parliament non-functional? Where our biggest leaders talk not to, but at each other.'
This start-up connects diners with regional cuisines that restaurants do not serve.
UrbanClap's business model is still a work in progress.
Indian entrepreneurs increasingly looking to sell their products in US
Microsoft CEO holds all-hands-meet with India employees, reiterates thrust on 'mobile-first, cloud-first' strategy
Would you believe if I were to tell you that YouTube was conceived as a video-dating platform?
'We had decided that if the audience liked Stree, then after two or three years we would plan a sequel.' 'Because of the kind of reaction we received for the film we have already started work on it.'
Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta have seen failure and come out stronger.
To the extent that body shopping is replaced by true offshoring, everyone is better off, says Ajay Shah.
'Silicon Valley is the best model for driving growth and innovation. Meeting the right people who care about India is a fantastic step. India today stands out as the large potential global economy for growth.'
The acquisition of ZipDial however has proven that even a proven business model could be an attraction point.
Firms that should borrow abroad do not do so enough, and those that should not borrow abroad do.
The inspiring story of how Saurabh Aggarwal conquered it all with his mobile gaming company Octro.
Google of food, Zomato is keen to do more acquisitions in 2015.
Start-ups have their own sub-cultures their language and ways of working.
10 things you must know about the Girls Who Code founder.
'As they grow bigger, the trail of their pioneering success often leaves behind a causticity marked by deficient human resource practices, negligible focus on corporate governance and rife sexism.'
'We aren't so unreasonable as to demand that he should have fully reversed Indira Gandhi's worst economic legacy, bank nationalisation.' 'But he could have made a beginning by selling off the two most stressed small public sector banks, and then announced that each year for the next 10, one government bank with the most messed-up balance sheet will be sold.' 'It would have electrified the markets, shocked his other banks into better behaviour, and marked his name among the great reformers,' argues Shekhar Gupta.
'People don't like me wearing saris. But I am an Indian drag queen. I will wear a sari.'
Critics say the programme, launched 10 months ago in India in collaboration with operator Reliance Communications, violates principles of net neutrality
Presenting an excerpt from Vaishnavi Nair's debut book OK Now, Who's My Santa?
Recently, ex-Google executive Punit Soni joined FLipkart.
The company hopes to revive its fortune with the move
Congress Vice president Rahul Gandhi's live video chat session appeared to be a last-ditch effort to bridge the gap with party workers and boost their morale with an eye on the coming general election. Anita Katyal reports
'Jaitley should get the GST and multi- brand retail bills passed to achieve 9%+ growth.'
If carmakers don't explore innovations to improve safety, they could be relegated to the garbage heap by new players, says Indrajit Gupta
Anxious? Stressed? Upset? Veenu Sandhu has a handy list of apps that promise mental peace.
She is changing India one village at a time.
The Apple Watch, which will make calls via its attached iPhone, might make that a reality.
It turns out that there is serious money in funny business these days!
Apple CEO landed in Kanpur for IPL match as jet to Vizag was late; he also got to see Lucknow
Users send a message on the app and a virtual assistant responds.
Ever since Indrani's bail plea was denied by the judge her security has been stepped up. The message was clear. If she felt that unsafe she could get all the security she needed. But in jail she stayed.
'You worry when serious people, with control of our and our children's future, begin to start obsessing over social media, seeing it as an easy, lazy, fun, low-cost substitute for boring, old-fashioned practices of politics, governance and serious, fact-based debate,' says Shekhar Gupta.
After 800 days, is it a little clearer that Accused No 1 through 4 are responsible for her death?
'People, who were killed, didn't even know why they were being killed.' 'Because a couple of Sikhs assassinated Indira Gandhi, the whole community had to pay for it.'
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