Consultant, critic, fiction writer, columnist and theatre director and novelist Vijay Nair recounts his seven-day trekking experience to Sikkim.
As India celebrates Raksha Bandhan this weekend, we bring you a short story by Indian-American author Rituparna Chatterjee from the book 'Celebrate: Your Fun Festival Handbook Rakhi And Bhai Dooj'.
Book excerpts -- adapted as an interactive quiz -- from Vijay Nair's The Boss Is Not Your Friend, to find out what kind of a boss you work with.
This Raksha Bandhan, give your sibling a present with a difference.
Vijay Nair author of The Boss Is Not You Friend tells readers how to butter their bosses just before appraisals and how to identify if your boss is dumb.
The government has been gearing up to place tighter restrictions on the import of 371 items - ranging from toys and plastic goods to sports items, and furniture worth $127 billion.
Tamil Nadu's finances most stressed, with gross fiscal deficit estimated at Rs 31,830 crore.
Leaders of the opposition parties had on Friday met Naidu and handed over the notice of impeachment against the chief justice of India bearing signatures of 64 MPs and seven former members, who recently retired.
We bring you an excerpt from former TV writer Venita Coelho's book 'Soap', which discusses a career in Indian television and also serves as a handbook for beginners who want to make a career behind the camera.
'We would do well to encourage all Indians to participate in democracy by contesting and laws that prevent or deter individuals and parties should be relooked at,' says Aakar Patel.
Rani Mukerji is one of the many Indians who will promote Bollywood at the ongoing TIFF.
Liked Katrina's look in Bharat? Now, you can wear it!
Despite the sub-prime mortgage crisis taking hold in industrialized nations, the overall global economy was still growing in 2007, a new United Nations report says.
India Gandhi National Open University invites applications for admission to the following programmes for the session commencing July 2007
The Indira Gandhi National Open University invites applications for its Diploma Programme in Aquaculture.
Indian author and compiler of Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul Raksha Bharadia discusses the book and gives tips to aspiring writers.
A section of teachers and student outfits have come out against the handbook on sex education prepared for children studying in ninth and eleventh standards, alleging the content it discussed bordered on pornography.
An articulate ex-banker and a chartered accountant by training, Piyush Goyal is particular about numbers.
Surge in UPI transactions is because of an increased consumer interest in making bill payments and recharging mobile phones online, and purchase of non-essential goods on e-commerce platforms.
The government has also prepared two handbooks for imparting adolescence education, covering preparedness to\nhandling bomb threats.
This is despite the private sector companies outperforming their public sector counterparts, reports Sachin P Mampatta.
'If you are so blinded by the Buy American, Hire American policy, if you are not going to be fair, consistent and welcoming, in the end America will lose out.'
'Sex and drugs are part of the world. I do not see why desi people should pretend they do not exist, or are 'Western' issues,' says Neeraja Viswanathan.
An 18-year-old student from India has been arrested in the United States on charges of rape after he was accused of entering the room of another student and sexually assaulting her.
Images from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Tuesday night.
'I am sure Dr Patra will get the fullest cooperation from the finance minister who needs workhorses, not prima donnas constantly looking to improve their CVs,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
BCCI's senior officials feel that allegations of domestic violence levelled by Mohammed Shami's wife Hasin Jahan are completely under police jurisdiction and they have nothing to do with it.
Amit Mistry was a wicked actor, someone who could chance a broken arm, who could take deep dives, who could ram his head into walls, all without bothering about the outcome. And, as with that closing bit, the knowledge of where he might have arrived at eludes us now, observes Sreehari Nair.
The only reform that has been adopted was 'handbook for Disabled cricketers' which BCCI has released, which is point No. 8 as per first timeline.
The one-size-fits-all approach adopted by the AICTE is not suitable for regulating business schools in India, argues Asish K Bhattacharyya.
'No one seems to have looked at the extent of money that is being borrowed by individuals, and the rising levels of household debt.' 'At their present rates of growth, personal loans in India could well become the largest category of bank credit in just two or three years,' cautions T N Ninan.
The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission had in a report last year proposed a unified regulator for the entire financial sector -- markets, insurance, commodities and pension. It had, however, proposed to keep banking out of its purview for now.
We are becoming more cruel and less civilised
The order has, however, not gone down well with the employees, with the president of the UP Secretariat Employees' Association, Yadavendra Mishra, saying that such attempts were aimed at harassing government servants.
'If questioning and dethroning hierarchies is your primary motive, why not put an end to the practice of announcing your shining star, your box office draw, in big flaming letters and mentioning everyone else's name in small font at the bottom of the screen?' asks Sreehari Nair.
Sukanya Verma identifies 10 varieties of desi parents you just can't miss in Hindi movies.
'Never suited & booted' Little Eye Labs team looking forward to move to the social media giant's California headquarters.
Allowing it to lapse leaves you unprotected and can, in some cases, cause loss of premiums paid, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh.
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