Start-up Belong.co uses an unconventional way of hiring that trusts more on data available on social media or tweets than the resume.
It has forced some institutes to slash their tuition fees by up to 25 per cent.
Parth Gupta quit a good corporate job to work for the welfare of farmers in rural Madhya Pradesh.
'After toiling in the field and selling vegetables in the local market, we don't make more than Rs 1,500 a week.' 'That is just enough for the five of us to survive.' 'My family cannot afford to pay for private coaching for IIT-JEE.'
Three Indian-American researchers have shown that the fingerprint-based security systems used in smartphones and other gadgets are way more vulnerable to hacking than we imagined.
'Any person who wants to enter this service should have a single object of serving the public irrespective of hindrances.'
The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women has helped many girls move up the ladder with a business education and liberal arts and find what they really want or are suited to do.
Meet 28 year-old Dusyant Sridhar who is a techie by day and an Upanyasakar after work, giving discourses on ancient scriptures.
Rathika Ramaswamy's love affair with wildlife photography began in 2003, when she took pictures of birds at the Bharatpur bird sanctuary. That love affair -- captured in her lens -- bloomed! And how!
She had got 849th rank in the 2014 civil services exam and was allotted the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise).
Talented students in small towns often don't get into national-level colleges simply because they don't get proper training to write entrance exams. Ignus is working to change that.
The OrcaPod is a prototype of what comes after boats, cars, trains and planes. It's India's foray into what Tesla founder Elon Musk calls the 'fifth form of transportation' and India's only entry at the ongoing Hyperloop competition by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, and Consultancy Development Centre, New Delhi invite applications for its correspondence MS Consultancy Management programme for working professionals.
Overseas consultant NNS Chandra shares crucial advice for students aspiring to study abroad.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to US admissions.
'Younger children don't really distinguish based on class, gender, income and so on.'
Swiggy, a Bengaluru-based food ordering and delivery start-up, says it aims to revolutionise this segment.
'If you yourself don't believe in the product, you will never be able to sell it.' 'If you have got the basics right, if you have understood the consumer needs well, success will always follow.'
It's important that you plan in advance and practice giving mock tests or test series.
'Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai? Don't you believe it. I don't trust the Chinese one bit,' Nehru told Gopalaswamy Parthasarathi before he traveled to China as India's ambassador. Asking GP to be ever vigilant, Nehru advised the diplomat to send telegrams on important matters only to him. Many such anecdotes from a long and eventful career as diplomat and bureaucrat crowd the pages of GP: 1912-1995, discovers Uttaran Das Gupta.
LocalOye is a Bengaluru-based marketplace for local household and personal service providers.
Vinod Kumar, Tata Communication CEO has amazing business strategies to enhance topline.
'Every educational institution should have incubating centres so that students will get exposed to entrepreneurship early.'
Besides the Joint Entrance Exam that we all know of, here are some more that are equally competitive.
And the way to a cure begins with conversation.
Prince William and Princess Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, collected quite a few Mumbai hearts on a hot two days in April.
Besides a great idea, it takes pluck, and some luck, to get going.
There's no steam in the intolerance debate anymore but the opposing sides still refuse to let it go, says Sampath.
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