'That is the one headline the world is reading about India this week, and it is a potentially damaging story...' 'I don't think a panic mentality has set in, but this story is one that investors and market watchers are absolutely seized with.'
Only NIIF has stayed the course as a viable infrastructure financing institution.
'We go through 18 years of school and college, but we lack many necessary skills.' 'The biggest lessons we need, to live life, are somehow not taught, and they are only learned on the job.' 'My intention, through my content, my books, and my start-ups, is to make college kids become life ready.'
Venture Intelligence data shows that during January to July 2020, investors infused $998 million in 31 deals. The total number of deals reported in 2019 was 42 worth $404 million.
Byju's, says Anita Kishore, has given the founders of the businesses it has acquired the independence to operate separately and maintain their core culture.
The future belongs to the young; not the old, asserts Shyam G Menon.
'Ideally, children should go to a university if they know what they want to gain from it, not because everyone else is going.'
These self-appointed well-wishers of AMU are basically for the control or police model of university governance. They have no faith whatsoever in the democratic functioning of the universities, observes Faizan Mustafa, former dean, Faculty of Law, and Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University.
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The Alibaba tycoon is all about Love Quotient, not IQ or EQ.
HR Guru Mayank Rautela offers practical advice.
While the Delhi government announced that schools will not be allowed to hike fees during the lockdown period and only tuition fee will have to be paid, Maharashtra has said parents can lodge complaints with district education officers if schools demanded fees. The Gujarat government had on Monday announced that private schools will not hike fees for an year. The West Bengal government has appealed to schools to refrain from hiking fees.
It's also among the top five most valuable Internet companies in India, reports Yuvraj Malik.
The op-ed ends with a call to the world to work shoulder to shoulder to end hate, violence and suffering.
Many of the stories, the pictures going out of India worldwide lately with these provocative processions, taunting of Muslims, bulldozers targeting mostly their properties, the sweeping 'othering' of a community of 200 million are painting the front pages and TV screens in the democratic world. That is where most of the friends we covet lie. Soon enough, these will also make our vital friends among the Muslim nations, from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, uneasy. The best time for course correction is now, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
This year's Laureates have shown how the problem of global poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into a number of smaller - but more precise - questions at individual or group levels, he Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Path-breaking tennis ace Sania Mirza takes pride in the fact that many of India's sporting stars, outside cricket, are women even though she believes that it will take a few more generations before being a sportswoman is seen as a natural career choice in the country. The winner of six Grand Slam titles, spoke on a range of issues including the role of parents and attitude of coaches towards women players during a webinar organised by the All India Tennis Association and the Sports Authority of India (SAI).
'A Colourful World is for every child, telling them that like the different coloured crayons in a box, they should also appreciate their differing identities, shine and live peacefully with other human beings in our colourful world.'
Schoolteacher Nandini Anandkumar didn't let the lockdown get her down.
'Now, no one can stop me from making music till the day I die.'
What the Indian economy looks like next January will influence her view on India, not her genetics, notes Shekhar Gupta.
'Hybrid learning is the future, and test prep is a big segment within the entire education space in India.'
'You do not need to roar to be a tigress.'
The one common thread that we see across these jobs is that they are all highly human-centric, points out Ramesh Kumar.
HR Guru Mayank Rautela offers practical advice.
What is really needed is a tenure track where higher pay goes with accountability, not peer review which tends to favour the upward drift of the incumbent mediocrity.
Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale.
He had come in search of jobs in America to rescue his presidency and India failed him in more ways than one, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Continuing with the same behaviour while things around you change is a sure recipe for failure. Successful leaders will demonstrate agility and adaptability.
Miss Teen World 2019 Sushmita Singh shares her inspiring journey to the top.
Rediff readers tell us about their first salary.
The Rs 19,100 crore 'Indian film industry' is more than its monikers for three simple reasons, feels Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
It is important to understand the resources that each boarding school offers.
UNICEF India has teamed up with social media influencers to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene.
"We are committed to building a new India. We have to do this as early as possible," he said.
'We want to be in kids' learning like what Disney is to kids' entertainment.'
'The cold weather of Delhi was thawed away completely by the warmth of the prime minister,' says Kshitija Desai.
'Safest' looks like a phone booth, but is a state-of-the-art mobile COVID-19 testing lab.
The best choices in life are the ones you don't make.
Amartya Sen was the other Presidency alumni to win the Economics Nobel. Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize along with two others - his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
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