Being creative and turning every available resource into a business is vital to improving the lives of those in poverty. Poor people often do not need outsiders to tell them about business opportunities.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India is likely to pose a few questions to chief coach Ravi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli depending on how the third Test against England pans out after being left disappointed by the team's meek surrender in the first two games.
Perhaps after Nagarjuna (son of thespian Akkineni Nageswara Rao) made his debut two decades ago, this is another instance of a son following his famous father's footsteps.
Satish Bodas goes pandal hopping and discovers these historically significant ones.
Reliance Industries Limited formally entered the country's fairly young organised retail market through its Reliance Fresh format stores in Hyderabad on Friday while reassuring petty traders that the company was no threat to them.
Heather Knight's majestic maiden T20I century helped England to a record-breaking 98-run victory over Thailand in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup match at Manuka Oval, in Canberra, on Wednesday. In the day's second match, played later, Pakistan claimed the scalp of the West Indies outplaying the 2016 winners in an eight-wicket victory.
Govt fighting 40 cases on six-lane approach road.
'Reports of hitherto 'atmanirbhar' breadwinners having to stand in line for a plastic bag of khichdi or, travelling thousands of kms with nothing but packets of biscuits, have not moved the prime minister,' observes Jyoti Punwani.
A home ministry official said while 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country due to "massive efforts" to check the outbreak, the Centre has written to all states and union territories that "the lockdown measures should be implemented in letter and spirit".
Raman Roy talks about how this technique put India on the world's business map.
Unlike some of India's largest online retailers like Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra and Jabong, which are very secretive about their data and use it to cut better deals with brands than their competitors, the Nykaa monetising its insights. If it is is able to do so without giving away any of its advantages to competitors, it could be on to a winning model.
The Sri Lankan opener struck 61 off 40 balls, including six fours and three sixes, to help Sri Lanka outclass South Africa by five runs in the ICC World T20.
New one-stop shops will redefine how you transact in shares, funds, insurance and debt.
Images from Day 4 of the first Test between India and the West Indies in Antigua.
After Tata group chief Ratan Tata criticised the spectrum allocation criteria announced by the government, GSM cellular operators on Tuesday took potshots at the guidelines, which they said was 'lenient' towards CDMA operators.
What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
Criticising the Congress, he said the parties following the politics of family and dynasty may continue like that, but the BJP government was committed to taking the country's defence and self-respect to their pinnacle.
'I told myself that I would be myself rather than think too much about the game and try too hard, said the young Indian pacer after a haul of 3-67 in England's first innings.
Reliance Retail on Monday ushered in a new retail culture in the national capital region by opening nine western-style food stores as it hopes to become the preferred supplier of push-cart vendors and kirana stores.
These forts are what fairy tales are made of.
The BJP has questioned why the party is exonerated when one of its leaders has been indicted.
England debutant Dawid Malan's hard-hitting 78 helped the hosts to a 19-run victory over South Africa in their Twenty 20 international at Cardiff on Sunday to secure a 2-1 series win.
'The challenge before the two countries is to turn the peak into a plateau and enter an irreversible phase of cooperation,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
There's worse traffic in more cities in India than any other country, and the problem is only growing.
The incident took place on January 13 on Kushinagar Express on its way to Gorakhpur. The trouble began after an unclaimed bag was recovered from the general compartment of Kushinagar Express which contained meat.
Zee and Star, the two largest media companies in India, are undergoing some radical ownership changes. What could it mean? Vanita Kohli Khandekar attempts an answer.
Britain's special forces have reportedly been given "carte blanche" to launch raids inside IS-held territory and direct airstrikes to kill or capture terrorist leaders who pose a threat to the UK.
It goes way beyond a fantastic team!
Google India announced a new social campaign called #ReachForTheSky, in association with MARD initiative.
Kumar, who runs NY Dosa, is a 39-year-old migrant from Sri Lanka. He has been a finalist in the contest thrice. He won the first prize for his Pondicherry Dosa, which is filled with seasonal vegetables.
The seven-times Formula One world champion made clear that he could not see the attraction of NASCAR.
The McLaren driver will leave Formula One at the end of this season to drive in NASCAR.
Bureaucratic insensitivity gave way to compassion with the state administration, police and passersby joining forces to help the stream of Indians fleeing Delhi.
In a tragic incident, a two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother after taking a gun from her purse while she was shopping at a Walmart store in the United States.
Bus driver Sanjay Kumar, who was declared absconding, has been admitted to a hospital in Ganaur.
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