'His simple lifestyle, his optimism, his hard work and his genuine humility made him an authentic role model to millions of children, many of them growing up in challenging circumstances.'
What connects P S Jayakumar of Bank of Baroda, V Vaidyanathan of Capital First Ltd and Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan?
Narendra Modi's positive engagement with Barack Obama has well and truly washed away the doubts and slights of the past.
'Where was cement 100 years ago?' 'Why do we need harmful building materials when we have so much in nature around us?' Geeli Mitti founder Shagun Singh tells Samali Basu Guha.
Kavitha Kuruganti has been fighting for decades to ensure farmers are respected and get their due from the Indian nation. In order to ensure they don't struggle for a living, she works to ensure sustainable farm livelihoods and farmers' rights.
'If they are not ready for a 10 to 20 year journey, they should not become entrepreneurs.'
'You can't take jobs to people, you have to take people to jobs.'
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal unveiled the party's manifesto for the youth. The party, which is aiming to capture power in the state, will come out with separate manifestos for different sections of society.
And the way to a cure begins with conversation.
Parth Gupta quit a good corporate job to work for the welfare of farmers in rural Madhya Pradesh.
India has 53 achievers on the list, second only to China which has 76 honorees.
N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem.
Successor Anandiben Patel isn't having an easy time, with a protest movement by her own community and new challenges in keeping the mandate
But it scores high on firm dynamics - which is partly accidental, as it benefits from high labour turnover.
Rohini Bhajibhakare won't waste a moment on this statistic because she has far more important things to do.
Education remains one of the key focuses of the new government.
The role of AI spans coaching, performance, learning, engagement and career growth.
'The economy will pick up in 2020 or a little later... When it picks up, will it reach 10%, 8% or still lower? It all depends on how realistic are the diagnosis and the prescriptions that follow,' says Professor K J Joseph.
The deal would allow Japan to export nuclear technology to India.
'The number of deaths attributable to warming is likely to rise in the future.'
Opposition said saying it lacked vision and road map to execute ideas.
KV Kamath has had a tough journey so far.
What work in Jaipur's favour are lower costs, a good talent pool, better quality of life, and proximity to the Delhi National Capital Region
Honda cars has strengthend market share in India in the past five years.
Andhra Pradesh now comes third in ease of doing business.
While the government has claimed significant increase in funds for farm credit, PMKSY and PKVY, facts show a different story.
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College at Tilonia in Rajasthan, was awarded the Clinton Global Citizen Award at a ceremony in New York on September 25.
'Narendra Modi is single-handedly changing the formula to win elections. With money, human resources, mobile technology, the Internet, advance planning and tremendous confidence, he has spread his image more in UP villages than in urban areas.' Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt reports from Lucknow on how Team Modi is changing the rules of the election game.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.
'Charging that some main political parties are trying to "dangerously" disturb the communal harmony in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday warned such forces of stringent action.
The Alams saw the magical spot while on a drive to the hills. A few years later they set up home and a small hand woven shawl business, hiring local weavers, using local wool and natural colours made of root, stem and flower.
'Every disease has traits and we have found out that actually 99 per cent of people who have got COVID-19, should recover.'
One solution to India's challenges of education, employment, employability lies in state governments adopting apprenticeships on a large scale.
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something close to it.
Few Harvard graduates are changing the way we teach students.
Sudha Murty worries that India has still not learnt its lessons from history.
ITC is one of those few enterprises in the world that has traversed a 100 year journey and has yet managed to remain contemporary, relevant and competitive.
The RSS realises that with a majority BJP government at the Centre and in several states, now was the best time to undermine and perhaps outdo the Congress-Left 'stranglehold' over campuses and young minds.
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