Ivanka spoke for a good 15 minutes, gracefully, looking straight at her audience, her face wreathed often in winning smiles. She is an articulate, striking, woman who charmed her audience.
Vanity Fair's August issue, featuring Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as 1976 Olympic gold medal-winning decathlon champion Bruce Jenner, on the cover was the magazine's best-selling issue in years. Covers featuring tennis aces Serena Williams, Sania Mirza and Maria Sharapova also delighted in 2015. Check them out.
In the day following Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova's admission that she failed a drug test, sponsors Nike, Porsche and Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer dropped her like a hot potato.
Like China, India needs to encourage 'hacker clubs' in view of the challenges of virtual terrorism, says Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd)
While China is bigger and feels mightier at the moment, Beijing's rulers would be well advised not to be tempted to provoke India, for that would only trigger a chain reaction around the world that would not serve anyone's interests, says Sanjaya Baru.
During his lifetime and after, Ambani aroused extreme responses in others.
'The airline business is very dynamic. If you are unable to keep up and lead, you end up last.' 'This is what has happened to Jet.'
This means lower losses on fuel sales by Indian oil companies and a shrinking oil subsidy bill for the government.
Dhirubhai Ambani lived in a one-room chawl in Mumbai with his wife and children and went on to establish the Reliance Group.
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
Will Arundhati Bhattacharya be the RBI's first woman governor? Or will Urjit Patel succeed Raghuram Rajanas RBI governor when his term ends on September 4?
MS Dhoni-led team has lost its number one position to Kolkata Knight Riders.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world.
Belgian-born Rich, whose trading group eventually became the global commodities powerhouse Glencore Xstrata, died in hospital from a stroke.
'It is the regional parties and their leaders who are the ones we have to watch.'
A friendly working environment, special healthcare facilities, flexible work hours, work from home options, support and camaraderie among the team members keep employees highly motivated in these 10 companies.
Over Lebanese delicacies, the daughter of billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla talks money, relationships, her passions and how she outpaced her peers.
A nation that aspires to be a superpower and wants to join the ranks of global leaders in knowledge, science and technology should declare an all out war on ills like superstition and black magic at all levels, says Dinesh C Sharma.
A left-leaning centralised socialist model has created a shortage/entitlement economy. In fact one of the reasons for India's limited progress is that post-independent India is at odds with its true nature. It is something that educated right of centre Hindus are trying to correct, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
Incoming US President Donald Trump has assembled a core team that is -- not surprisingly -- overwhelmingly white and male.
'In 1981 when I had a project in Qatar, those in charge told me they would not like Indians in high positions; they felt Indians could work only as drivers, cleaners and labourers.' 'I challenged them and showed that Indians could do great work in all areas.' 'Today, in the Middle East, they insist on having Indians in all fields. Everybody believes Indians are capable, hard working and trustworthy,' Ravi Pillai, one of the most influential businessmen in the Middle East, tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com
'I want to leave behind the bank stronger and better than when I took over.'
The Sochi Winter Olympics are meant to be Vladimir Putin's crowning achievement as Russian leader but are in danger of becoming a symbol of his country's problems.
Raman Roy talks about how this technique put India on the world's business map.
They researched their companies well, didn't believe in the market chatter and advise to stay invested for long term.
Indian billionaires do not believe in sitting on their wealth.
Kapil Sharma, the anchor of Comedy Nights with Kapil, is the hottest property on Indian television today
Newly minted American engineers are going into finance because tech jobs have been offshored.
Europe, led by Switzerland, leads the way as the U.S. falls.
Marketing departments should be managed more like sports teams.
Less than we used to --but we like some banks better than before.
Indian IT company joins Enron, WorldCom and Societe Generale on list of notorious corporate frauds.
Investing for the long term? These companies--the year's Global 100--are sustainable enough to be around longer than you will be.
The global universal banking concept doesn't work and the Citigroup colossus ought to be dismantled as quickly as possible. But the dismantling needs to be done by someone who believes that it's the right strategy for recovering shareholder value.
In a down economy, Qantas starts service of its perk-filled A380 aircraft.
When the recession ends, a new crop of billionaires will be unleashed on the world economy.
Forbes lists the 2000 largest companies in the world.
