'There appears to be in the Indian polity a link between being Single and being of prime ministerial timber. It is a trend, a preponderance -- not a statistical verity,' says Dr Shashi K Pande.
Go beyond your college classroom. Take part in fests. Pursue an internship, says Abhishek Ajmera.
If people can lobby me for making changes in policies that goes against the country's interest, I won't keep myself in this position, says the vice chairman of NITI Aayog.
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
Finance Commission has got new team who are committed to growth initiatives.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
Is India witnessing jobless growth or is there actually no issue with employment? The real story is between the first two suggesting that though there is sufficient employment, the challenge is to create well-paying quality jobs, says Amitabh Kant.
The Sensex closed down 308 points at 24,894 and the Nifty has lost 96 points at 7,559.
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?
Annabel Mehta, Sachin Tendulkar's mother-in-law, has dedicated her life to working with the Beautiful People of the other half of Mumbai without whom the city would neither exist nor thrive. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel met the amazing lady who was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for her service to underprivileged communities.
Most mainstream researchers agree that good governance is a necessary condition for growth.
In January this year, Tata Sons invested an additional Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) in Tata Teleservices which was used to repay loans of the wireless telephony company.
'The economy may not improve unless you admit there are some problems.'
In the heat and dust of a Baramati rally with Supriya Sule.
The Indian economy was on an impressive growth path through the first decade of this century till it was brought to an abrupt halt by the policy inertia during UPA2 and the Modi government's inability to restore economic and financial momentum. Fascinating glimpses of what went wrong from Puja Mehra's must-read book The Lost Decade: How India's Growth Story Devolved Into Growth Without A Story.
The IMD attributed the projection to a weakening of El Nio and the Indian Ocean Dipole turning positive.
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
It is important to understand that debt investors are a conservative lot and, in general, most such investments are hedged out of foreign exchange risk to simply earn an arbitrage profit, rather than carry the risk to possibly increase their yield.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday addressed the nation on the eve of the 68th Independence Day.
'As India progresses and takes an increasingly hardline approach to Pakistani hostility, the young and restless population of Pakistan, sooner than later, will demand 'Gazwa e Hind' (conquest of India),' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'There are fossils to indicate that there has been a gradual evolution of various body parts leading to very complex organisms like vertebrates, apes and humans.'
Bringing in the untapped informal sector into the formal one will benefit business.
How did the newly anointed heritage city bag the title and is it ready for the expected rush of tourists?
Gimmicks such as appointing high-profile brand ambassadors like Sachin Tendulkar will not work.
Sensex falls at close; metals, banks perform well.
Kolkata's creme de la creme turned up at the launch of Bandhan, The Making of a Bank, but the evening nevertheless had an informal touch typical of the young bank with CMD Chandra Shekhar Ghosh personally welcoming the dignitaries, reports Indrani Roy/Rediff.com.
There is lack of scientific basis in computing the poverty line, says govt.
'India alone cannot walk the path of peace. It also has to be Pakistan's journey to make,' says Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the government's geo-political flagship initiative "Raisina Dialogue-II".
Taking away free healthcare facilities, as recommended by the Aayog, would place a huge burden on the people, especially in rural areas, says Devanik Saha.
The bulk of of trading on stock markets is done algorithmically, by computerised clerks working at the behest of human traders.
Here's a round up of some information the nation learnt from Parliament on Tuesday.
The greatest progress on civil rights in the United States since Abraham Lincoln was under the Southern Democrat Lyndon Johnson, the past master of wheeling and dealing in Congress.
Stock prices is due to valuation expansion
'This survey, done on the basis of feedback from BJP-RSS workers at the booth level, has given Narendra Modi the confidence to start packing his bags in Gandhinagar. on Tuesday, he has done photo shoots with his colleagues and staff.' Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com presents the Sangh Parivar's assessment of how many seats the BJP will win in this election.
Narendra Modi's success at the BRICS summit is the best Diwali gift for India's diplomacy and marks her ascendancy to global leadership, says Tarun Vijay.
What is required from government is intellectual framework.
Currently, the travel time between Mumbai and Delhi varies between 16 and 30 hours.
The plan of UID/Aadhaar-based surveillance does not end with the collection of fingerprints and iris scan, it goes quite beyond it and poses a lethal threat to the idea of India, says Gopal Krishna.
In advanced economies where the financial system is more matured, the form of shadow banking is more of risk transformation through securitisation.
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