Some experts says that the high net-worth requirement of Rs 50 crore for setting up an IU is a deterrent.
While online coaching has become a big hit during the lockdown, the path ahead is not easy, reports Rupesh Dutta.
Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees.
Delhi Development Authority's land deal to Reliance Industries throws up larger issues of governance.
'Ex-servicemen engineers and technicians are true professionals worthy of being 'Make in India' agents. They can be trusted to bring long term dividends -- it is in their character to be long term loyalists!' says Air Marshal P V Athawale (Retd).
The problem, say experts, is not so much the use of plastic as the lack of effort to recycle and reuse it.
'I will try to make sure everything runs smoothly from now on.' Is Gajendra Chauhan having the last laugh?
The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised a conducive environment for manufacturers, including a discrimination-free tax system
The construction sector is now India's second-largest employer after agriculture, the trend coinciding with India's high-growth phase and decline in poverty levels
The presence of phosphine in Venus's thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question: Are we alone?
'India has 1 lawyer per 1,000 population.' 'Opportunities in the field of law are plenty.'
India and France on Friday signed 17 agreements, including on the stalled nuclear project in Jaitapur in Maharashtra, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with French President Francois Hollande.
We import from China not because we love China, but because they sell us these things at cheap prices, points out Rathin Roy.
Governing council to meet on Friday to decide his fate afresh
Rohit Nandan, secretary, ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship, talks to Anjuli Bhargava.
'James Crabtree ignores the emergence of a nexus between business and politics going back to the 1920s and talks of it as a new child of 21st century India,' says Shivanand Kanavi.
Bangladeshis are unwilling to give up peace and growing incomes for the chaos witnessed during the BNP-led four-party alliance rule, says Anand Kumar.
'Life should never be unidimensional.' 'While I enjoy doing films, there's still a lot more that I want to experience.'
Cut to 2019, and his name evokes grief and anger among more than 40,000 homebuyers who are fighting for the keys to their flats, which they should have rightfully got more than seven years back.
As deputy governor, Patel headed the RBI panel to draft the monetary policy report, which became the basis of the ongoing reforms at the apex bank
'If Indians are as smart as their counterparts in university, and have equal opportunity, then what is the reason that we cannot produce inventions of quality that are recognised by the world?'
Indications are that Modi will have words of encouragement for Stalin, and the meeting is likely to be much less acrimonious than critics of either would want it to be. notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports
Siddharth Tata's Purple Chilli helps vegetable farmers earn an income 365 days a year.
In a first, Korean scientists have successfully developed genetically modified microbes that can produce gasoline, used as fuel for transportation.
The spacecraft is expected to reach Mars orbit in about 200 days from now and then begin its mission to study the Red Planet's atmosphere.
In fact, given the current tensions and massed troops on both sides, there is a danger that the LAC will become more like the Line of Control with Pakistan, a heavily fortified and strongly defended border where weapon fire exchanges regularly occur. Indeed, Stratfor Worldview research has listed a sharp increase in new Chinese facilities along the LAC in 2019-20.
Some experts argue that India's new growth figures are due to the revised calculation of GDP, which was launched in January
While Indian IT has known what is coming and has a strategy ready to combat it, the same can't be said about the country and the government.
'50% of students lose out because of lack of English language skills.' 'Only 15% to 20% have the functional skills companies are looking for.'
For far too long, people in J&K have felt the government doesn't exist for them.' 'My first priority is to make them feel that not only does it exist, it is there to work for them.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Telugu film industry.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Telugu film industry.
'The writer remains the most creative force in the process.' 'Producers need to be inventive in how they reward good writing.'
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With all the brouhaha over GST, and (often) a limited understanding of the long-term forces shaping India's logistics sector, companies seem to have omitted factoring in some underlying trends that could shape supply chain excellence, says Neelesh Mundra.
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
Rediff readers tell us what their first salaries meant to them.
Godrej and some other firms are frustrated at what they say is the slow execution of projects and lack of government support, which are hampering India's efforts to compete with China and Russia as a cheaper option for launching satellites.
