The William and Flora Hewlett and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations announced a $9.1 million grant for Pratham, a non-profit organisation, recently to help 60 million children in India get added help in basic math, reading and writing.
The economy could grow at 6-6.5 per cent this fiscal year (2019-20 or FY20), said Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian, revising his earlier estimate of 7 per cent in the Economic Survey. In an interaction with Arup Roychoudhury, he said supply-side measures, including corporation tax cuts, will boost consumption and demand, and non-tax revenue may make up for shortfall in tax revenues.
Many students make the mistake of cramming all that they have learnt at one go. Here's a better plan of action.
If you prepare well for an interview, you can cover up for mistakes you might have made during the Group Discussion.
When you look at a CAT paper, there are two variables which help you maximise your score viz Attempts and Accuracy. Neatly juggling these two parameters will help one score the marks that would be required to get that coveted call from the IIMs.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency which receives and determines the successful applications for H-1B visas, said yesterday that it received 199,000 H-1B applications for the 2018 fiscal year.
In recent weeks, reports have come out from Uttar Pradesh of members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini thrashing couples, shutting down meat shops. Many say that the group formed in 2002 by Yogi Adityanath has been emboldened ever since his elevation to chief minister. Here's a look at the 2-million strong and growing group.
An Indian-born professor collected a leading maths award for work on probability theory and said he planned to use some of the almost $1 million in prize money to aid an Indian town.
A study has found that while men are smarter, men also have to deal with the fact that they are also more stupid than the fairer sex.
The satellite radio bigwigs remain optimistic despite Capitol Hill, FCC, and NAB objections, not to mention swooning stock prices.
He alleged that the Siddaramaiah government has been releasing jailed killers and they have been 'given opportunity' once again to kill people.
Do you support this move by the US Governors? Do you think Indian would benefit should H1-B visas be increased?
Thirteen governors in the United States have written to senior senators urging the need to streamline the immigration laws in the country.
The government is likely to present a "run-of-the-mill" budget with an fiscal slippage to 3.7 per cent of the GDP in the next fiscal from an earlier target of 3.5 per cent, a Nomura report says.
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, launches a special initiative to help passengers with special needs.
Salam Azad, who lives in New Delhi since his book 'Bhanga Math' ('Shattered Dream') was banned in Bangladesh in 2004, says he is being persecuted by fundamentalists in his country.
Soon after the hurricane struck, Amritanandamayi had sent the head of the centre in California, Bramhachari Dayamitra Chaitanya, to the affected areas to assess the best ways for organisation to help hurricane victims.
PE funds say they have enough money to buy two or three of the indebted companies and the issue is not cash but the management bandwidth to turn them around.
Sabyasachi Mishra who scored a perfect 100 with just two months of preparation shares his study secrets.
Most families had high value currency notes and they used it for making payments during the pre-demonetisation era.
Noted American mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash.
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
Tips from ARKS Srinivas and Rahul Reddy of T.I.M.E (a CAT training institute).
India will be the global host this year for World Environment Day, with the theme "Beat Plastic Pollution".
Here's how you can make buying insurance the cakewalk that it is, says Anit Jain
An Indian-American woman elementary teacher from Texas has been honored by US President Barack Obama at the White House for her excellent work in the field of education.
More than a week after the state-owned oil firms ended a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus on revising fuel prices, petrol and diesel rates have touched record highs.
Rediff readers tell us what their first salaries meant to them.
Mardy Fish beat Ivo Karlovic 7-6, 6-4 to reach the final of the ATP event in New Haven.
There is a near consensus that at least a 25 basis points cut, if not 50, can be expected in the June policy.
After high-tech industry, outsourcing of educational services is now a growing business with Indian teachers tutoring American school children at a far less cost than their US counterparts.
Gone are the days when your CAT preparation strategy meant studying for your strengths and leaving out the weaker areas!
'When Sachin Tendulkar bats, no one in India cares if he is from Mumbai or if he is a Hindu or a Brahmin or whatever.' 'We just want him to win it for India.' 'The same is with Modi and the people who voted across caste and regional lines for him.' We want him to win it for India,' says Madhu A K.
Some 230 kilometres from Kolkata, in West Bengal's Birbhum district, 500 children stand out because of their 'unconventional' education, says Anjuli Bhargava.
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