Only time will tell how well the rainbow shines in the African sun.
While in India, most bus stops and terminals are dirty and still lack basic amenities, here's how other nations have built superb bus stops creatively.
Arthur J Pais interviews 18-year-old American student William J Oppenheim III, who, along with a few friends, has established the Omprakash Foundation, which links for-free volunteer teachers with more than 100 grassroots educational projects in 26 countries.
Chandra, who will turn 69 years old on Saturday, becomes non-executive director with immediate effect.
Revenue in the fourth quarter rose to $9.87 billion from $7.9 billion in the same period last year.
Goenka, who is the elder son of Essel group promoter and Zee chairman Subhash Chandra, has been MD of the media firm since January 1, 2010.
Tenet is both incredibly obfuscating and feverishly magnificent, says Sukanya Verma.
The housing finance major issued non-convertible debentures and warrants to raise another Rs 4,000.03 crore.
Michael Metz, Chief Investment Strategist of Oppenheimer and Company, does not expect US Fed to increase rates again. Metz feels that the margins of US companies may have peaked out.
De Beers, the world's biggest diamond producer, has appointed its first black managing director who will head its South African operations.
Today, it holds $131 billion in assets under management.
Investors also appreciate the role being played by the founders; analysts, too, remain unperturbed.
The company will finalise the final pricing for allotment of shares later.
With founder Subhash Chandra no longer in the driver's seat at Zee, the acid test for Punit Goenka would be to take the financial investors along with him even as he strives to weather the latest storm. The question, now, is how he will deal with the challenges of being a professional CEO rather than an owner-CEO in the aftermath of his family offloading most of its promoter stake to a clutch of financial investors. However, the silver lining is that Zee remains the most profitable of the top four broadcasters in India.
'Make no mistake, legally Chanda Kochhar was not and still is not obliged to quit.' 'But quitting earlier would have placed her personally and as a leader on a very high pedestal, indeed where she belonged until this lapse,' says S Muralidharan, former managing director, BNP Paribas.
It is rare for communal riots to spread to rural areas. The UP riot is the first time after the September 1969 Gujarat riots that a rural area have been affected. Electoral politics which divide society in majority/minority, going on since the early 1990s, is a major contributing factor to this heightened tension between communities, says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale in the first of a two part series.
The dollar moved higher, while prices for US government debt fell, as traders ramped up bets the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in March
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
A quick look at the Oscar 2016 nominations.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
The 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners.
'This can lift us out of confusion, misery, melancholy and failure, and indeed guide us when it is contacted.' 'For us to ignite our spirituality, we need to look inward and transcend our egos. We need to recognize, connect with and integrate the eternal spirit within,' says A P J Abdul Kalam in his latest book, Transcendence.
Aseem Chhabra picks his favourite movies from the Telluride Film Festival.
