Forty years on, ironically, the managerial attention to new businesses has meant almost 40 per cent of revenues now come from the non-tobacco business.
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.
Will space tourism with a niche market of serving only the uber-rich ever be profitable, asks Kumar Abishek.
Juster, 62, is an old India hand who played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Trump, 74, in his acceptance speech from the South Lawns of the White House amidst cheers from his supporters on Thursday night, said: "My fellow Americans, tonight, with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I proudly accept this nomination for President of the United States".
'There is a maturity of business acumen, maturity of management practices etc, that is what China doesn't have,' says Asia Society President Vishakha Desai.
'If the economic changes in India remain irreversible the chances of the Indo-US relationship staying on course will also be irreversible,' says Asia Society President Vishakha Desai.
Rio rides high on success even before US release.
Qatar has tried to make itself more attractive to tourists and launched a "Summer in Qatar" initiative this year to try to attract visitors during the brutally hot months of June, July and August.
The US election campaign has provided plenty of ammunition for the CCP to make its case that its political system is superior.
Four persons have been invited to the inaugration of Barack Obama in Washington. America. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, business tycoon Mukesh Ambani and Dr Surat Singh, a lawyer at the Supreme court who was Obama's class mate at Harvad Law School.
'I want to show that we are also part of this society and want to participate just as much, whether it is for security or whatever community work there.'
This divisiveness is upsetting social cohesion and can throw the bright young people thronging to Bengaluru with billion dollar ideas in their creative minds off balance, warns Shekhar Gupta.
Are we running a cricket match using football rules, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The announcement comes as a big relief to international students, including those from India.
The chief of America's Federal Communications Commission is not a fan of net neutrality. So what's his vision of communications and digital policy in these times?
The first death in the US was reported on February 29. The country reached 50,000 deaths 54 days later on April 23, and 34 days later, on May 27, crossed 100,000 deaths. It has taken 63 days to add another 50,000 to reach the 150,000 mark, CNN reported.
'From the very start, PM Modi was insistent that visiting foreign leaders should be exposed to an India beyond its capital.' 'Through these experiences, he felt that the full Indian narrative would be much better understood across the world,' explains External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. A riveting excerpt from Bluekraft Digital Foundation's Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery.
'If you don't have children, that's also a problem.' 'There's no right way to live because everybody has an opinion about your personal life, and how you should live.' 'You have to listen to them, unless you can pick a fight with everyone.'
The second and final part of former cabinet secretary Naresh Chandra's interview to Sheela Bhatt.
One Raj Shah has been the top Indian American in the Obama administration; the other Raj Shah is poised to play a key role in the Trump administration.
When rejected for a role in the school play, she took to costume designing by chance.
The AAP leader, who has been recently in the news for supposedly dropping her second name, has been active in reforming the education and health sector.
Acharya emphasised that the time is "really ripe" for land, labour and agricultural reforms in India.
Ten people, including the gunman were killed in in Dayton's Oregon district, while another 20 were shot dead at a crowded Walmart store in the southern border town of El Paso in Texas.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how Indian society and the polity need to be carried along.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right international career
The US became the first country in the world to have more than one million cases of coronavirus. It accounts for nearly one-third of the 3.1 million cases globally.
'A heavy tanker takes time to move, but when it starts rolling, it's difficult to stop it,' Indian Hotels CEO Puneet Chhatwal tells Shyamal Majumdar.
Why are students being forced to go abroad to study?
David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative is being deposed before a Mumbai court on Monday through video conference.
The purchase or construction of houses by large numbers of people can add meaningfully to India's economic growth, points out Neelkanth Mishra.
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale.
American CEOs expected to meet Modi on Sunday include Apple's Tim Cook, Walmart's Doug McMillon, Caterpillar's Jim Umpleby, Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.
'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.'
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions
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