Campus placements are already in full-swing and hiring plans of many companies, whose expansion plans were stuck due to policy paralysis, are now getting green signals.
Education remains one of the key focuses of the new government.
We look back at some of the most inspirational stories featured on Rediff Get Ahead in 2014.
'If they are not ready for a 10 to 20 year journey, they should not become entrepreneurs.'
'A few people have begun to dictate what the country should wear, think, see, go about its lives. That is the real Indian bak****.'
Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees.
With stock prices at elevated levels, investors must cut valuation risks in their portfolio
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel glances at the life and political career of Alexey Navalny who has been banned from challenging Vladimir Putin in Russia's presidential election.
The Kabuliwalas of Kolkata, traditional moneylenders, have seen their numbers shrink.
His challenge now may be coping with Alibaba's undoubted status as a whale in the world of e-commerce.
2014 Asian Games bronze medalist and national record holder Sudha Singh wants to make amends for a disappointing outing at the London Olympics.
'Our Indian culture system is very family oriented.' 'We value and respect the decisions of our parents to a great extent.' 'That can be a pro or con.' 'It's up to the parents to gauge how much motivation, pressure or space a child needs.' 'Every child is different.' 'We are all unique and that is what I intend to drive home to parents.'
Shubham Kumar Gautam, son of a farmer and a Super 30 student, recounts how, in a journey laced with perseverance, grit and determination, he achieved what seemed impossible.
Four fishermen who traveled to the Middle East, dreaming of earning more money, instead ended in an Iranian jail.
What work in Jaipur's favour are lower costs, a good talent pool, better quality of life, and proximity to the Delhi National Capital Region
Calling people of the northeastern region by "derogatory" names will soon become a non-bailable offence and land you in jail for up to five years.
Kashmiris hope that India and Pakistan can find a lasting solution to what many call the Kashmir 'problem'.
'Our children score very high marks, but do not get admission in good colleges. They get top rank, but they do not get jobs because they belong to the so-called forward caste.' 'What can we do when a boy or girl from the community with first rank is considered only at the 6th or 7th position for a government job just because those with reservation get precedence over us?'
'I wish I could tell you that what you had to experience is limited to a few people and a few places in my beautiful country; it is not.' A Mango Indian on the stark ugliness that coexists with immense beauty in India
'As Rai spoke, in an unbelievably dead pan, almost off-the-cuff tone, about helping plan the murder of two youngsters, drugging them with vodka and whiskey spiked with dava (medicine), smothering one, dragging a body in rigor mortis out of a car, burning a corpse, destroying evidence, and so on, it felt like he was discussing nothing more surprising than the intricacies of the weather.'
Dress well. Be polite and helpful. Look around for opportunities where you can put your skills to use.
'Amitabh Bachchan told me, "I don't appreciate other people doing my voice".'
'I ask for bail in the name of justice.' 'Give me a chance to stay alive and see the trial till its end.'
The man who led this journey is 50-year-old Kalanithi Maran, chairman and managing director of the Sun Group.
Some time before December 31, 2017, Bengaluru based Team Indus aims to land a vehicle on the moon.
Such a move, Obama argued would attract larger foreign direct investment to the US.
There is a difference between being confident and being arrogant, says Virender Kapoor.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first trip to New York as leader of the world's most populous democracy, will draw perhaps the largest crowd ever by a foreign leader on US soil when he takes the stage on Sunday in Madison Square Garden before a crowd forecast to total more than 18,000 people.
Three businessmen disclose their success mantras: One belongs to an old Marwari family, another is a second generation industrialist whose father scripted an amazing rags-to-riches story and the third was a professional till one day he succumbed to the charms of entrepreneurship.
There is also an interesting name OLX gave the idle stuff lying in our homes: brown money. Over lunch, OLX CEO Amarjit Singh Batra tells Uttran Das Gupta how the company is weaning Indians away from their "irrational emotional attachment to things."
After selling Polaris to Virtusa, Arun Jain will focus on Intellect Design, play the role of mentor and angel investor, and pursue his interests in healthcare and education.
Once you enter IIT Kanpur, you know you have arrived at a place which is at par with the best educational institutes worldwide. If not better.
Swiggy, a Bengaluru-based food ordering and delivery start-up, says it aims to revolutionise this segment.
It would seem that Indrani's application was not something prepared or maybe even sanctioned by her lawyers and was a courtroom enterprise she had embarked on by herself, perhaps not realising it distracted from the main business of the trial and didn't help her cause.
The White House on Wednesday released its annual collection of some of the most interesting photographs of President Barack Obama and his family.
National award winner Chaitanya Tamhane tells us the story behind his film, Court.
Life in Mumbai was on Wednesday slowly coming back on tracks as rains subsided and hundreds of stranded commuters headed home with the partial resumption of suburban train services.
In order to have a successful career you have to ask yourself why you are doing what you are doing, says Kumud Srinivasan, Intel India's President.
What explains Vijay Shekhar Sharma's optimism when other players have started to tread cautiously is Paytm's huge customer base: It has 120 million users and counting, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Hyderabad-based Anshul Sinha is making hard hitting films on important social issues, but there are no takers.
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