'Over the next 10 years we expect more than 100,000 new start ups to come up and create more than $500 billion in value and 3.5 million to be employed in these start ups.' 'And these are the start ups that will be solving India's problems.'
John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco, can talk about new age technology, artificial intelligence and crickets - insects being used as super food - all in the same breath.
The four south Indian languages grew by 7% while regional languages within the Hindi speaking markets (such as Bhojpuri, Bangla, Marathi, etc) grew by 26%.
Armed with deep customer knowledge, low operational overheads, new funding opportunities and help from online marketplaces, the local brand is turning David to every Goliath that steps into its neighbourhood, says T E Narasimhan.
The watch has been designed by multiple Tata Group companies
Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee reveal how they built the company from scratch.
Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions. Siva Sankar pays tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam, the legendary singer who passed into the ages on Friday.
Being employee light is the latest fad.
'The leadership values I learnt while playing cricket in India helped me compete vigorously in the face of uncertainty -- putting the team first and bringing out the best in everybody.'
Macro environment, tech shift main challenges now: N Chandrasekaran
The upcoming general elections will be the focus and the economy and market performance will pivot around that event. The general consensus is that the India stock market should be up around 10 per cent by the end of the year.
A number of smaller players are said to be gasping for breath.
Autonomous underwater vehicle Bluefin 21, a US Navy probe equipped with side-scan sonar, has focused the search on an area in the southern Indian Ocean where four acoustic signals were detected that led authorities to believe that the plane's black box may be located there.
A mini-submarine deployed to locate the missing Malaysian plane's wreckage on the floor of the Indian Ocean has completed a full 16-hour mission mission at its third attempt, authorities said.
Venture capital investments in India's start-ups nearly halved to $1.5 billion in fourth-quarter 2015
Manwani said HUL was using technology across the value chain from manufacturing to distribution, marketing and advertising in its endeavour to be future-ready.
The total staff strength - once 1,100 - is now under 200.
Projecting the mining operations as part of China's move to take over Arunachal Pradesh, the report said 'people familiar with the project say the mines are part of an ambitious plan by Beijing to reclaim South Tibet'.
'The information is used only to fight the COVID-19 virus and the privacy terms explicitly state that information will be used only for this purpose.'
Chinese observers believe the Sino-US relationship will be impacted by issues in North Korea, Japan, India, Ukraine and Iran and that conflicts with these 'third parties' will without exception ultimately become conflicts between China and the US, points out former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
Good, bad & ugly style looks of the week.
Prospects are grim for many, as humans and organisations aren't keeping up with the pace of technology. Shyamal Majumdar ponders the future of employment.
The wedding season is here and people are getting married by the dozen. People are spending bucketloads of money to ensure in order to create their dream weddings. But there are some adventurous souls who are giving traditions and rituals a miss and saying 'I Do' with a twist. Here are some of the craziest and most bizarre weddings. Go ahead, take inspiration and plan one weird, out of this world marriage.
The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market.
Prime Minister Modi will meet President Obama at the White House on September 29 and 30, US officials said.
Setting up a system is not very complicated and costs can be Rs 2-3 lakh for a 100-apartment society
'As they grow bigger, the trail of their pioneering success often leaves behind a causticity marked by deficient human resource practices, negligible focus on corporate governance and rife sexism.'
As and when the GST comes in, Budget projections will have to be unbundled and revised. In fact, the pragmatic decision would be to present another Budget! This makes the passage of the Finance Bill with its multiple unrelated amendments seem even more dubious, says Devangshu Datta.
A serial entrepreneur and author talks about the mistake he made as a first time entrepreneur and the lessons he learned from it.
Snapdeal delivers to the Dharavi centre, where buyers pick up their orders.
At a time of massive job losses that is what the much-vaunted Indian IT sector needs. Ritwik Sharma reports.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
'India cannot function the Chinese way and the sooner people realise that, the better it will be.'
Deep down, Katragadda is still that boy who makes as well as sells soap
The local markets are expected to react to global triggers until the government announces the Union Budget.
Stocks of companies having operations and exports to Europe were the top losers.
'I have had ups and downs and whenever I was low I always remember my mom's words.'
It is important to note that slowdown in activity is really confined to a selected few regions within China.
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