Gaurav Mehta, one of 100 'Young Global Leaders', is tapping entrepreneurs inside rural Indians.
On September 4, between 2 and 3 pm, Naveenan Ramachandran and Rajesh Balasubramanian, experts, 2IIM, Mumbai and Chennai will take questions on how to prepare for the Common Admission Test and secure admission in one of the top business schools in the country.
More than 25,000 classrooms of between 10,000 to 15,000 schools were destroyed by the deadly earthquake.
'This is the beginning of a big campaign which may last a hundred years of trying to understand the human body in detail.'
In his approach to national problems and issues Vivekananda was perhaps the first one to call for a national struggle against the challenges of material existence. While recognising the need for re-discovering and rekindling the spiritual aim of existence, the Swami did not neglect to recognise the demands of the other existence as well, says Dr Anirban Ganguly.
When these villagers had no work, an NGO stepped in and transformed their lives, says Geetanjali Krishna.
Cricket World Cup will be clean, says anti-corruption chief.
Shuvajit was confident of making a huge difference in the lives of people in rural India.
The best of India's brains are instead busy solving the world's problems (I deliberately exaggerate a bit to drive home the point), as our policies incentivise them to do so.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right course and college.
The government's negligence towards this 'treasure house of knowledge' can be seen from the fact that monkeys roam about freely in the reading rooms, disturbing the calm of the library, as well as putting the lives of the readers in danger, writes Sajad Ahmad Dar.
Shivakumar, arrested on September 3 by the ED, was produced before the court on the expiry of his 9-day custodial interrogation by the agency.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Knowledge of technical skills, creativity, social and emotional intelligence is what recruiters are looking for.
'I am grateful to God that I am alive and he has made me differently-abled for a greater cause,' says Wing Commander Shantanu.
Here's a map of the endangered languages from around the world.
NDA government has shunned populism.
'... for two reasons: the poor quality of education, and the low rate of female participation in the labour force.' 'Unless something is done quickly to remedy these problems, India will just have a large population of low-skill, low-wage, males trying and failing to feed their families adequately.'
Around six lakh people have been housed in over 2000 relief camps in the two states.
Nupur was able to successfully build a prototype of a biomass briquette, an alternative fuel from waste materials.
The flood-ravaged Srinagar city has been divided into three zones to expedite the cleaning up and sanitation operations, an official spokesman said on Tuesday.
Corruption in the scheme may have nothing to do with fake children being shown to siphon out money, says Somasekhar Sundaresan.
The measures to reduce the current account deficit should have focused far more on narrowing the trade imbalance, principally through export facilitation and linked FDI, says Nitin Desai.
This 24-yr old is empowering rural Bihar and how!
Talk to them. Address their fears and engage them in interesting activities at home.
Armed with pricey degrees from colleges overseas, young Indians are heading back home in search for greener pastures.
Another minister -- Vinod Tawde -- has been accused of corruption in awarding contracts.
Several exemptions have been given to reduce the cost of raw materials.
March 29 is the last date to submit your application.
'The Congress party hated him because he had not gone to jail, he was not lathi charged, he had not gone on hunger strike.' 'They felt he had lived in London all his life and then he came to India and became an MP and a minister.'
The External Affairs Ministry on Thursday discarded the article titled 'India's embarrassing North Korean connection' by Nilanjana Bhowmick in Al Jazeera, a Doha-based broadcaster, saying the insinuation regarding New Delhi's assistance to North Korea in United Nations proscribed activities is 'baseless and without any merit.'
Director Jayant Gilatar's sloppy 'tribute' never ever develops into anything noteworthy, writes Sukanya Verma
Take a look at the skills that matter and how you can acquire them.
'I do not believe that they have become terrorists and have gone to Syria to fight.' 'I feel they have only become very orthodox Muslims.'
'When Arnab Goswami announced on TV, it's over, it's done, dad patted me with love and said congrats.' 'I broke down' Nakshatra Bagwe, a 'proud gay' film-maker and activist from Mumbai, tells Rediff.com's Divya Nair.
Chandrakant Sompura has either planned, designed, built or renovated over a hundred temples in India and abroad.
Subramanian was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Development in the US before joining the ministry.
If you have shortlisted the colleges of your choice, it is a good idea to explore the campus before joining.
The Indian Institute of Science topped the HRD ministry's 2017 national rankings. In 2016, the IISc was ranked among the world's top 15 universities in the Times Higher Education University Rankings. In his book The Creation of Wealth: The Tatas from the 19th to the 21st Century, R M Lala recounted how Jamsetji Tata's grand vision and immense personal contribution laid the edifice of arguably India's finest educational institution.
The Dalai Lama is a huge charmer, knowing how to say things that will please an audience in his gentle avuncular manner.
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