Signs of a strong pickup in hiring by companies are adding to the rosier outlook for Indian households.
Away from the cricket field, it was a year in which Sania Mirza was unarguably the biggest success story with her staggering 10 titles on the Tour -- two of them Grand Slams.
As the year 2016 draws to a close, vote for the best Indian sportsperson of the year.
Aseem Chhabra picks his favourite movies from the Telluride Film Festival.
From Boyhood to The Grand Budapest Hotel, we've seen some brilliant cinema this year.
In our special series revisiting great Hindi film classics, we look back at Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and Babita's 1971 film, Kal Aaj Aur Kal.
Sylvia Dyer's life began nearly 90 years ago in a forgotten, untamed land. She spent her childhood on a plantation on the Bihar-Nepal border in pre-Independent India, lived through the '65 war as the wife of a decorated army officer and saw an era grow and fade in front of her eyes.