Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Singh's remarks come in the backdrop of a renewed buzz in the Congress circles about Rahul Gandhi's sooner than later elevation as party president.
The manifesto was unveiled by Jayalalithaa at a public rally, in a departure from usual practice of release at party headquarters in Chennai.
Start-ups in the information technology domain are quite common these days. But three young entrepreneurs have ventured into a comparatively lesser known area of food: snacks. Arul Murugan, co-founder, Chloroplast Foods, tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com, how he is bootstrapping his start-up.
'The BJP certainly has an edge as the BJP has gone ahead of the Congress in pleasing the trading community.'
Reddi has so far made 10 investments in the US.
The biggest winner was Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan who ran her ship with self-confidence and aplomb.
The choice clearly is between prompt corrective action and slow but sure destruction, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
In first major growth in 5 years, 2,000 advertisers were added in Jan-Sep 2015.
Telangana's Rythu Bandhu policy is an embryonic UBI, or rather embryonic QUBI (a quasi-universal basic income, pronounced Kyoo-Bee). And it could potentially also be the future of agricultural policy in India, says Arvind Subramanian.
'We need uranium to fuel our reactors. Our scientists and engineers have been handling uranium safely since 1967. They must not feel disheartened by the activities of well motivated local or foreign agencies.'
Villagers attribute Adarsh Nangla's 'fall' to a combination of government apathy and decline of the collective spirit
India's freedom, its rambling but working Constitution, its parliamentary democracy, its lumbering administrative machinery all have many a father, but its greatest claim to fame, especially today, that of being a modern state, is due to but one person: Its first and longest-serving prime minister, Nehru, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Sidhu said that the corridor would promote peace and erase "enmity" between India and Pakistan and create infinite possibilities between them, including the resumption of cricket ties.
Start-up Belong.co uses an unconventional way of hiring that trusts more on data available on social media or tweets than the resume.
'The only positive I see are the youth of India who were earlier just after money. The young now want to do something for society.'
Biju Janata Dal members had staged a walk-out while NDA ally Shiv Sena did not participate in the voting.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Modi govt must bring about reforms to kick-start big-ticket infra projects.
These events would include celebrating the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar in a big way. It was Gandhi's first mass agitation in India, where he had led a protest of peasants against forcible cultivation of indigo.
Cabinet sub-committee to review the situation and take necessary steps.
Agri experts are meeting FinMin ministry officials on Monday to give their inputs on the Budget.
After selling out to Google, the 27-year-old has now turned into an angel investor.
They sleep in public parks, talk to strangers and dare to walk alone into the night. Geentanjali Krishna reports on the non-profit public art initiative that is working for freedom from fear and restrictions for women.
An average team even with a great idea can spell the death of a start-up.
N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem.
Rudrani Chettri wants to help transgender models gain acceptance in mainstream fashion...will she succeed?
LocalOye is a Bengaluru-based marketplace for local household and personal service providers.
Defence Secretary R K Mathur should take to Prime Minister Narendra Modi just five simple measures that would create or catalyse dramatic improvements across the wider defence arena, says Ajai Shukla.
Just one year after taking office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a challenge that could come to haunt him.
Hemant Kanoria tells Niraj Bhatt why understanding the dynamics of the borrower's business is critical for the lender.
Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Opposition parties on Wednesday alleged that selective leak of information on demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee notes to 'friends of BJP' and demanded making public the names of those who had bought gold and foreign exchange of over Rs 1 crore since April.
Cabinet sub-committee to meet to review the situation and take necessary steps. Sanjay Jog reports
Ishan Bakshi studies the Budgets of six states, their expenditure priorities and outlays to understand the trend.
One of the biggest ways in which recent government actions have been seen as investor-unfriendly is New Delhi's decision to unilaterally revisit almost every Bilateral Investment Treaty it has signed with other countries, says Mihir S Sharma.
Fifteen months after taking power, Modi's credibility as an economic manager is on the line.
Saima Hasan, founder and chief executive officer of Roshni Academy that works to empower girls from government schools in New Delhi and surrounding areas to achieve their full potential in college, jobs and life in general, tells P Rajendran what drew her to help poor girls.
The minders of the Modi government's economic policy believe it would take 7 to 8 quarters -- or till around late 2018 -- for the economy to reap the rewards of demonetisation.
Only Rs 3,000 cr has been disbursed. Over 80% of these transfers were for cooking gas subsidy.
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