'If we play our cards right, we may even benefit from the competition between the US and China as seen from increased investment from each of these countries into India.' 'The size of our market gives us an important lever of power which we shall have to play adroitly and intelligently,' points out Ambassador Gautam Bambawale -- who served as India's envoy to China -- in the Professor V M Dandekar Memorial Lecture 2019, delivered on March 8, 2019 in Pune.
The European Commission said this month that EU member states should only ban "sharing economy" services as a last resort.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
Sushil Reddy took a seven day trip to spread awareness on solar power.
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
Practo is an online health service platform which assists patients to meet the best doctors and keeps digital records.
Chairman of Manipal Global Education Services says that the government often forgets that its prime duty is to serve the people and not some sick public sector units.
Mumbai's famous dabbawalas are reinventing themselves to meet the challenge posed by food delivery portals.
Nikesh Arora has an engineering degree in electronics and worked for a brief period at Wipro, selling computers.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
If it helps the business, go ahead and do it, says Anurag Srivastava, co-founder, BigStylist.com.
'In the next 14 years, 100% of US energy will be clean and solar.'
'Access to finance is one of the most crucial needs in the economy.'
He may have failed at his first attempt, but 27-year-old Dinup Kalleril, an engineering dropout, is following his passion relentlessly.
Transcript of Nikhil Pahwa's chat with Rediff readers.
Doctors say robots reduce fatigue and give them greater precision.
No, I haven't made a mistake in the title. The age-old saying, 'Winners don't do different things. They do things differently,' made famous by Shiv Khera in his book You Can Win, is, in my opinion, wrong.
More and more companies are warming up to the idea of reverse mentoring.
More than 100 days as the chief executive of India's second-largest information technology (IT) services company Infosys, Vishal Sikka on Wednesday said he was upset at the sector. He added there was a "better direction" the industry must look to take.
'The Tata group will need for its new leader to show the same foresight and willingness to go against conventional wisdom at times to keep the group's aspirations high and uphold the values of innovation, ethics, corporate responsibility, trust and leadership that are frequently associated with the Tata name.'
'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.'
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
The days of 365-days-a-year, eight-hours-a-day employment are pretty much over, especially as an attractive political promise.
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
'They don't always agree with our governments, their teachers or their parents, but it is the conviction of their ideas, and their determination to share them with the world that, I believe, is one of the greatest sources of hope for our planet.' 'The colonisation of space, understanding the very building blocks of matter and the universe, utilising our understanding of the human genome to conquer disease -- these are the tasks waiting for a fellowship of minds to realise new triumphs in our collective destiny.'
A Mumbai-based start-up is pioneering the cause of refurbishing discarded sports shoes into slippers for the needy and less privileged.
'Competition makes us better. I lose a little bit of sleep because I have competition.'
Businessman P C Mustafa wants Indian Americans to return home, Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza outlines how Indian tech companies could grow, Gaurav Dalmia has some investment recommendations while Subramanian Swamy warns that India is flirting with a debt trap.
'When I was young, I used to look around the village we lived in.' 'There was a lack of resources -- no proper health centres and schools.' 'I felt that becoming an IAS officer would help solve those issues.'
Karthik Balakrishnan, an engineering student from Bangalore spearheaded the campaign that will inspire and educate millions from across the country.
Many app makers have stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device.
'We had a great product for the global market and we could sell it globally resulting in this amazing growth.' 'When customers come online and buy a product, they don't look at whether it is created in India or somewhere else.'
Abhishek Singhania left a career at PwC to work in a food security project as a research fellow.
Despite having the third-largest internet user base in the world, India does not feature in the top ten e-commerce markets
An interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy,Senior vice-president, ads and commerce, Google.
Admittedly, EVMs too have a UID number and any convergence of data can make the secret ballot system a party of history, warns Dr Gopal Krishna in the 5th part of his series against Aadhaar.
Secretary Tillerson met with Foreign Secretary Jaishankar on Friday to discuss the US-India relationship and the agenda for Prime Minister Modi's meetings at the White House on June 26, a State Department spokesman said told PTI.
'There was a time when I went without salary for about six months,' says Amod Malviya, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and currently CTO, Flipkart.
They gave voices to sexual assault & harassment survivors across the world.
