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The Ugly Indian, a Bangalore-based group that began operating around 2010, took a deliberately provocative approach to the chronic problem of public space degradation in Indian cities: instead of petitioning authorities,...
Babar Ali is an ( student and teacher from ( in ( He was called the “youngest headmaster in the world” by BBC in October 2009, at the age of sixteen. Babar Ali is still a student himself, enrolled at the government-run R...
The tradition of short video content addressing women's empowerment — produced by NGOs, government campaigns, corporations, and individuals — had become substantial by the early 2010s, as YouTube's reach made video an ac...
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes magazine's list of the top 100 richest tycoons in India for the eighth consecutive year with a net worth of $23.6 billion, up $2.6 billion from last year....
Indian Government to open five new IITs and few more IIMs The next academic session ( in full function. The IITs will come us in Chattisgarh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Jammu. From the ( "We have already written to...
They offered her a lift and she accepted. Later, they took her to an isolated spot and raped her for one hour. Medical reports have confirmed that she was raped and the (lawless) law of the land is on the look out for th...
Phaneesh Murthy, CEO of iGATE enterprises fired. He is accused of sexually harassing an employee. He, of course is denying the charges. He was asked to resign from Infosys in 2002 for sexual harassment charges against hi...
Restaurants and washrooms may have provided the ambience for some brilliant ideas, but for telecom operator Uninor, the flicker of inspiration came when a top executive was on his way home in an autorickshaw. Uninor Maha...
Video footage of a man being ignored as he begged for help following a road accident that killed his wife and child has led to accusations of "shameful" public apathy in India. Police said Kanhaiya Lal's appeals were ign...
In a first, the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow on Friday reduced the fees for its post-graduate programme in management for the academic term 2013-2015. The IIM's director Devi Singh said the fees were being slas...
Cops probing the case of a 16-year-old girl in Ulhasnagar, who claimed her parents forced her to have sex with a man to whom they owed Rs 50,000, booked her parents and the man for rape on Saturday. While the victim's fa...
Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based autorickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination. Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her pare...
As recently as 2006, when I first visited India and China, the economic race was on, with heavy bets being placed on which one would win the developing world sweepstakes. Many Westerners fervently hoped that a democratic...
David Coleman Headley was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison Thursday primarily for his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people, including six Americans. Mr. Headley, a Pa...
The statistic was stark and it circulated widely in Indian and international media: a rape was reported in India every 22 minutes, according to National Crime Records Bureau data. The figure, troubling enough in itself,...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Henna Bakshi was awarded the Geeta Chopra award, the nation's highest award for bravery shown by girls when she was 12 year old . A decade ago, she was in news for getting the highest bravery award, today again she is in...
The Indian government's decision in September 2012 to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail — permitting international retailers like Walmart and Carrefour to establish majority-owned operations in India...
Pratish Datta's achievement in topping the IIT Joint Entrance Examination among visually impaired candidates was a story that resonated far beyond the competitive examination ecosystem for what it revealed: that the barr...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
It was a rare moment to see the Chairman of such a big company, delve into personal memories of an era gone by, and that too on a public platform. I am talking about Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki's nostalgic m...
So many Indians apply to study at London Metropolitan that a few years ago the university opened recruitment offices in Delhi and Chennai. But on Thursday both branches had been shut down. In the Delhi towerblock where t...
Kehar Singh Gill went to El Paso to look for a bride. A Mexican woman who worked in the cotton fields that he farmed in California's Imperial Valley had told him that she had eligible nieces there. Gill got the address w...
Maruti Seeking Vaastu Expert Advice Maruti Suzuki appears to have suddenly realized that the root cause of all its problems at its Manesar plant is Vaastu defects. How else can one understand the fact that Maruti Suzuki...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The northeastern Indian state of Assam descended into ethnic violence as clashes between indigenous Bodo tribal communities and Bengali Muslim settlers — many of them alleged illegal immigrants from Bangladesh — killed d...
Pranab Mukherjee will be sworn in as the country's 13th President on Wednesday at a special ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament. Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia will administer the oath to Mukherjee at 11.30 am...
The software industry in India's technology capital, which has been a beneficiary of benign government neglect, is concerned that the malevolent gaze of arcane rules and regulations may be falling upon it. Employers in B...
When Aamir Khan launched Satyamev Jayate on Doordarshan and Star Plus in May 2012, the expectations were enormous — and the early episodes delivered. The show's debut episode on female foeticide, featuring real families...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The story of contemporary India is the story of coming to terms with the legacy of two families: the Gandhis and the Ambanis. Taken literally, this statement is, of course, absurd. But it is often a summary way of thinki...
India's corruption problem is not a peripheral dysfunction of an otherwise functional system. It is structural—woven into the incentive architecture of how political parties fund themselves, how government contracts are...
In a state with Punjab's complicated history of violence — the insurgency years of the 1980s and early 1990s, the drug crisis that has swept through subsequent decades, the persistent tensions and crime that accompany po...
Sachin Tendulkar to take oath as Rajya Sabha member today Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will on Monday take oath as Rajya Sabha member in the chambers of RS Chairperson Hamid Ansari. Sachin was nominated to the Upper H...
In the wake of the Andhra Pradesh High Court order striking down the 4.5 per cent sub-quota to minorities within OBC reservation, IITs have decided to abide by the ruling, "ignoring" the quota provision till further lega...
The India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway, a 1,360-kilometer road project connecting Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar, has been under construction and repeated revision since its formal agreement i...
In Anand district in Gujarat, a village school made national news for what was, in the context of rural Indian education, a remarkable amenity: air-conditioned classrooms. In a country where many rural schools lack funct...
Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilla as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq f...
For a nation with over a billion people and a railway network that carries more than 20 million passengers every day, the announcement that Indian Railways was exploring free internet service for passengers represented s...
In a case that exposed the intersection of child marriage, bureaucratic rigidity, and institutional indifference to victims, a young woman in India was denied entry into the civil services not because of her own failings...
India's successful test launch of the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012, marked a significant moment in the country's strategic defense posture. The missile, developed by the Defence Research and Development Org...
Fraudulent marriage arrangements in which siblings or other relatives pair up with foreign nationals willing to participate in exchange for payment—creating immigration paperwork supporting a spousal visa application wit...
Moves toward international recognition of Indian engineering degrees — the BTech qualification awarded by Indian universities and institutions — represented a significant development for Indian graduates seeking employme...
India's Supreme Court rejection of Novartis's patent application for Gleevec—a leukemia drug that costs tens of thousands of dollars annually in Western markets—represented the most significant assertion of a developing...
Plans to construct the world's largest Hindu temple in Bihar, modeled on the magnificent Angkor Wat complex of Cambodia, were announced by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and associated organizations, sparking both enthusiasm...
Prem Ganapathy arrived in Mumbai from Tamil Nadu in 1992 with almost nothing. The story of how he built Dosa Plaza — a chain with dozens of outlets across India and abroad, generating revenues in the tens of crores — is...
Manoj Bhargava, the reclusive founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy, occupies one of the more unusual positions in American business: he is almost certainly one of the wealthiest people in the United States, worth an estimate...
EXCERPTS FROM MS FISHER'S LETTER 'Ms. Fisher was scared. She was a nervous wreck but attempted to appear relaxed. She sat down on one of two love seats in the sitting room. She was worried when you came over and sat dire...
The claim that deficits don't matter is associated most famously with Dick Cheney's remark to then-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill that "Reagan proved deficits don't matter" — a statement that outraged fiscal conservativ...
The European Commission fined eight consumer goods companies a combined €315.2 million in 2011 for operating a price-fixing cartel in the laundry detergent market, exposing years of clandestine coordination between compa...
The remarkable success of Indian-origin executives at the helms of global companies — from Microsoft to Google to IBM to Pepsi — has generated considerable analysis about what, if anything, distinguishes their leadership...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
In a big-ticket policy decision, the cabinet on Thursday opened the high-growth retail sector to foreign chains. That means people can soon shop at international department stores such as Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco in...
Recently I met with Mrs ( when she was launching the PFA (People for Animals) mugs. As part of the launch, she talked for an hour and it was quite impressive....
The world's most expensive home is lying unused and abandoned because its billionaire owners believe moving in will bring them bad luck. The 27-storey, billion-dollar tower in Mumbai, called Antilia, is said to have fall...
When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the asso...
Friend lose a job? Hallmark wants to help With unemployment numbers staying high, there's a new way to reach out to someone who may have lost their job. In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everythin...
The kingpins of the city's underworld have either fled, been killed in encounters or called it aday. But GenX is stepping out of their parents' feared shadows in search of a new identity in Mumbai as bankers, doctors, en...
These) various pulls and pressures mean that when it comes to policy, the urgent wins over the important, tactic triumphs over strategy, and patronage over public good." -Nandan Nilekani in his 2008 book( Nilekani had a...
Economic projections published in the early 2010s generated significant debate when they suggested that China's economy could reach twice the size of the United States' by 2030 — a forecast that seemed extraordinary at t...
India's most consequential export may not be software, pharmaceuticals, or textiles. It may be CEOs. The Banga brothers are the most visible current example of a phenomenon that has been quietly reshaping global corporat...
If the July 2008 cash-for-vote scam was sensational, the arrest of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in the case was even more dramatic. When special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal began the hearing at 10am in a jam...
Vinod Rai has a good first serve. He takes full advantage of his over six-foot frame to smash the ball across the court. The opponent, a colleague of his, has to receive the ball at an uncomfortable height. It is not com...
At 7 feet 4 inches, Sim Bhullar is impossible to miss in any setting, but his height is the least remarkable thing about him. What makes Bhullar significant in the history of basketball is what he represents: the first p...
Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. is desperate to find new recruits who can answer questions by phone and email. It wants to hire 3,000 people this year. Yet in this country of 1.2 billion people, that is begin...
Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata and Niira Radia were on Monday quizzed in connection with 2G spectrum scam by Parliament's PAC whose head MM Joshi said the panel found the industrialist candid and the corporate lobbyist "e...
The turn of a decade seems to have a queer effect on Dr. Manmohan Singh. It unleashes a...
Good folks at Linkedin did some analysis and have given us a list of words to avoid. Interestingly the Indian habit of calling people Dynamic has crossed over to internet as well. Americans on the other hand have the emp...
Gentlemen don't prefer bonds. When it comes to most IITians, agreements that tie them down to an organization are a definite no. With the good times rolling back, engineering grads from tech schools want an active lifeli...
In a country where a month's salary for many workers barely touches ten thousand rupees, the news that a single chemist shop in Mumbai was paying rent of ₹42 lakh per month — roughly $90,000 at 2010 exchange rates — was...
Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group, on Monday moved the Supreme Court claiming that his right to privacy was violated due to the leakage of his alleged discussions with corporate lobbyist Ms Niira Radia and others. Mr...
The period between 2008 and 2012 produced a density of major corruption revelations in India that overwhelmed the public's ability to track them simultaneously. The 2G spectrum scandal, the Commonwealth Games contracting...
Pune is a hotbed of cultural activity and it is a perfect destination for a fashion city. So we decided to bring season two of Pune Fashion Week (PFW)," Badal Saboo, its managing director, told IANS. Very soon the second...
Nepal's decision to import high-yielding dairy cattle breeds from India — specifically the Haryana and Sahiwal breeds, known for their milk production and heat tolerance — reflected both the economic ambitions of Nepal's...
To address the enduring and intertwined problems of hunger, child malnutrition and illiteracy, India launched the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world, back in the 1960s. Today the program f...
The list of Indian American executives at the top of the Fortune 500 compensation tables has grown long enough that it no longer carries the element of surprise that it once did. Sundar Pichai at Alphabet, Satya Nadella...
When the Chinese conglomerate made its offer for the mid-sized British engineering firm, the British employees gathered in the canteen to hear a reassuring presentation from the new owners' representatives and came away...
Facial recognition technology was advancing faster than the legal and regulatory frameworks designed to govern it—and in 2012, a wave of startups and established tech companies were competing to build the most accurate c...
