Besides a great idea, it takes pluck, and some luck, to get going.
Full transcript of President Obama's speech at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
In a four part series beginning today Pushpinder Bhatia talks about various aspects of studying in Denmark.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
We are looking at both soft skills and technology skills; skills that will allow them to adapt, and become change agents. They also have to keep abreast of the latest technology developments
A unique initiative launched by IIT Bombay now makes IIT lectures available at the click of a mouse -- and for free!
In order to have a successful career you have to ask yourself why you are doing what you are doing, says Kumud Srinivasan, Intel India's President.
Over Dosas in Mumbai, Oscar winner Megan Mylan tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel why she chose India and girls empowerment as the subject of her new documentary.
South Asians who are registered to vote could empower the entire community by flocking to polling stations in all upcoming elections, and show the importance of the South Asian ballot.
The 39-year-old, the fifth child of an illiterate labourer couple and only the second of their eight to be educated, now helms various ventures that bring in a turnover of between Rs 75 crore and Rs 90 crore.
Sri Srinivasan, the first Indian-origin federal judge in the United States, is India Abroad Person of the Year 2013
'Modi is a master of convergence. By his ability to converge and add new features to a non-star idea, he is able to sell it. Like how he has turned Kutch into a tourist destination by selling the salt desert of the Rann as a flat snow desert of the night and roping in Amitabh Bachchan to sell it. In one stroke this has ensured economic returns to the people and on the other hand it has taken care of the national security angle in the sense that the border population in the Rann, which is almost entirely Muslim, is feeling better as now they are much more connected with the mainstream.' Ahead of the launch of his book on the much-debated Modi model of governance, journalist Uday Mahurkar speaks to Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
Here is the full transcript of Congress vice president and Lok Sabha poll campaign chief Rahul Gandhi's first formal TV interview with Times Now Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami.
Amit Gupta's blogging efforts help the layman put the fun back in photography, reports P Rajendran.
With all of Dr Kalam's American interlocutors, the idea that a scientist could reach such a high public office in a democracy evoked awe and admiration.
Before he came to the US, he also held senior positions internationally for Levi-Strauss & Co, Unilever and the Colgate-Palmolive Company.
Two key Indian American physicians from the Obama administration, who worked on implementing healthcare reforms, are stepping down from their posts to return to clinical practice. Dr Sachin H Jain, 30, and Amol S Navathe, 32, worked for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The Dalai Lama is right to reach out to ordinary Chinese; in the long run, it could only pay rich dividends, but the results won't probably be seen in the immediate future, says Claude Arpi.
Sam Pitroda, who holds close to 100 worldwide patents and has published and lectured widely in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia, answered our readers' questions on the Union Budget on February 28.
As India faces increasing dissonance and even hostility from its neighbours, there is increasing recognition that only government efforts are far from adequate. Assertive people-to-people contacts are essential to supplement and even supplant government efforts to normalise some inter-state relations, says Nilova Roy Chaudhury.
Madrasas are the bastions of faith. But they should not fortify themselves in their own world, cut off from the world around them. In order to carry out the work of inter-faith dialogue, it is imperative for the students, graduates, teachers and managers of madrasas to actively engage and interact with others, including students of 'modern' schools and colleges
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on May 16, Siddhartha Dubey and Sharon Moshavi (details below) discussed how they make a career in digital journalism.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in opening the first-ever US-India Higher Education Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, -- which she co-chaired with Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal -- declared that while collaboration in this sphere is a driving force in the strategic dialogue between Washington and New Delhi, whether it will ultimately succeed or not depends on those outside government -- academia, researchers, and business
In an online chat on April 19, Ashish N of EducationAisle gave tips to Get Ahead readers on how they can get a high score in GMAT. Here's the unedited chat transcript.
United States President Barack Obama, during his historic address to the Parliament on Monday evening, made some vital comments about the changing relationship between the two largest democracies of the world: India and US. Rediff.com takes a look at some of those:
The transcript of the speech President Barack Obama delivered in Parliament on Monday evening
AT 26, he set up his own matrimony portal and managed it in his spare time from his living room at home. Murugavel Janakiraman, founder CEO of BharatMatrimony.com, shares how he went about making teh website one of the leading portals in its field.
Teenager Niti Dua chats with fans about her web diary launched by Ekta Kapoor.
On May 11 we launched our campaign against caste in census 2011 and responses from readers have been pouring in. While some merely clicked the 'I am against the caste census' button, others were more vocal. We present what our readers had to say.
Here is the entire text of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's Budget Speech:
'I cannot think of being a writer in any other city in India!' says poet Sampurna Chattarji.
'Never pretend to know the answer to something you have no clue about!' says Rhodes Scholar Swati Mylavarapu.
The founder of Breakthrough, a human rights organisation that fights violence against women, Mallika Dutt, 47, is based in the USA and has dedicated all of her adult life to fighting for causes she believes in.
Industrial policy isn't dead. It's thriving in the statesand may be the start of a U.S. comeback strategy
Get Ahead readers share their tips on how not to be attacked in Australia.
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