The text of President A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the nation on the eve of the 58th Independence Day

The way to meet workers' concerns about jobs going overseas is to prepare workers to acquire new skills for new jobs, open up markets abroad and make sure that America is the best place in the world to do business

Skilled youngsters must not rust away their knowledge and spend their energies in an industry, like BPO, that holds no promise of a future, says Ranjan Nambiar.

The finance minister presented the Interim Budget for 2004-05 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

'In New York, fashion is in a dreadful state. The emphasis is on commerce,' designer Richard Singh tells Shakti Bhatt.

India on Wednesday said that developed and developing countries should now 'close their differences' and move forward after the Cancun debacle but felt more 'transparency' in decision-making process was needed at the WTO to help towards this end.

Educated and intelligent, they are motivated by a desire for 'revenge.' A four-part series.