'We can go with smaller ensembles -- even 15 or 20 creations from a designer.' 'We are keeping the focus squarely on quality over quantity.' 'India Couture Week is, after all, about the best of the best,' FDCI Chairman Sunil Sethi tells Veenu Sandhu

'What motivated us was that a lot of people, especially youngsters, had a negative image about India.'

Anurag Tiwari, who belongs to Sarasan village in Lakhimpur district, said he has got selected to Cornell University where he would be pursuing higher studies in Economics.

'Everybody says 5G and communication is important.' 'Everybody says automation, robotics, human computing interfaces -- people and machines working together -- is the future.' 'Everybody agrees that cybersecurity is something that is here to stay.' 'Everybody agrees that synthetic biology is important.' 'Instead of outlining thinking about industries for tomorrow and the future, let the evolutionary pathway be built in a way that it promotes robust, creative, thinking.'

'One good thing that has come out of all this is that it shown people that online ordering is the way forward.'

An internship at EY is a dream come true for finance graduates, MBA, CA, and commerce students, says Sarvesh Agrawal.

Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.

United States President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump will be visiting India -- Ahmedabad and Delhi -- on February 24 and 25 on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Let's assess earlier American presidential visits to India.

At Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas's nuptials, the Adil Manuel Collective played funk, jazz and R&B for longer than planned that evening at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur. One of the couple's friends in the audience yelled: 'Are you guys even from India?' Adil Manuel offered to show her their passports.

Hari Krishnan Nair from Chennai shares his inspiring story.

Rediff reader Kiran Mestry, 49 from Mumbai tells us how her first salary changed her life.

Mumbai-based artiste Dev Mehta wants to use modern art to inspire people to think and see things differently. This is his story.

'Amit Shah and Modi have a disciple and guru relationship. But Modi and Jaitley's relationship was based on friendship. That's the difference.'

In the Modi government, he was the mentor -- he groomed half a dozen of those who became ministers. Some remembered, others did not -- Jaitley seemed to care little. Aditi Phadnis reports.

Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.

Miss Teen World 2019 Sushmita Singh shares her inspiring journey to the top.

UPSC's female topper, All India Rank 5 Srushti Jayant Deshmukh, tells us how she cracked the tough exam.

'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.

Model Akshara Balakrishna, 21, tells us what it is like to be a dark skinned model in India.

A breakthrough will come from what we teach and how, says Ajit Balakrishnan.

Every day at 9 am, five 20-somethings who live in a 4-bedroom apartment in Bengaluru have a session with their physical trainer. After a workout, they spend the next 8 to 10 hours in their spacious living room, headphones in place and computer screens in front of them. Their salaried job: To play video games for the rest of the day.

Nishtha Dudeja from Haryana won the title at the 18th edition of Miss and Mister Deaf World.

A civil services aspirant from Mumbai, Nehal Chudasama hopes to bring home the title of Miss Universe.

Connecting with people is the first step to creating greater awareness for the brand and that in turn, believes ISRO chief K Sivan, will translate into the institution becoming a place that people want to work in.

Kamat was a Member of Parliament for the Mumbai North West constituency in 2009 and the Mumbai North East constituency in 1984, 1991, 1998 and 2004.

The problem, say experts, is not so much the use of plastic as the lack of effort to recycle and reuse it.

'If the RSS should be saluted for choosing such a scholarly statesman to address its highly trained cadre, one must also praise Pranab Da's sagacity for having gracefully accepting the invitation, thus disapproving any ideological apartheid,' says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.

'In the end, investing is about people.' 'If you get the right people, they make things happen,' Mengistu Alemayehu tells Shyamal Majumdar.

A 22 year old's social enterprise serves as a bridge between transgenders and companies that want to hire them

With over 45 healthcare facilities and over 300 vibrant diagnostic centres, Fortis is India's second-largest hospital chain -- next only to Apollo, which has 64 hospitals with 10,000 beds. Therefore, any international or domestic hospital chain that buys Fortis will simply catapult to the numero uno position.

10 achievers who made the cut in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.

'30 to 40% of the industry needs to be reskilled as existing jobs will go to automation.' 'Reskilling is required as some existing jobs will not be required in the future.'

The rising popularity of Heritage Walks is uncovering forgotten historic sites all over India.

'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'

'The rule for millennials is: You can have a career for life.' 'You have to constantly adapt to the needs of the industry to stay relevant.' 'The jobs will be the same, but the skill sets required will be different.' 'Technology will dominate the nature of jobs available in the future.'

Turbocharged with technology is becoming the Holy Grail of retail.

Juster played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.

Deepak Gupta grows chemical-free food and wants farmers to go back to the practices they once knew but have forgotten, says Aditi Phadnis.