Spruce up your CV and seek professional advise, says Prof RSS Mani of ITM Group of Institutions.

Vinay Kumar tells you how to optimise your preparation.

Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra tells you how to pick the right international university and course for you

Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini are trying to improve education across India.

Brijesh Kumar Saroj, the son of a poor weaver, overcame every hardship, to make it to IIT-Bombay. When he cleared the IIT entrance exam, villagers threw stones at his home because he is Dalit. This has only hardened his resolve to 'make it in life'.

That's what teachers are telling students in many Indian schools.

Overseas consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right international education for you.

'The dark side is not me; I am a mama's boy,' Ganesh Venkatraman tells S Saraswathi.

Jaipur-based start-up Logic Roots aims to teach children math skills through board games.

Shriya Rangarajan has come a long way from the comforts of the western world.

In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to US admissions.

In an online chat, career counsellor Amit Bansal shared crucial career advice with readers on how to pick the right stream and college to study engineering.

Manobi Bandyopadhyay, India's first transgender principal of a college, speaks of her struggles in a moving interview.

Manobi Bandyopadhyay, India's first transgender principal of a college, speaks of her struggles in a moving interview.

Pranjul Bhandari, Chief India Economist, HSBC, speaks about a range of issues ranging from inflation, to how Goods and Services Tax and land acquisition bills can help India hit double digit growth, and her impressions about economic growth in the last one year after Narendra Modi took over as India's Prime Minister.

Asking employees whether they would prefer to work under a man or woman amounts to asking them to discriminate, positively or negatively, on the basis of gender.

Against all odds, the young and determined Varun Sharma has taken up the responsibility to bring electricity, education and empowerment to a remote tribal village in Odisha, says Manu A B.

Teachers often don't give their best or throw up their hands and assume that the student will figure it out with his tutor anyway. In the process, the entire school system is being made a mockery of.

Virender Kapoor is the former director of Symbiosis Institute of Management and knows a thing or two the making of a great leader. Here's what he has to tell you, our dear readers.

This is the safest Nano Tata has ever put into production.

In an online chat with readers, overseas consultant NNS Chandra offers career advice.

Son of a mechanic from the Public Works Department, Ayush Sharma has not only won admission to the undergraduate programme at the prestigious American university, but also a full tuition waiver.

Congress campaign seeking to paint the ruling party as anti-poor and anti-farmer seems to have unnerved the BJP, feels T N Ninan.

With Centre, state and municipal governments passing the buck on issues as critical as sanitation, Aditi Phadnis looks at the revolving door politics that is often played with the running of local self government

'The man who never knows when he is beaten deserved, on the day he played what will be his last World Cup game, mates who were not beaten in the mind before they were beaten on the field.' Prem Panicker salutes 'India's best one day captain by a long margin who led superbly throughout the tournament.'

In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.

'There is no change in the overall story of economic recovery.'

Inflation and asset prices have eroded the value of money.

Technically, the Indian economy is on road to recovery.

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 his penultimate State of the Union address, Barack Obama said that the economy is improving.

The 102nd Indian Science Congress, which concluded last week, saw claims on ancient aviation and surgery, and created quite a stir

Parents, take note! Schoolchildren who get a good night's sleep perform better in math and languages, a new study has found.

Neha Manglik, the only female CAT topper this year tells us how she did it.

'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.

Ditch your tuitions and expensive books; there is a way you can crack the GRE without burning a hole in your pocket.

Don't try to adopt them all in one shot. Pick one; make it a part of your life. Once it's a habit, pick the next.

When minnows Jammu and Kashmir defeated 40-times Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai on Wednesday, it was perhaps the biggest-ever shock victory in domestic Indian cricket. Rediff.com's Vaihayasi P Daniel and Sonil Dedhia spent time with the J&K team after their stunning triumph to discover the inspiring story of how these fine cricketers turned adversity into advantage.

'...But my strong suit will not be dancing,' Kal Penn tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com, in the concluding part of the interview.