If the United States wants to stock its own industry with top-flight technologists, The Washington Post has advocated training young Americans rather than depending on foreign students to boost its economy.

The marketing spiel is right: you spend, we pay. But how effective, really, is the Citibank Cash Back card?

I don't place much emphasis on timing the market. Stocks don't move up because we buy them, says Ramesh S Damani

The transcript of the CAT analysis chat with Rakesh Kumar and Munish Kumar of Top Careers And You.

"CAT has not changed colours since 1999. It is time for a change. Be prepared for the worst," warns Manish Salian, Regional Head (Academics), Western Zone, Career Launcher.

"Every one of you has the capability to crack the test," says Prasad Rao, product head at IMS Learning Resources Pvt Ltd.

Munira, head of the Western Zone content development team, Career Launcher, advises not to give any full-length tests on the eve of the Common Admission Test.

Manish Salian, Regional Head (Academics), Western Zone, Career Launcher, says, "CAT is a relative exam. Everybody sees the same questions."

'India is developing call centres and Saudi Arabia is developing madrassas. One is calling the world, in a perfect accent, the other is calling God, in only one language.'

Whenever I see your photograph, I wonder why you had to get a stroke before the big day in my life. A son pays tribute to his father.

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has strongly defended free trade in goods and services, now under attack by John Kerry and John Edwards

Dr Raj Pandian tells Arthur J Pais about his invention, which was among The New York Times Magazine's Outstanding Ideas of 2003

Now there are hybrid term insurance plans available, which also offer the benefit of 'return of premium' in case the life assured were to live through the tenure of the policy.

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