IMAGE: BJP supporters, wearing masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, raise slogans. Photograph: Ashok Bhaumik/PTI Photo A week before the first phase of elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata......
The INS Chakra III will be ideal for 'sea denial' missions, in which the submarine denies the enemy the use of the sea.Ajai Shukla reports. Photograph: Reuters Underlining slow progress in the......
Unlike conventional subs that must surface every 48 to 72 hours, these subs can stay submerged for up to 14 days.Ajai Shukla reports. IMAGE: The Indian Navy currently has a submarine fleet......
Ahead of the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, politicians from different parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters. Sharad Singh Kumar, of the Rashtriya Aamjan Party......
After protracted negotiations, Russia has agreed to lease a second nuclear submarine to India in a deal which will cost around $2 billion (Rs 13,330 crore). Sources on Wednesday said the deal was......
His former colleagues might have succeeded in pushing him out of microfinance, but it is difficult to push microfinance out of him. SKS Microfinance Ltd, the company Vikram Akula conceived, built......
One of India's most successful bottom-of-the-pyramid entrepreneurs parries questions on several issues that have arisen around his venture, Kanika Datta. Vikram Akula would be hard to pick out......
In 2012, Akula quit as chairman of Bharat Financial Inclusion (formerly SKS Microfinance), which he’d founded and led to a successful initial public offering Hyderabad-based Vaya Finserv is......
It might be difficult to repeat the SKS success with VAYA Finserv, say analysts Vikram Akula, once the poster boy of India’s microfinance industry, is scripting a comeback with VAYA Finserv,......
Biksham Gujja contributed to major global initiatives such as the World Commission on Dams, World Water Commission and World Water Forum. Vikram Akula, the poster boy of India’s microfinance......
IMAGE: Manika Batra is the first Indian player to make it to the top eight of a WTT Champions tournament. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters >Manika Batra's historic run at the World Table......
IMAGE: Manika Batra saved two game points in the third game to keep her nose ahead and then sealed the tie in the next game, converting her second match point. Photograph: WTT/X Star Indian......
IMAGE: Manika Batra in action. Photograph: Paul Childs / Reuters India's table tennis star Manika Batra produced a dominant performance to defeat America's Lily Zhang 3-0 to advance into the......
IMAGE: Sreeja Akula. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters India's top-ranked table tennis player Sreeja Akula has been sidelined for six weeks due to a stress fracture. "I'm sorry to share that I......
IMAGE: The Indian women's team celebrate winning their maiden bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Astana. Photograph: SAI Media/X The Indian men's table tennis team assured itself of its......