New York Labor Day Parade Was A Spectacle!

Thousands of workers of every description -- from journalists to steel workers, from painters to New York cops, from auto to engineering workers -- marched for four hours down 5th Avenue one of......

How 156 Soldiers Built A Bridge of Hope In 36 Hours

'It was a war-like situation, but instead of enemy fire, we fought against the vagaries of nature,' says Major Seeta Shelke. IMAGE: The Madras Sappers constructed a 190 feet-long Bailey bridge in......

NEET: Cure The Disease Not The Symptoms

'The Indian private sector knows how to build and run educational organisations, what is needed is a large dose of removal of restrictions.''Government restrictions hold back universities in India......

'Nuclear Has To Get Into Achche Din'

'Chinese are going bang, bang, bang building 30-35 reactors.''We should announce a programme of 50 new reactors and show that we mean business on the ground and not just announcements.' IMAGE:......

Have You Heard Of Crotonville?

The top-notch faculty at Crotonville, including Noel Tichy, Ram Charan, Vijay Govindarajan, along with GE's top leaders Jack Welch, Gary Reiner, Bill Conaty, Jeffrey Immelt and Susan Peters,......

Nilekani donates Rs 315 cr to alma mater IIT-Bombay

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and chairman of Infosys and the founding chairman of UIDAI, has donated Rs 315 crore to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. IMAGE: Nandan Nilekani.......

The Big Mac Inflation Index

The ever-astute Ravi Matthai, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1971, offered me a basic salary of Rs 1,000 per month on my return from the United States.I doubt if IIMA......

Jugaad An Insult To Indian Innovation?

'When resources are few; when frugality demands repairing a broken thing rather than replacing it with a brand new and expensive option, enterprising commoners in rural and urban India improvise on......

Paralympics: India's Sachin Khilari earns silver in men's shot put

IMAGE: Sachin Khilari achieved his best throw of the day in his second attempt to better his own Asian record of 16.30m. Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters World champion Sachin Sarjerao Khilari......