What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister......
Software icon NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending $1 billion a year to train school teachers by 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India......
'I did not take up research for any award.''What is more important is the medicine that I have developed.''This helps the patient recover and the family is happy that their relative has survived......
'We will teach them about our idol Mohammad Sahab and all the great men of other religions as well -- about Shri Ram, Krishna, Yeshu, Bhagwan Mahavir.' 'We want children from the madrasas to become......
Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral......
An additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders, while a similar wealth tax on the 98 richest billionaire families......
Boston-based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organisation, is targeting to sell 1 million OLPC XO laptops in India by the end of the current financial year. OLPC XO is especially......
The HRD ministry aims to enroll 6.6 million more students in secondary schools in the 11th Plan period. With almost half the children in the age group of 14-16 years out of the secondary education......
The Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 award is to be announced on Monday, and there are four contenders. Those in the reckoning for the World Economic Forum's Indian Social Entrepreneur......
'He is a role model for Indian industry.'Debasis Mohapatra reports. Photograph: Reuters It is one thing to be successful and another to make others benefit from your success. As Wipro's founder......
In the mid 1980s, Swaroop Sampat Rawal was at the peak of her acting career with Kundan Shah's hit television sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, where she played Renu, the wife of the late actor Shafi......
A former pace bowler, James Sutherland helped turn the game into a commercial powerhouse in Australia's crowded sports market. IMAGE: After a 17-year tenure, James Sutherland resigned as Chief......
"Big brother Roger," as the village schoolteachers call him, smiles at the small children and asks them to guess which sport he plays. Most of the bright-eyed three-year-olds have no idea who their......