Construction activities banned, more curbs as Delhi's air quality worsens

With pollution levels worsening, the Centre's air quality panel on Saturday directed authorities to impose a ban on construction and demolition activities in Delhi-NCR, except in essential......

And they say there are no jobs...

'Sachin Pilot once calculated that with a million Indians flooding the labour market every month, only an additional 12 million jobs annually could keep unemployment at the same level.''That's......

Delhi should follow Los Angeles and Beijing to fight air pollution

Here’s what the national capital needs to do to ensure the residents stop breathing toxic fumes, according to Ankur Bhardwaj. IMAGE: A schoolboy wearing a protective mask looks on from the......

Kidnapping mastermind still at large

Vaibhav Aggarwal, the teenager who was rescued from the clutches of his kidnappers, is back with his parents in Mumbai, but the police officials of the six states who conducted the joint operation......

400m entrepreneurs run businesses in 54 nations

In its 13th year, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's Global Report 2011 has witnessed an upsurge in entrepreneurship around the world in its findings.The GEM Global Report is an annual survey of......

From tech whizkids to top restaurateurs

Gaurav Jain and Pallavi Gupta were techies working in Bengaluru before they turned entrepreneurs. Mast Kalandar, the chain of restaurants they started in 2005, now has 18 outlets and they plan to......

B-schools to hike number of seats

Keep your chin up: That's what leading business schools have been advising their students at a time when the barrage of bad tidings can be overwhelming. B-schools are now putting that management......

Andhra Pradesh sanctions land to private B-schools

Premier private management schools are keen to set up campuses in Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh government is understood to have allotted land to three private B-schools to set up campuses in......

'Only 5% of India's 1.25 billion population is sports literate'

'Compare this with other countries like the United States, Sports or Physical Literacy is around 20 percent and in China more than one crore people play badminton alone.' IMAGE: Merely about 57......