Union Budget 2025: Will 10K new medical seats curb students outflow?

The government's announcement in the Union Budget to create 10,000 additional seats in medical colleges next year has been welcomed by education experts and stakeholders, saying the move will......

Where Would India Be Without Dr Singh?

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......

Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Will Chandrayaan's Success Make Science More Robust In India?

'Perhaps the government should explain how the same scientific temper, which authored a precise landing for Chandrayaan-3, finds the periodic table and the theory of evolution not good enough for......

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal to focus more on long-term strategy

To drive scale, speed, and quality, Aggarwal said he is expanding Ola Group’s chief financial officer (CFO) G R Arun Kumar’s role to help him steer ‘day-to-day operations’......

Wipro buys global consultancy firm Capco for $1.45 bn

Bengaluru-headquartered IT services major Wipro Limited on Thursday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Capco, a global management and technology consultancy to the banking and......

Economist Kalpana Kochhar to retire from IMF in July

Indian economist Kalpana Kochhar, who heads the Human Resources Department of the International Monetary Fund, is leaving the organisation to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the IMF......

Army officers enter corporate battleground

Looking for lucarative options, a batch of 22 Armed forces officers, enrolled for the post graduate course in business management at an institute in Mumbai are now planning to move into the......

Wadekar gets lifetime award, Chand best jr cricketer

Former skipper Ajit Wadekar under whose leadership India won the historical Test series against the West Indies in 1971, was selected for the Castrol Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution......