I will promote better Indo-Pak ties: Howard Dean

For eleven years, Howard Deanhas beengovernor of Vermont. For eleven years, he balanced budgets, created 20% more jobs, raised the minimum wage and provided health care for nearly every child in......

Is India winning or losing?

With outsourcing tailwinds at its back, India is set to sail.The country is anxious to exploit its newfound strengths to leapfrog to first-world status and win global recognition. Although this is......

One of us, one of them

A year ago, Rajendra Pachauri was appointed to head the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, a cooperative effort at assessing the planet's environmental health regularly. The appointment of......

With Aero, Adobe bets on a game-changer for AR

Project Aero will enable creative executives and developers to design AR experiences and new forms of immersive content. But, what makes it special is that for the first time users will be able to......

This Apple computer is worth Rs 3.7 crore!

Image: Apple-1 Personal Computer. Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Christie's A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 will......

'Speed money' puts brakes on India's retail growth

India is the next great frontier for global retailers, a $500 billion market growing at 20 per cent a year. Hong-Kong entrepreneur Ramesh Tainwala spent 18 months operating branded clothing retail......

Refrigerators, lamps to have ratings from Jan

The government will make energy efficiency labels mandatory for four appliances, including refrigerators and florescent lamps, from January 7 next year. "BEE will bring out a notification for the......

'I don't make films on ordinary problems'

'What can you possibly want to ask me that you haven't before?' Adoor Gopalakrishnan responds, when I telephone him at the Mayflower Hotel, in New York City, asking for an interview.He remembers an......

Benaud calls for ban on minnows

Richie Benaud added his voice on Sunday to calls for Bangladesh and Zimbabwe to be dropped from senior international cricket.The Australia cricket great, currently in England where he is......