A day after the unceremonious removal of Cyrus Mistry, Ratan Tata took charge as the interim chairman of Tata Sons at Bombay House and addressed the managing directors and senior leaders of companies in the group. He asked them to focus on leadership in their respective markets and enhance returns ... Read More »

The Italian Restaurant Mario is located in the city of Brest, on the first floor of the Diagonal business center. The concept was to create a format of family cafe by interior designer Andrey Polienko. The target audiences are office workers and residents of the surrounding area of the complex. There ... Read More »

Warrington-based firm DV8 Designs was appointed to creatively redesign existing office space for YKK (U.K) Ltd. The architectural and interior design team, headed by Managing Director Lee Birchall, has refreshed the manufacturing company’s existing office space. Lee said: “We were approached by YKK (U.K) Ltd. who are based in Preston Brook, near ... Read More »

The team of Carve and Omgeving (design) and Krinkels (contractor) won the international competition to design an adventurous play-scape and landmark on a ‘terril‘ in Beringen, Belgium, in January 2015. The adventure mountain is part of the tourist, recreative project Be-MINE, that aims to breathe new life into the monumental ... Read More »

Male fertility comes down to one thing in many cases: sperm motility. If they’re not good swimmers, fertility can be an issue, reports the Independent. But researchers at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK are reporting (though not yet in a peer-reviewed scientific journal) that they may have hit ... Read More »

Kids with persistent symptoms months after a concussion have lower quality of life than kids who have recovered, but even kids who recovered quickly may still struggle, according to a new Canadian study. “While it has been long-understood that brain injuries may negatively impact quality-of-life (especially in those patients with ... Read More »

UNITED NATIONS –  A U.N. expert says junk food is a human rights concern. Hilal Elver, the U.N.’s special representative on the right to food, said Tuesday the rise of industrial food production combined with trade liberalization has allowed large corporations to flood the global market with cheap, nutrient-poor foods ... Read More »

Students at a Chinese university now have the option to test themselves for HIV at their convenience, as they can now purchase affordable testing kits in vending machines. The urine test kits cost approximately $4.40 and are sold next to instant noodles and other snacks at Southwest Petroleum University in ... Read More »

State-run universities, deemed universities and other educational institutions should be pushed to provide quality education that can transform youngsters who can solve problems that the country is facing, Secretary to the Union Ministry of Biotechnology, K. Vijay Raghavan has said. Skilled labourers Addressing the sixth convocation programme of Yenepoya University ... Read More »

NEW DELHI — According to the Narendra Modi government, using the word “sex” in a government document for framing policy on sex education for school students can “offend” people. Even though it is unclear who these “people” are, reported The Telegraph, the human resource development (HRD) ministry asked an expert ... Read More »

New Delhi, Oct. 23: One word (and its derivatives) must be taboo for any policy document on sex education for teens, the NDA government believes. That word is “sex”. The human resource development ministry has forced an expert panel to condense its recommendations on adolescent education to just one sentence ... Read More »

Enthused by speedy recovery of loans worth $2.5 billion by three lenders, including ICICI Bank, within days of a mega $13-billion Essar deal, banks are now looking at the resolution of stressed assets totalling about 1.50 lakh crore in the coming months. Having broadly completed the first two stages of ... Read More »