Equitas Small Finance Bank chief people officer S. Muralidharan. Photo: Nathan G/Mint Chennai: When Equitas Small Finance Bank (then known as Equitas Microfinance Ltd) started the Equitas Development Initiatives Trust (EDIT) in February 2008, the idea was to render meaningful service to the community at large. Since then, the sole focus ... Read More »
“Stop fidgeting!” Every parent has uttered this one phrase at some point in their parenting life. But as it turns out, your parents had it wrong. Whether you twitch or tap, blink or shift, scribble or scratch, click or flick, there’s hope for you yet. New health research makes a ... Read More »
Today is D-Day in Washington — the confirmation debate and vote on Betsy DeVos, one of Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees and the most contested. Despite the assurance of President Trump’s spokesman Sean Spicer the confirmation is a cinch, the administration is making a last-ditch push today for DeVos in ... Read More »
China’s yuan firmed against the dollar on Friday after the central bank fixed a much stronger midpoint, but the currency is on course to be the worst performing major Asian currency this year and have its biggest annual loss since 1994. The yuan, which has reached an 8-1/2 year ... Read More »
Photographers Nienke Klunder and Wiglius de Bie have produced a photographic montage for LZF that juxtaposes fragments of several art movements, including Surrealism, De Stijl, and Modern. With dramatic effect, Klunder and de By present a number of LZF’s handmade wood lamps in a series of creative scenes. The radiant Dandelion, ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: Real estate consulting firm CBRE Group today released a report on the company’s findings of its survey on The Millennials. The survey provides an in-depth look at what defines Millennials as people (LIVE), employees (WORK) and as consumers (PLAY). The survey, conducted across 13 countries globally had India ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that voters had a fundamental right to know about the educational background of people contesting polls and that election of a candidate could be set aside for making false declaration on educational qualifications in the nomination paper. The ruling came when a ... Read More »
Soon, the government will rank all Indian states on the basis of their performance in education. The ranking parameters will include quality of school infrastructure, learning and research outcomes, innovation and much more. The whole idea behind this is to introduce a spirit of competition among states and push them ... Read More »
Finance ministry and state finance ministry officials gathered in New Delhi on Tuesday for a three-day meeting that will seek to finalise the main rate of the Goods and Services Tax and pave the way for its introduction next April. The long-delayed tax, which would transform Asia’s third-largest economy into ... Read More »
A senior army officer said terrorists may have set tents on fire in the Uri army Base, and as soldiers ran out, shot them. He also hinted that they are combing through the base carefully, with the presumption that at least two more terrorists are holed up inside the station. ... Read More »
SBI Life Insurance Company, a joint venture between the State Bank of India and French insurer BNP Paribas Cardif, is set to become the number one life insurance company in the private sector, according to a top company official. This is despite the fact that HDFC Life and Max Life ... Read More »
I’ve been obsessed with William Gibson’s last novel, “The Peripheral,” since it came out in 2014. It touches on many widely discussed themes in 2016, including growing economic inequality, rule by technology, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Gibson is most famous for inventing the term “cyberspace,” which he coined in his 1982 short story, “Burning ... Read More »
