A robust education system reflects a country’s growth and prosperity. Education acts as the foundation for a brighter future of an individual. Over the last few decades, great strides in India’s education system are visible, though the focus on developing the right set of skills and providing training to create ... 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 »
New Delhi: The government plans to rank states on the basis of their performance in education—from the quality of their school infrastructure to learning outcomes. The idea is to instill a spirit of competition among states and get them to improve the quality of education that their students receive, two ... Read More »
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to take advantage of expectations that inflation will remain low in the near-term and cut interest rates again early next year with an aim to boost already-solid growth a little bit more, a Reuters poll found. New RBI Governor Urjit Patel and his ... 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 »
Jennifer Wood’s special event decoration rental business is about stories. She wants people to be able to create stories and have the right decor to tell their own story when they are planning for a wedding or other celebration. When Wood was planning her own 2011 wedding, she searched the ... Read More »
Debt laden Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom) of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has signed a non-binding term sheet for the sale of 51 per cent stake in its telecom tower business to Canada-based Brookfield Infrastructure Group, for an upfront cash payment of Rs 11,000 crore. Under the term sheet, ... Read More »
In the approach to the Smart Cities Mission, the Modi government’s objective is todrive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by enabling local development and harnessing technology as a means to create smart outcomes for citizens. A senior company executive of China’s Huawei Technologies said that ... Read More »
Dussehra, an auspicious day for homebuyers to book apartments, gave hopes to builders who have seen a slowdown for the last few years. The sales, although not very significant, have encouraged the realty estate market. Builders’ announcement of sops and incentives such as discounts, freebies such as vehicles, gold coins ... Read More »
Duke Energy Corp. has reached deals to sell the bulk of its international energy business for about $2.4 billion, roughly the lowered value of the businesses in its books. Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke, which last year bought Piedmont Natural Gas as it shifted focus to its regulated utilities business in the ... Read More »
Duke Energy Corp. has reached deals to sell the bulk of its international energy business for about $2.4 billion, roughly the lowered value of the businesses in its books. Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke, which last year bought Piedmont Natural Gas as it shifted focus to its regulated utilities business in the ... Read More »
One of the most notorious corners of the web could be about to become a victim of its own success. The owner of 4chan posted a warning last weekend that the anarchic bulletin board service was in financial straits. “What I wrote on 4chan was true,” Hiroyuki Nishimura told the ... Read More »
