ET Soonicorns Summit grows its footprint with Hyderabad launch of ET Soonicorns Sundowner seriesThe inaugural ET Soonicorns Sundowner in Hyderabad offered an unvarnished look at what it takes to build, scale, and survive in India’s fas...
08 Sep, 2025, 02.27 PM IST
UPI at a crossroads? Deep unease in the informal sector as tax axe fallsIndia's UPI system, despite its global success, faces backlash as small vendors receive GST notices based on digital transaction data. This...
31 Jul, 2025, 11.12 AM IST
She was a Miss India finalist, cracked UPSC without coaching; but why didn't she choose to become an IAS officer?From fashion ramps to the Ministry of External Affairs, Aishwarya Sheoran defied expectations by leaving a modelling career to pursue civil...
07 Jun, 2025, 10.28 PM IST
In a divorce case in Supreme Court, wife gets a flat near Mumbai without paying any stamp duty for transferDivorce: On February 28, 2025 a husband won a divorce case in the Suprme Court without having to pay any alimony to wife. But the Supreme C...
17 Mar, 2025, 10.44 AM IST
Will Section 66A finally be laid to rest?On March 24, 2015, the Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the IT Act as unconstitutional in a landmark judgement for free speech—Shre...
10 Jul, 2021, 09.57 AM IST
View: Arbitration in India not only needs to be institutionalised, but also should be assuring and affordableThe Supreme Court took note of this malaise in the 2009 ‘Union of India vs Singh Builders Syndicate’ case by observing that ‘…the cost of a...
10 May, 2021, 10.51 AM IST
How Yogi Adityanath is beginning to recast UP as a business friendly destinationMurder and mandir politics dominate the headlines from Uttar Pradesh. In the din, it’s easy to miss Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s unlike...
02 Aug, 2020, 09.30 AM IST
View: Lateral entry, a radical reform but not enough to change systemThose in private sector don’t believe in formalities and hierarchy and this will be a major stumbling block
22 Apr, 2019, 07.18 AM IST
Be it Mumbai or Changi, what is local may not always be global in airport designWhen GMR Infrastructure built India’s first private sector airport in Hyderabad ten years ago, it consciously eschewed cultural symbols.
15 Mar, 2016, 05.24 AM IST
What central government employees can expect from the 7th Pay CommissionA formula towards pay parity has been the hallmark of the last few pay commissions. A government entry-level peon now gets a monthly pay of...
29 Mar, 2015, 06.32 AM IST
We will introduce Jan Lokpal Bill in the first assembly session: Arvind Kejriwal'We’ll pick up from where we left. People have voted to bring back the 49-day government. So we’ll give them exactly that,' says AAP chief ...
11 Feb, 2015, 08.47 AM IST
IITs get help to spruce up students’ soft skillsThe institutes look to increase job readiness; focus on spoken and written communication skills and Android app development, among other th...
29 Aug, 2014, 03.51 PM IST
Advantage private: Easier tariff guidelines for government-run ports not sufficient to revive themThe least the shipping ministry can do under these sorry circumstances is to migrate to the 2013 Guidelines. But even that has been hanging...
03 Aug, 2014, 06.38 AM IST
Lok Sabha Polls: Meet the sons & daughters of political families who are ready to take the baton'If more and more sons and daughters of top politicians get tickets, where will the self-made honest youngsters join up?'
30 Mar, 2014, 07.10 AM IST
India's best strategists: 15 dreamers who have translated their insight into realityFor some it's still work in progress, but that they are steadfast in their belief that this is the 'right' thing to do has propelled them o...
22 Sep, 2013, 10.42 AM IST