Does faith make you live better?As individuals age, their materialistic pursuits tend to yield to religious beliefs and practices.Women are often inclined to be more relig...
Electrolux announces 4,000 lay-offs worldwide"The majority of the targeted cost savings will be realised in business area North America", AFP reported the company as saying. It added t...
Jury finds Bill Cosby sexually abused 16-year-old at Playboy Mansion in 1975The jurors' decision is a major legal defeat for the 84-year-old entertainer once hailed as America's dad.
'He-said-she-said case.' Bill Cosby's lawyer urges jurors to consider only proof in sexual abuse caseCosby has been accused by a woman who says he sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
Andy Serkis to receive top honour at BAFTA for 'revolutionary' contribution to cinemaThe 55-year-old actor will receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.
Nobel Laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo on free trade & growth from their forthcoming book- Good Economics for Hard TimesIt is so rooted in our culture that we sometimes forget that the case for free trade is by no means self-evident.
Family office gains ground among India’s super richFamily offices have a much wider role than that of financial advisers, or even wealth advisers, whose services are used by high net worth i...
Subramanian Swamy to focus on Ram Temple, Herald, Aircel Maxis cases"If I apply Samuelson-Swamy Theory of Index Numbers to India's GDP calculation or RBI interests rates, media will scream anti party activit...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be interrogated soon by Swedish authoritiesIn April, the activist had said he consented to the Swedish prosecutor's conditions for the interrogation procedure to take place at the em...
Sweden offers to question Julian Assange in UKSweden sought Assange's arrest in 2010 but he denies the assault claims and has sought refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 201...
Poke Me: Why India should legalise casinosSince the mommy state cannot stop increasingly rich Indians from gambling, wouldn’t it make more sense to just cash in?
Choose the right Nobel winnerForget tweaking NREGS, morph it into an apprenticeship programme to transform our labour market.
- Publish or perish
The lack of academic research is worrying, B-Schools must boost research.
- Outsourcing emerged as new business strategy in early 1980s
Apart from decreasing the management layers, outsourcing to a country with cheap labour also resulted in cost benefits.
- Obama takes stage as change agent
Hillary Clinton is taking a page out of Walter Mondale’s playbook and asking voters this question about Barack Obama’s mostly boilerplate p...
- 'Bad time to be an IT professional in US'
It is a bad time to be an IT pro in the US unless you are into some really high-end & customised work.
- Essar Telecom ties up with Virgin Group
The idea is to get into a co-branding pact for Essar Telecom’s retail stores christened "The Mobile Store".