Sacred thread controversy: Congress minister offers free engineering seat as Brahmins pour out their angerA controversy has erupted in Karnataka after students were allegedly forced to remove their sacred threads before taking the CET exam. Brah...
20 Apr, 2025, 05.30 PM IST
Delhi CEO compares Bengaluru's startup scene to Kota's JEE craze in 2005. Check four reasons behind itShantanu Deshpande compares Bangalore's startup culture to Kota's coaching hub for IIT JEE aspirants in 2005, highlighting how an environme...
29 Aug, 2024, 03.42 PM IST
The storm riders: Covid entrepreneurs hope to scale up as pandemic subsidesThe combination of new, easily accessible technologies, funds and work-from-home format proved to be a catalyst for new businesses. And the...
03 Oct, 2022, 09.40 AM IST
View: Indian fetish for status chokes entrepreneurial successIn India, people are constantly appreciating status. They have so many awards. 'Face' matters a lot - as does 'losing face' - as does givin...
19 Jul, 2022, 01.16 AM IST
Ed Tech: Monitoring the online tutorsThe pandemic saw a flurry of online tech enabled tutors – from Byju’s or Unacademy to New Oriental Education or Koolearn Technology Holding...
26 Aug, 2021, 10.50 PM IST
View: How to reform the Indian Administrative ServiceWhat is so attractive about being an IAS officer? It is certainly not the official compensation package. Is it the intrinsic motivation of ...
26 Aug, 2020, 10.53 AM IST
Robert Downey Jr, Jay Z, Durant back life insurance startupThe company’s core product is a streamlined, and affordable process for buying term insurance -- which pays out benefits if the insured die...
15 Jun, 2018, 11.43 AM IST
Planning to be an entrepreneur? Ask yourself these 5 questions firstSo you want to be an entrepreneur. However, before you embark on your dream business, ask yourself some tough questions and answer them hon...
18 Dec, 2017, 06.30 AM IST
Why profit is the startup scene’s new catchwordIn the past six months, two of the Indian startup scene’s best-funded companies, InMobi and Byju’s, have been using the p-word regularly.
04 Jun, 2017, 10.43 AM IST
Kota's Career Point University entrepreneurship cell turns incubator for startupsCareer Point University has 1,600 students studying engineering, computer applications and MBA, but it is mainly known as a coaching centre.
31 Mar, 2015, 06.15 AM IST
Welcome to 'Powai Valley', India's new start-up hubWhat is brewing in Powai Valley, a moniker given by VCs, is unlike Bangalore and the NCR, largely because most of the start-ups in Powai ar...
21 Jan, 2014, 10.17 AM IST
Sachin's last test: India Inc puts giant screens and online games at workplaceSome have made sure that they will be present at the ground like Dubai-based market research analyst Rishabh Prasad and two of his Indian c...
14 Nov, 2013, 12.10 PM IST
Goa girl creates touch-free phone technologyThe next 'in' feature for your smart phone might very well be gesture-recognition and it is a young Goan who is behind the innovation.
22 May, 2013, 11.48 AM IST
5 ways to cope if your first venture failsSuccess has many fathers and failure is an orphan, many young people are afraid of starting up, or simply give up when their first venture ...
19 Apr, 2013, 04.21 AM IST
The $3 million prize may draw people to physics: Ashoke SenAshoke Sen says heoretical physics research doesn't need elaborate infrastructure.
05 Aug, 2012, 11.18 AM IST
- Huge hit: iPad news gathering software made by 2 Indians
While 30,000 iPad users have downloaded their app so far, there are two million users out there. Apple iPad | Apple's iPad: A game changer?...
05 Jun, 2010, 10.50 PM IST
- PEs pump in $140 million in education since Jan 2010
Education has emerged one of the most lucrative sectors in India, making private equity investors line up in big numbers to the $80-billion...
19 May, 2010, 07.10 AM IST