Editorial

Editorial

Spring is in the Air Winter is out and spring, however short is creeping in. The nation’s capital hardly felt the cold this winter and the famous Dilli ki Sardi seems almost to be a thing of the past. Anyway, with spring comes new hope always and this time our cover story is one of great ambiti...

UP-TO-DATE

INDIAN TEAM WINS U-19 WORLD CUP

IThere were at least multiple layers of auditing system which chose to either look the other way or do a casual job. You had inadequate supervision u-19 woRlD cuP// India’s Under 19 cricket team made history when it lifted the U-19 World Cup on February 3 by defeating Australia. India is the fi...

Cover Story

YOUNG AND DREAMING BIG

Being young is wonderful, but being young and rich on your own merit is a badge. To raise enough capital to start a business and maintain it is among the toughest things. There are young men in India who have risen and managed to start and develop big businesses into empires and fortunes. . Ream...

Platform

BUDGET 2018 NOT DEFENCE FRIENDLY

Leave aside modernisation,the nominal increase in unlikely to contribute even towards compensating for the shortages in ammunition and equipment as its is barely sufficient to allow for the annual rate of inflation. PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi has described the 2018-19 budget as “farmer friend...

Banking

REMEDY WORSE THAN DISEASE

As NPAs skyrocket,a move is afoot to empower bank with a bail-in provision which would allow them to freeze and seize depositors'money.With the bail-in coming in,there may be no government bail-out the future. India achieved a landmark in the second quarter of the last financial year when deposit...

Politics

HASHIMPURA, SREBRENICA, RAKHINE: SIMILAR, YET SO DIFFERENT

Incidents, similar in their chilling monstrosity, came to mind when I saw photographs of a row of Rohingya Muslim young men, on their knees, their hands tied behind their back. Gun-wielding military police, lurking within the frame, eventually mowed them down This is the face of the horror the wo...

AWARD

PUBLISHING ICON

Ashok Kumar Malhotra, Founder of the MBD Group — a first-generation entrepreneur and a pioneer of the publishing industry in India—has been honoured as a “Publishing Icon” by the International Publishers Congress 2018. The International Publishers Congress 2018 was hosted by the Internatio...

Modicare

REVOLUTION, MODICARE

It has been labeled the most ambitious health care project ever and was soon compared to the much-touted Obamacare in the US which is under review by the present Trump adminstration.How similar are these two helthcare missions of the two of the world's biggest democracies? Budget 2018’s biggest...

International

RUSSIA’S JAMES BOND

Whether he's hunting shirtless playing ice hockey or tooling around in a mini-submarine,Russian boss Vladimir Putin looks as if he's auditining for the role of a Bond film.At Russia's helm for 18 years, Putin has been Forbes most powerful person for four years running.The man who lives liks aRussi...

Technology

TIME TO INTRODUCE ROBOTICS AT SCHOOL LEVEL

One of the most frequent and widely supportes call for change in contemporary education is for a newly envisioned curriculum that integrates math,science and technology content and skills.although robotics may at first seem exotic,on closer examination,it provides a natural fit with meaningful pro...

Budget

UNION BUDGET 2018 KEY POINTS FROM FM ARUN JAITLEY’S FIFTH BUDGET

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitly presented the last full budget of the NDA government before India goes to polls for the General Elections due in 2019.This is the first budget after big-ticket economic reforms sunch as the Goods and Services Tax,dynamic fuel pricing,mega PSU bank recapitalistion...

Reading Room

SOME GOOD READS AHEAD

Nothing like spending some intimate times with a great book. A great book, as they say, will always leave you with many experiences, in the head and outside. In fact, much like acting you lead several lives while reading a book. So here are some great books for you to get into. A Century is Not E...