Growing skill gap holding back Indian economy

Refusing paid internship offers at their institution, three young students from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, including one Kashmiri student, decided to skip their internships and instead came to Kashmir to offer free coaching for Kashmiri ...

Indias deep slumber was broken when an aspiring physiotherapist, young women with zeal for bright future, met with an extreme inhuman act of rape and brutality. The women, nicknamed

Cricket may be the sport of choice for aspiring young athletes across the City, but for a group of less-privileged kids, marathon running offers all the predominant benefits and thrills of competitive sport. The children, many of whom are aged as young as ...

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams today said she aspired to "identify" herself with the Indian youth. Williams, who holds the record for the longest space flight by a woman, had reportedly carried a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and an idol of Lord ...

India May 16(IM):Salman Khan has mentored a number of aspiring actors and the latest to have made it big is Arjun Kapoor. Son of producer Boney, the 'Ishaqzaade' star was encouraged to take up acting and he was given that much needed support to shed ...

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Monday clarified that V.Y. Manjunath, a young civil services aspirant who committed suicide in Bangalore, had not even qualified for the Civil Service...

Emphasising on bringing higher education closer to common man, President Pranab Mukherjee today said the dream of creating world class universities in India is an achievable aspiration. "We must remember that once we had world class universities ...

Mittu ChandilyaHe is just 33 — one of the youngest airline heads in India. Mittu Chandilya, who takes charge as AirAsia's CEO for India from June 1, has made his mark in the fashion world, too. Last year, readers of August Man, a fashion magazine ...

In spite of the liberalisation of the Indian economy which has opened up so many avenues of quality employment, an IAS berth still appeals to a large number of young Indians. For a select few like Manjunath, it becomes the be all and end all of their lives.