Shubhda Hirawat, Tan-nistha Bandhopadhyay and Shubham Dhingra are delighted, as all three of them have been awarded the gold level in the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Awards, which is one of the most adaptable and successful youth empowerment programmes in the world.

We may all have heard of the phrase that the habit of saving is best inculcated young. However, today young professionals are going a step further —- striving for diverse, strong investments to develop the foundation of a good portfolio. Mutual funds, unit-linked plans, direct equities and a range of other options are getting quite popular among the youth with the focus being on putting that extra money to work.

Polio is 99% gone. Why stop there?” tweets Bill Gates with a link that says, “Join Us in Our Historic Opportunity to End Polio”. Gates and Warren Buffet, along with about 50 other world’s billionaires, launched The Giving Pledge a couple of years ago, appealing to the wealthiest in the world to give majority of their wealth to philanthrophy. Initially launched in the US, and then taken to other parts of the worlds via social media and contact programmes, the campaign now has even Mark Zuckerberg signing up.

Salman Khan is angry about it. Akshay Kumar pleads to stop it. Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor along with hordes of other actors have tried to spread awareness about it. Yet, piracy which is rampant in India, accounts for in excess of $4 billion per year (Ernst & Young). Is it because of weak anti-piracy laws, low awareness levels or do Indians just love to have a free laugh?

I have a dream of seeing India as the number one nation in the world in 2047 when she celebrates her centenary of independence,’’ says Dr Vijay Bhatkar, eminent scientist and architect of Param2 super

The two most important ingredients of any successful player are its sound quality and battery run time.

Over the few years, India Inc.

Targeted at youngsters, Byond’s new handset — Q99 — performs well. Despite being at a price point of `3,500, the phone is loaded with a number of communication applications.

Way back in 1992, when Environment Monitor-ing was probably an unheard of field of study, Rakesh Prakash along with his partner set up AlfaTech Services to help research institutions and individuals s

Environmental issues like climate change represent one of the most significant challenges facing managers, policy makers and scientists today.