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The National Sample Survey Office and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation recently released some of the key indicators of household consumer expenditure in India and it makes for some interesting reading. The NSSO…

$50 billion revenues in 2012; $250 billion market capitalization; 54000 employees all over the world; 1 billion search queries in a day; 900,000 servers scattered all around the world (using 0.01% of global electricity!) and $790 worth of…

India is a country that is obsessed with elections. We are a relatively new Democracy and we love to talk about politics. Only cricket is the other thing that can come that close to being a universal conversation opener in India. For the…

India's largest cellular service provider Airtel has decided to introduce the use of Aadhaar in its services in Delhi. They are following suit after Vodafone started including the use of India's ambitious unique identification system in…

Very recently, we presented you with a list of what we thought were the Top 5 Indian TV ads that do not make any sense. We are delighted by the response we got for that article. Many readers suggested their own “Make No Sense” ads in…

In a recent webcast titled “The Rise of India's Digital Consumer”, the director of ComScore, Kedar Gavane provided interesting insights into the growth of internet usage in India over the twelve months ending in July 2012. The…

Forbes unveiled its list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2012 and Sonia Gandhi was ranked 6th, even higher than US First Lady Michelle Obama. Other Indian women on the list were Indra Nooyi (12th), Padmashree Warrior (58th),…

Large swathes of India continue to remain isolated from the rise of information technology and the accompanying economic boom, with the result that migration to urban areas is still considered to be one of the first steps towards success.…

One of the most comprehensive school level survey conducted by TCS finds that Indian children between age of 12 and 18 are quickly adopting new modes of networking using social platforms like Facebook and Twitter and tools like instant…

A survey by Track2Realty has found that Indian home buyers are more interested in buying ready-to-move in properties rather than new and incomplete projects. The survey targeted the upper and middle class home buyers in 10 cities including…

Can you name all the states that fall within the title The Seven Sisters? Which is the second largest city in North East India after Calcutta? Mawsynram may be one of the places in India that received highest rainfall each year. But which…

This piece of news has left me shocked – According to a news appearing in ToI yesterday, Indian Central Information Commission (CIC) has said that an Individual’s passport information could be disclosed under the Right to Information Act…

TIME Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Economist and other such prestigious publications have year after year covered lists on the lines of Top 100 Influential Persons or Top 50 Women in Business. And the results have often carried the names…

4 Indian business schools out of 6 in the list have finally made the mark amongst top 10 B-schools in the Asia-Pacific region, according to QS Global 200 Business Schools Report. IIM-Ahmedabad is ranked second, IIM-Bangalore is ranked…

Indian Railways is bringing up much needed changes to the system and making life easier for Indian train travelers. For few years now, the only accepted way for E-Ticket confirmation was carrying a physical paper printout of tickets booked…

Indians are still attracted to West when it come to employment - Although, India is dubbed globally as land of opportunities, majority of Indians want to go abroad to work. That’s the finding by Work monitor report released by Ma Foi…

When ever you come across any resume or a LinkedIn profile or even a bio written by self - More often than not, you will find buzzwords, which have become kind of default. Infact, sometimes they are so overused, that they create an exact…

Airtel has released its annual customer preferences survey - Airtel Mobitude 2011 - of over 170 Million of its mobile subscribers. Except for Kolaveri Di unexpected success, most of the findings are pretty much in line with general mobile…

"Did you know that 31% of rural Indians have not even heard about internet (That’s more than entire population of Brazil). On the other hand, India has crossed 100 Million internet user landmark and average Indian internet users spends…

The internet growth in India has moved in the fast lane, especially due to the onslaught of low-cost smartphone devices and the resultant mobile internet boom. Moreover, the internet boom is likely to continue its good run as the high-speed…