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The power of social media has still not been harnessed in Indian classrooms as much as it should be. Schools and educational institutions are busy banning Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms rather than seeing how they can be…

1. PAIN vs PLEASURE IRCTC is the biggest success in e-commerce in India. It democratized Railway Tickets buying - the biggest pain point in the life of an Indian. At least the Indian who travelled in the '70s, '80s and '90s. As a young…

Tata has added another feather to its already crowded cap! They have unveiled a prototype of a approx. USD 20,000 electric car that can easily carry four passengers. The reason it should make us proud is because it has been fully engineered…

The Maharashtra government is going full throttle the online way. While online VAT payment is mandatory since more than a year now, the state government has moved a step forward to ensure that all types of tolls, taxes and statutory fines…

Have you ever heard the terms Twitterature, Twiller or Twiction? Or maybe Facebook fiction? If not, you're seriously missing out on the trend that has started since 2009 and is slowly gathering steam with more and more curious, excited,…

The Funding scene has come back to normalcy after a lackluster last week of 2011. Lets take a look at the funding deals that happened in the week starting December 2nd January 2012. Funding, M&A Deals of the Week…

Unlike Multi-brand Retail, which faced stiff resistance, Single Brand Retail Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) seems to have been approved without a hitch! Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry has just released a notification…

Peace of mind is what Indians prefer – a majority of the Indian consumers are wary of using technology-enabled banking services such as accessing online banking, mobile banking, utilizing ATMs or carrying out even basic credit card…

This looks like precisely the reason why Government has been so silent on matters pertaining to access of data from biggies like Nokia, RIM, Apple and others. They made a big hue & cry about it earlier last year, but everything went…

There is no doubt that India is one of the toughest countries to live for expats - and the recently released Expat Explorer survey conducted by HSBC reveals exactly that. Among the 31 countries surveyed, expats have ranked India as the…