Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits.

Dozens of businesses and a concerned government get down to training India. Saumya Bhattacharya and Shamni Pande join the dots on India's skilling revolution.

The manufacturing sector leads the way with a hiring outlook of 56 per cent, followed by finance, insurance and real estate (55 per cent).

It is now critical to nurture individuals through their primary and tertiary education journeys by providing them life skills that combine core hard skills like vocational skills, with soft skills like mindsets, aspirations, and values.

Business school students have a reason to rejoice as after years of dull placements corporate houses and placement agencies are once again crowding the corridors with job offers.

The networking giant, fresh from topping $1 billion in India revenues, begins walking its talk in the hinterland.

AICTE controls have only facilitated the mushrooming of dubious management institutes, strangulating the growth of good ones in the process.

Crisil has launched grading of management programmes of business schools to help students choose educational institutions.

Finance, marketing and human resources will witness maximum recruitment in 2011.

The government in a landmark move decides to give tribals and other affected populations a share of the profits made from exploiting mineral resources from their land.

Some 400 million kids below the age of 15 are India's most conspicuous consumers, lapping up not just toys, gadgets, phones and clothes but also counselling parents on big ticket purchases.

The firm posts profit of Rs 23.30 crore for the July-Sept quarter this fiscal, down from Rs 97.5 crore in the previous quarter as wage hikes squeezed margins.

Akhila Srinivasan devotes roughly 80 per cent of her time to managing Shriram Life Insurance, one of the companies in the Rs 40,000 crore Shriram Group.

Admission consultants are becoming popular in India among MBA aspirants.

Finishing schools are no longer the domain of brides-to-be and beauty pageant contestants. Corporates across the country are enrolling for etiquette training. Here's why.

The book addresses the gaps in B-school education and provokes thoughtful discussions, says Bala V. Balachandran.

As the growing band of politicians with business degrees swells, the big question is: can B-schools contribute to the quality of governance in India?

BT and Nielsen listen in as B-school aspirants, students and graduates turn to the Internet in droves for counselling, sharing their experiences and improving prospects.

IIMs and other B-schools still gravitate towards engineers - contrary to the trend in MBA admissions globally.

There is a downside to jugaad — it often leads to solutions which do not create lasting improvements.