In Pic :The restaurants in the newly-added areas are expected to cater to those living in slums, daily labourers, drivers, load men and migrant workers — Photo: R. Ravindran. Inauguration coincides with birthday of CM Jayalalithaa; suggestions to include appalam, pickle, thuvayal in set lunch menu The Chennai Corporation on Saturday announced the 24 locations where a budget restaurant each will be opened on Sunday. The inauguration of the ‘Amma […]

Piqued over loosing out to an Indian farmer who beat his world record by harvesting 22.4 tonnes of rice per hector, a top Chinese scientist known as the “father of hybrid rice” has questioned the feat, terming it as “fake”. It is “120% fake”,Yuan Longping, who held the record earlier by growing 19.4 tonnes of rice in 2011, was quoted as saying by the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. […]

Linda Stewart used a Kelowna-based company www.Meditours.org to arrange a medical tourism trip in May 2010 to get an experimental treatment for MS in India. Stewart is one of the unknown number of Canadians using medical tourism to access experimental treatments not offered in Canada. Shaz Pendharkar, of Kelowna, B.C., is the first to admit he isn’t a trained medical professional. He is a retired school principal who connects patients to […]

It is not the lack of skills and poor education institutes, but the lack of passion to learn and poor choices that is holding India’s young grads back. Read on for interesting insights from a recent roundtable held in Mumbai. Just when most of us were reeling from the after-effects of the McKinsey report that a majority of young Indians are unfit for employment, Raman Madhok, Group Director, Human resources, […]

Thursday will open its first store in India’s capital, bringing to seven the total number of outlets it’s operating in the country. A 3,500-square-foot store, staffed with almost 40 people, in Delhi’s British-era Connaught Place is the first of a number of outlets Starbucks plans for New Delhi. The Seattle-based coffee chain in India is dipping its toes into a potentially huge market, but one where the difficulty of finding […]