Recently, 25-year-old Bikram Ray from Chinsura, a small town 45 kilometres north of Calcutta, got a job at the Indian Ordnance Factory in Hyderabad. It was no mean achievement for the elder son of a v...

Official language has its own codes. In it, the word ‘advice’ is seldom a disinterested attempt to help. So when the University Grants Commission ‘advises’ universities to adopt the series of ...

When we talk of skilling, we generally tend to think of the underprivileged or people who are not highly educated as needing it. However, that is not always correct. In very simple terms, the differen...

Chamru Hussain from Matelli village in the district of Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, wanted to pull his family of four out of the poverty pit. He worked as assistant to his father, hair cutter Madis Huss...

Jharkhand government believes it can achieve its target of offering job letters to one lakh skilled youths during the Global Skill Summit that will be held at the mega sports complex at Hotwar on the ...

q I wanted to give up smoking, so I switched to vaping. Now I have severe throat pain and feel sick all the time.Vaping uses electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) to avoid the paper, tar and other chem...

Over 20,000 people are expected to attend the state’s maiden Global Skill Summit-2019 at the mega sports complex at Hotwar on the outskirts of the capital, the daylong event promising to showcase th...

The best way to keep any skill or culture alive is to pass it on to the next generation. That’s is what Maati Ghar, a Jamshedpur-based start-up that works to preserve and promote tribal art and cult...

Emirates Driving Institute (EDI), “the largest and the most successful” driving cradle in Dubai and West Asia, is likely to open doors in the state capital later this year.Chief operating officer ...