Foreign varsities set to storm fortress India

Rumours are rife that under cover of the World Trade Organisation accords and the General Agreement on Trade in Services, cash-strapped western universities and educationists steeped in the art of infotech empowered pedagogies are massing to invade India, widely perceived as the world’s largest market for higher education

Ticking child healthcare time bomb

Far from being the worker bees of a rapidly ageing global population, India’s children may well mature into sickly low productivity adults requiring life-long medical care — a scenario which has global doomsday implications

Runaway demand for wedding planners

This is an untapped service industry which is growing gradually and the possibilities of extroverted customer service-oriented self-starters with an eye for detail keeping the cash registers ringing are great