Women from the fishing village of Worli in Mumbai are reaching out to markets worldwide through jewellery created from fallen wood, glass and the like, thanks to entrepreneur Tarun Thadani

A sweet revolution is on in the sugarcane fields of Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district, where best management practices have been ushered in, helping women farmers, says Nitin Jugran Bahuguna

After founding a coffee bar at Ramallah, Huda El-Jack broke the glass ceiling and become the first CEO of a publicly traded Palestinian business. Abigail Klein Leichman profiles the woman

Supermarkets are part of the upmarket urban landscape. But Nadeem Jafri took his retail chain to the city’s underbelly and villages creating rural entrepreneurs, says Kavita Kanan Chandra

MC Mary Kom has been taking on the world on her own terms with uninterrupted success. Her next goal: gold in London Olympics. The five-time women’s world boxing champion spoke to Ajay Rana

A lawyer by profession Vasuki Sunkavalli took to modelling and ended up becoming Miss Universe India 2011. But she is not thinking of films yet. Her eyes are set on the Miss Universe title

Rahul Kanwal, Executive Editor of Headlines Today, started early and still goes strong. Being the youngest chap to head a news channel is not a kid’s job. But for him it's like child’s play

Turning an almost defunct Bridges Corporation in Bihar to a profitable enterprise did not happen without hiccups for Pratyay Amrit. Rajan Prakash meets him and finds out how he pulled it off

South Carolina's Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley is all set to publish her memoir just shy of her 40th birthday. Haley is America's youngest governor, reports Arun Kumar from Washington

Women in a hamlet in Uttar Pradesh have been hit by the air waves of a community radio station in many ways. As radio jockeys and as listeners, they feel highly empowered, says Anjali Singh

Prabhpreet Khinda, an Indian engineer, arrived in Ghana in 2009 looking for opportunities. The 38-year-old from Punjab is a successful farmer today and owns a 2200-hectare farm at Dzigbe

‘The Happiness Quotient’ tells us how to lead a ‘significant life’. Its author, Rekha Shetty, tells Madhusree Chatterjee what the latest corporate buzz is on ushering happiness in workplace

Mohammed Dilawar, who’s been working to save the sparrows, has found mention in the Limca Book of Records. His organisation’s distribution of 52000 bird feeders is a Guinness world record.

More than 2,000 villages in Madhya Pradesh have earned the sobriquet ‘Nirmal Grams’ or clean villages. Arun Anand checks out how the villages managed to achieve such a high level of hygiene 

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s autobiography is nearing completion and it’s been tiled ‘Twenty years in a decade.’ According to the actor, "It's a fun book and is about positivity and hope.”