Ground Reality

Unfazed by her high profile celebrity status in the glamourous world of cosmetics, the staple diet of iconic Shahnaz Husain is simple dal, roti, salad and yoghurt but icing on the cake is daily intake of never dying spirit of ‘Survival’.   It is that indomitable spirit which had kept her afloat during the most trying circumstances of life when she was in an incarnation of a journalist writing regularly for Iran Tribune to eke out bread. The driving force was undiluted zeal to raise her family, but regular typing for hours at a stretch on typewriters had left her fingers scrappy and tips numbed. In a detailed interview to Neeraj Bajpai , Shahnaz Husain, Founder, Chairperson and Managing Director of Shahnaz Husain Group of Companies, shares experiences and journey of her life. Excerpts: Please tell us some interesting anecdotes of life which gave lifetime lessons? I decided to work for the prized beauty training institutions of the West to learn cosmetic chemistry...

As Unemployment is   assuming alarming proportions in India, Eminent Academician Prof. PB Sharma,President of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has asserted that new education policy, being framed now, should be targeted to boost employability of professional education, from currently 15-20 % to 120% on one hand and ensuring relevance of research and innovations to the needs of the society and industry at home on the other. He says it should also meet the regional and global aspirations, adding “We need to align India's Education Policy to National Development to pay attention to creating “Advantage India” from the efforts we invest in education and research and make education a powerful vehicle of societal transformation”.     Unfortunately, the goal of successive education policies in the past revolved around increasing access in the name of increased Gross Enrolment Ratio, GER, in higher education and inclusive education being grossly misundersto...

A two day international meet on innovations in the medical care arena was held in the National capital this week, opening new vistas in diagnostic discipline, backbone of holistic and quick treatment.  Experts and companies held brainstorming sessions discussing threadbare needs of patients in India where rural swathes still pine for healthcare at an affordable cost. Experts say although Rural India accounts for about 70 per cent of the population, it has less than one third of the country’s hospitals, doctors, beds etc.           The meet -“InnoHEALTH 2017” was organized on September 18 and 19 2017. It is the annual feature and it was the second in the series.Third meet will be held in October next here.  “With the immense response this year we are pleased to announce the dates for InnoHEALTH 2018, 5 th  – 6 th  October 2018, hoping to come back next year keeping the shared goals in healthcare with on...