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Its been long time since I have seen an incisive article like this. No faff, but just a fresh look at things on hand, wonder why it did not make it to the front pages. Another scam in the making? Will have to wait for a change in the Centre to know that. -------------------------------- Arati R Jerath Saturday, November 01, 2008  23:58 IST The flare-up between the DMK and the

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  Shahid Hashmi September 06, 2008 There was despair everywhere. “We seem to be fighting the war against terror alone, and paying the price,” said a cricket official. Captain Shoaib Malik agreed. “We are facing a cricket poverty.” Their feelings summed up the mood in Pakistan after the Champions Trophy was postponed over fears of safety and security. You have to

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Is it possible that Europeans - famed for their endless vacations - work as much as we do? By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large Last Updated: August 5, 2008: 9:23 AM EDT (Fortune Magazine) -- Europeans rarely feel more superior to us Americans than at this time of year, and you can't blame them. They're taking their umpteen-week vacations, perhaps enjoying state-funded massages in Baden-Baden

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People killed:US war on Iraq: 85,966 – 93,778 (and counting)US war on Afghanistan: 50,000+ (no clear number though)WTC Attack: 2974 + 19 hijackersTerrorism in India: 70000 (in 2001, and still counting)-------------------------------------Vietnam war: 1,100,000World War I: 40,000,000World War II: 70,000,000Mao’s land policies: 800,000Numbers that make you ponder a lot. A hopefully the world

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Building the world's first electric supercar was never going to be easy - even without the hubris, infighting, and mismanagement that nearly sent Tesla spinning off the road. By Michael V. Copeland, senior writerLast Updated: July 11, 2008: 1:16 PM EDT(Fortune Magazine) -- For Martin Eberhard, there were many obstacles on the path to building the ultimate electric sports car. There was the

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Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Having won over the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Manmohan Singh government can push ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal, and hope to complete its full five-year term. If the government survives the trust vote, Congressmen will be delighted, since they are terrified of an early election, given that inflation is running at 12%. Their delight will be tempered by the

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Vladimir RadyuhinRussian scientists deny that the Kyoto Protocol reflects a consensus view of the world scientific community.As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming.Russian critics of the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for cuts in CO2 emissions,

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Jul 3rd 2008 From The Economist print edition Sam Manekshaw, soldier, died on June 27th, aged 94 EPA HIS most famous remark was not, strictly speaking, true. On the eve of the war with Pakistan in December 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh, India’s prime minister, Indira Gandhi, asked her army chief, Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, if he was ready for the fight. He

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This piece from the Official Google Blog, shows the obsessiveness at Google to keep their website plain, light and simple. What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28... 7/03/2008 01:36:00 PM Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just

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BusinessWeek Economics Editor Peter Coy responds to columnist Ed Wallace and his attack on oil traders The energy options pit on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images by Peter Coy Dear Ed, You've written some great columns for BusinessWeek.com about oil prices and speculation (BusinessWeek.com, 6/27/08), and you've gotten barrels of

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The McKinsey Quarterly Affordable care, preventive medicine, and healthy behavior must be the pillars of India’s health care reform. Rajat Gupta January 2008 Over the past four years of historic economic growth, leaders in India have come to realize that to emerge as a global economic superpower, the country must invest in its social fabric—in particular, education and health care. These

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Now its on front page. The foreign policy that India had in the past decade has only been how to get a seat in the security council. Representing more than 1/6 of humanity, largest democracy and oldest civilization, it was odd to see India being left out of the big bodies that "manage" the world order. But now along with the old titles it also has the most important title of economic superpower

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This editorial from today's ET brings a fresh look at the nuclear deal. Though I do not agree with the author's view that the feeling in the market is that nuclear deal will reduce oil bill, I surely do agree with the author's opinion on how the nuclear power might also become costly affair like oil given limited uranium resources. But what the author misses is the bigger psychological benefit of

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This story reads like a corporate coup.The writer says it is more like the (in)famous 'barbarians at the gate'. But I relate it to more of a coup attempt from Pakistan or Congo. It has everything in it - double agent, ambition, greedy financiers, innocent and ignorant management.A every detailed and commendable article. What amazes me is the speed at which the article has come out with so many

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The venerable Wall Street firm once looked like it would escape the worst of the credit crisis. Now there's talk of a Bear Stearns-like collapse - or a sale. By Allan Sloan and Roddy Boyd Last Updated: July 2, 2008: 8:45 PM EDTarticle linkNEW YORK (Fortune) -- To understand what went wrong at Lehman Brothers, leave the canyons of Wall Street and head to the flatlands of

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WASHINGTON: Tired of high gasoline prices and rising foods costs? Well, here’s a solution. Let’s shoot the speculators. A chorus of politicians, including John McCain and Barack Obama, blames these financial slimeballs for piling into commodities markets and pushing prices to artificial and unconscionable levels. Gosh, if only it were that simple. Speculator-bashing is another exercise in

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Microsoft's Surface and other touch-sensitive products can simplify complicated interactions, but are software makers and consumers game?by Aaron RicadelaIt's the computer that almost wasn't. Microsoft's Surface—a touch-sensitive table that could redefine the way people interact with machines—got its start in company research labs five years ago, though backers considered putting the project on

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From ancient times, Indian rulers have always blamed inflation on the perfidious bania. That is happening globally today. Politicians everywhere are blaming speculators for high inflation.Actually, inflation occurs when too much money chases too few goods. Today, no great shortfall in goods is evident. World oil production is rising, though slowly. Mineral and metal production is up. The FAO

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ET: Pakistani actress Zeba Bakhtiyar, who played the title role in the film Heena, says her countrymen feel offended when Bollywood potboilers depict Muslims as villains."Pakistanis love to watch Bollywood films. But they feel awful and offended as all the villains portrayed in them are Muslims. I always feel that religion is one's private affair and a way of life," the actress said.Speaking

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Some of the comments picked in the media on the nuclear deal:- CPM spokesperson Pandhe: “as Muslims were opposed to the nuclear deal and since the Samajwadi Party enjoyed the community's support in Uttar Pradesh, it should refrain from backing the deal.”- The deal will not gain much political as there will not be much publicity feel members of the Congress.- The deal should go through to save the

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By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS Published: June 15, 2008AT a recent cricket match here, Mukesh D. Ambani sat in his private box quietly watching the team he owns, the Mumbai Indians. He seemed oblivious to the others around him: his son cheering wildly, his wife draped in diamond jewelry and a smattering of guests anxiously awaiting the briefest opportunity to speak with him.A minor bureaucrat stood a

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Painful though it is, this oil shock will eventually spur huge change. Beware the hunt for scapegoats IN THE early 1970s a fourfold rise in the price of oil almost brought the world to a standstill. The shock of the Arab embargo left a deep mark in many countries: America subjected its cars to fuel-efficiency standards, France embraced nuclear power—though sadly shoene rukku, or “

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Does media set the societal trends or is media a reflection of the trend? This chicken-n-egg question quite often pops among the debaters. This question came to my mind in the following case. The idiot box was airing an ad of Complan. A little boy drinks the drink, wins all competitions, mom happy; boy happy. I add other ads with kids – Boost with teenage boys zipping on BMX bikes, Kellogg

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MUMBAI: A year after the Sepoy Mutiny, British bank Standard Chartered set up its first Indian branch in Calcutta in 1858 to cash in on the flourishing trades in rice, jute and indigo. Today, 150 years later, the bank is looking to ride the Indian stock market.The emerging market biggie, also the foreign bank with the biggest presence in India, is looking to list itself on Indian stock

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The most powerful person on this planet seems to have got it wrong once again. By assigning the cause of global food price crisis to India, George Bush has again missed the point. The problem, though, is real. Average food prices have risen 45 percent in the past nine months. And just as rising rice prices fueled rice riots and toppled the Japanese government in 1918, today's price

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The best argument for using market driven rates is the utter disrespect that Indian consumers have in splurging on oil in the past few years in spite of raising oil prices around the world. Car and bike sales have increased tremendously for the consumers are not feeling the pinch of the oil price. We hear news of US consumers switching to compact cars, dumping SUVs and hitching to public

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What I'm bothered about this article is the tinge of surrenderness to China. The Economist is concealing a fear that China might act against the world than itself. Are you worried that political changes in China would be bad to the world? Are you worried about the power the Politburo can wield over the Chinese and World affairs?Whatever the fear might be, any observer of Indian foreign policy

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Each page of this Urdu newspaper is handwritten by 'katibs' Chennai: At the office of 'The Musalman', the oldest Urdu daily in the country, and possibly the only handwritten newspaper in the world, no one has ever quit. They work, says Rahman Husseini, the chief katib or copywriter of the paper, till they pass on. Rahman joined the Urdu daily more than 20 years ago as an accountant, learnt

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Islamabad may be the national capital of Pakistan, but the country’s real centre of power - the General Headquarters (GHQ) - is just half an hour’s drive away, in the garrison town of Rawalpindi. This is a completely khaki town, with neatly polished staff cars zipping up and down its wide roads, heavily armed guards standing like statues at the gates of British-era military buildings and

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By Tony Barber in Brussels Published: March 4 2008 11:19 | Last updated: March 4 2008 11:19 function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").length> 0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length>= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName(

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This may well ring the death knell for private schools across the country. The National Knowledge Commission (NKC), a body of high-profile experts and intellectuals who have the government's and PM's ear, has called for regulation of admission and fees in the thousands of private institutions, which form about 15% of the total schools in India. The NKC recommendations call for an urgent look

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High time that India responded to the dangers being posed by China on its Himalayan Borders. An army unit in itself will not be sufficient unless it is backed with the right infrastructure and the political will to tell China to mind their business. Lately, India's responses to Chinese incursions in North-Western and North-Eastern fronts have been silence to a timid cry at Beijing (which the

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Steve Ballmer's $45 billion marriage proposal is fraught with risk. But Microsoft can't let Google go on unchecked <!--/DECK--> by Jay Greene Steve Brodner <!--STORY--> With the hefty premium included in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) looks well on its way to persuading shareholders in the Internet company to support its unsolicited offer. Yahoo employees,

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Did the American intelligence report let out Iran way too easily. No. After the miscalculations in Iraq was very important for America and UN to work on concrete evidences (though elusive in world affairs) than on political considerations. In last one year, America's push for tougher measures against Iran was taking the shape of another politically motivated unwanted war. Now with this

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FT Global MBA Rankings: ISB ranked 20th globallyhttp://rankings.ft.com/global-mba-rankingsOK agreed. This is not an opinion. Nor a commentary. But as an Indian (as much as an ISBian), I'm proud to know that Indian School of Business is ranked 20th in the latest FT Global MBA Rankings much ahead of the greats like Kellogg and UCLA.This could probably be the best for new school. Just six years old

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one more on the tour gone sourPrem Panicker, January 08, 2008 11:13 IST Last Updated: January 08, 2008 11:59 IST Here we go again - no sooner does India protest some gross inequity, than some bloke (and in such cases, a couple of English journalists and Robert Craddock from Australia are the usual suspects) will harangue the world about how India should not be allowed to control cricket.

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Today of course the objective of Beijing to deploy SWF is purely economic - investment in China and acquire strategic resources outside China for the purpose of China. (and at the same time earn better returns on the $1500bn of reserves. But the worry of others (not just west), and a justified concern, is that few years down the line nothing stops Beijing in using these funds for political arm

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The same frustrations are running thru my mind....how the hell can the au-sissies call Indian team racist. 'm sure nobody in the team had much idea about the context of racism here as the fight between aborigines and whites are know only in Australia and the rest of the world gives a damn about it. So the entire issue of racist chants against Symonds in India (buh who even bothered to check that

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Mumbai might not be making waves in the world of finance; but Global Indian's quite seem to be. After Rana Talwar at helm of StanC, Pandit's easy takeover at banking giant Citi, this will surely be the icing on the cake....Indian taking over Wizard of Omaha!!? Lets keep our fingers crossed.New York: Ajit Jain, named by investors as a possible successor to investment guru Warren Buffett, said the

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What happens when you do not compensation is not backed by performance measures WASHINGTON: More than five billion dollars in US aid to Pakistan has often never reached the military units it was intended for to fight Al-Qaida and the Taliban, and was instead diverted to other programmes, the New York Times reported on Monday. Much of the money meant to reimburse frontline Pakistani

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Will India be the next tax haven? Unlikely, but interestingIndia’s economic growth and booming capital markets have generated unprecedented wealth for Indian promoters. Suddenly, India has billionaires coming out of its ears, more than Japan by one count. Yet, India’s entrepreneurs are lucky: they can pass most of their wealth to their children without too much hindrance. Unlike many advanced

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leave the economists behind; its the populist who decides the numbers....I was badly looking for someone to come out with some good analysis on this and who else other Aiyar would!-----------------9 Dec, 2007, 0230 hrs IST,Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, TNNHundreds of columns have been written on the exchange rate policy of the Reserve Bank of India, and its decision to let

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An old menace has returned, but in very different formsafter a long time ...an unbiased of religion and conflicts EARLIER this year Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to his country's parliament, posed two questions: “Who are our enemies?” and “Why do they hate us?” He described an axis of evil, with Iran's enemies being “all the wicked men of the world, whether abroad or at home”.

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twist twistA $20 billion claim charges the bank helped the firm manufacture financial statements. Bethany McLean investigates.By Bethany McLean, Fortune editor-at-large(Fortune Magazine) -- "When Enron blows up, will it be worse than Long-Term Capital?" So wrote one Citigroup banker to another in April 2001, some seven months before Enron's bankruptcy. That e-mail is, of course, a vivid reminder

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unpegging from the dollar seems to be the flavour of the decade for monetary policy makers; after emerging economies its is time for the Gulf.The Middle East's oil exporters should end their currencies' peg to the dollar. IN THE past week Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has damned it as a “worthless piece of paper” and China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has moaned that it is causing his country

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The market has said what it thinks of Northern Rock. The British government should listenGetty Images EVERY banker knows John Paul Getty's dictum: “If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100m, that's the bank's problem.” What then of a bank that owes taxpayers some £24 billion ($49 billion), with another £18 billion or so of deposits underwritten by the public purse?

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Recession in America looks increasingly likely. Can booming emerging markets save the world economy? IN 1929, days after the stockmarket crash, the Harvard Economic Society reassured its subscribers: “A severe depression is outside the range of probability”. In a survey in March 2001, 95% of American economists said there would not be a recession, even though one had already started. Today, most

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somebody's cooking again!The mortgage lender has quietly changed the way it calculates its bad loans -- and it could be camouflaging steep credit losses, writes Fortune's Peter Eavis.By Peter Eavis, Fortune senior writerNovember 14 2007: 1:03 PM EST(Fortune) -- Investors might want to take a closer look at Fannie Mae's latest earnings report. Lost in the unsurprising news of the mortgage lender's

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India's billion-strong population cuts both ways. Whenever an Indian demographic appears as a numerator, the resulting number looks big. But whenever its population is in the denominator, the number looks small. It is like looking at the same phenomenon from opposite ends of a telescope. As of now, India matters more to technology than technology does to India. TOWARDS the end of the 11th century

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Every year the annual report of Google carries a letter from its founders charting out the Google vision. A good source of data for conspiracy theorists, it makes a good reading on where the information powerhouse is headed (it has moved beyond being just a search giant). Are the founders attempting something like the Buffet Annual letters? Not there yet.IntroductionThere are few things as

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A discussion on the most intriguing topic of today:Oil prices are soaring. Having jumped 40% since August, crude prices hit another historic high on November 6, rising to $96.70 a barrel. The factors sparking the $2.72 rally this time: bad weather in the North Sea that could force production cuts, the dollar’s continued fall, more violence in the Middle East, and fears that US crude supplies are

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A slightly old article that I had read in CFO Asia on innovations in raising money in Asia. How global liquidity is driving financial innovation in AsiaBy Abe De Ramos, Cesar Bacani By any measure, US$500 bn is a huge sum. It’s about two-and-a-half times the amount of trade surplus that Asia has with the rest of the world; 40% the size of the global hedge-fund industry; half the amount of

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A RELIGIOUS fanatic feels persecuted, goes overseas to fight for his God and then returns home to attempt a bloody act of terrorism. Next week as Britons celebrate the capture of Guy Fawkes, a Catholic jihadist, under the Houses of Parliament in 1605, they might reflect how dismally modern the Gunpowder Plot and Europe's wars of religion now seem.Back in the 20th century, most Western politicians

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Even as Mukesh Ambani is reported (probably inaccurately) to have become the richest man in the world, the World Hunger Index of IFPRI has ranked India 94th out of 118 countries, just above Ethiopia and worse than any country in the subcontinent save Bangladesh. The contrast between rich and poor is stark.India's social record has long been bad. It ranks a lowly 126th in the Human Development

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the only thing i enjoy doing is reading newspapers and magazines. Earlier I would use the college library, then began flicking magazines from Managers at office (would wonder why got an allowance for fancy magazines which they never read). Now at ISB, the easiest way for me is to access them over the web. So here I thought will be useful to clip them and keep for my use and also for people who

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