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Instant tip ; The fortnight's burning question. Is the inflationary trend in the Indian economy beginning to reverse?
Oct 05, 2008; Manu Kaushik ... The fortnight's burning question. Is the inflationary trend inthe Indian economy beginning to reverse? No. Vivek Moorthy, Professor, IIM Bangalore Inflation is likelyto remain in double digits in the coming months and can even gohigher. Energy sector trends, one of the main drivers ...
6 Things you can buy for the price of an iPhone ; Apple's iPhone, priced at Rs 31,000, may make you swagger, but as BT discovered, you could look smarter, listen to music, watch movies on a TV, shoot pictures and print them out for the same price. T.V.
Oct 05, 2008; T.V. Mahalingam ... Apple's iPhone, priced at Rs 31,000, may make you swagger, but asBT discovered, you could look smarter, listen to music, watch movieson a TV, shoot pictures and print them out for the same price. T.V.Sony Ericsson W200i Price: Rs 4,099 Store music, shoot, access theNet.Nikon D/C Coolpix ...
IPTV: Coming soon near you ; BSNL will roll out its IPTV (internet protocol television) across 20 cities initially and expand this service to 100 cities by December this year
Oct 05, 2008; Rahul Sachitanand ... What is it? BSNL will roll out its IPTV (internet protocoltelevision) across 20 cities initially and expand this service to100 cities by December this year. How is IPTV different? It is more interactive than competingoptions. For example, viewers can ...
Wanna play God? play spore ; It is the year's most anticipated video game on the PC (and mobile).
Oct 05, 2008; Kushan Mitra ... What is it? It is the year's most anticipated video game on thePC (and mobile). But why? It was created by Will Wright, the guy who created TheSims, the world's largest selling video game title. And what is it? Like The Sims, Spore is also what critics call a God game ...
Economy watch ; The government plans to add 78,577 MW of capacity during the 11th Five-Year Plan but coal shortages and rising input costs will make the target difficult to achieve.
Oct 05, 2008; Manu Kaushik ... Power generation capacityStatus: 145.6 gigawatts (GW) tillJuly30, 2008.Impact: The government plans to add 78,577 MW of capacityduring the 11th Five-Year Plan but coal shortages and rising inputcosts will make the target difficult to achieve. Gilt yields Status: 8.35 per ...
Market reforms on the anvil ; Stock market regulator securities and exchange Board of India (SEBI) is pushing ahead with market reforms. It is now keen to make the rights issue process simpler.
Oct 05, 2008; Rishi Joshi ... Stock market regulator securities and exchange Board of India(SEBI) is pushing ahead with market reforms. It is now keen to makethe rights issue process simpler. The matter will now be debated atthe regulator's Primary Market Advisory Committee. SEBI wants tocondense the rights issue ...
Talebearer ; The government finally extended the ban on futures trading in four commodities soya oil, potato, rubber and chana.
Oct 05, 2008; Rishi Joshi ... Future tense? The government finally extended the ban on futurestrading in four commodities soya oil, potato, rubber and chana.Privately, mandarins admit the decision was taken to avoid givingthe Opposition an opportunity to target the government in the run-up to elections. Says a senior ...
D. Subbarao, Governor, Reserve Bank of India ; Duvvuri Subbarao was appointed the 22nd governor of the Reserve Bank of India on September 1, 2008, and took charge of Mint Street from Y.V. Reddy, when his term ended on September 5. Subbarao, 59, an IAS officer, topped the batch of 1972 and belongs to the Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Oct 05, 2008; Anand Adhikari ... Duvvuri Subbarao was appointed the 22nd governor of the ReserveBank of India on September 1, 2008, and took charge of Mint Streetfrom Y.V. Reddy, when his term ended on September 5. Subbarao, 59,an IAS officer, topped the batch of 1972 and belongs to the AndhraPradesh cadre. He was ...
Numbers of note
Oct 05, 2008 ... Rs 800 crore: The amount Japan's Yamaha Motor has committed toinvest in India to set up a motorcycle manufacturing facility.Rs2,500 crore: Projected size of the Indian online advertising pie by2011, compared to Rs 270 crore now. 438,000: The number of Vaiolaptops recalled by Japan's Sony ...
To be precise ; We can't teach management in our classrooms and then be incapable of running a self-sufficient institution ourselves
Oct 05, 2008 ... Samir Kumar Barua, Director, IIM Ahmedabad, in Mint We can't teach management in our classrooms and then be incapableof running a self-sufficient institution ourselves Samir KumarBarua, Director, IIM Ahmedabad, in Mint We have to give people a reason to come back to colas ....
Noted ; To steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, the Lifetime Achievement Award for embodying and exemplifying the ideals of free enterprise and entrepreneurial capitalism, by American business magazine Forbes.
Oct 05, 2008 ... Conferred: To steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, the LifetimeAchievement Award for embodying and exemplifying the ideals of freeenterprise and entrepreneurial capitalism, by American businessmagazine Forbes. Ranked: India, at #31, on the World EconomicForum's first Financial Development ...
IT spending to hit $110 BN in 2012 ; End-user spending in information technology in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.8 per cent and generate $110 billion (Rs 4.73 lakh crore) revenues in 2012.
Oct 05, 2008; K.R. Balasubramanyam ... End-user spending in information technology in India is expectedto grow at a CAGR of 14.8 per cent and generate $110 billion (Rs4.73 lakh crore) revenues in 2012. According to Gartner, IT end-user spending has increased as expected in the 2008 calendar year to$64.7 billion (Rs 2.78 lakh ...
Getting a makeover ; The Vedanta group restructures to boost operating efficiencies. The exercise is an attempt to reduce cross holdings and pare costs.
Oct 05, 2008; Virendra Verma ... The Vedanta group is now gearing up for a complete overhaul ofits corporate structure. The exercise is an attempt to reduce crossholdings and pare costs. The $7-billion group, controlled by theLondon-based tycoon, Anil Agarwal, is consolidating its mining andmetal businesses under three ...
IT's testing the new waters ; Demand for software testing professional is soaring.
Oct 05, 2008; Saumya Bhattacharya ... The apparent downturn in the IT sector has left one segmentuntouched: software testing services. According to industryestimates, testing services will grow at more than 50 per cent perannum at present and also, over the next couple of years. This rapidgrowth has translated into a rise in ...
No rush for retail ; Large retail chains have not been able to make a dent on the dominance of traditional buyers at the Oddanchatram wholesale vegetable market, N. Madhavan finds out.
Oct 05, 2008; N. Madhavan ... September 5, 2008Oddanchatram (Tamil Nadu) Incessant overnight rains have left the ground slushy at theOddanchatram Gandhi Vegetable Market, located on the picturesquefoothills of the Western Ghats, some 93 km from Madurai in southernTamil Nadu. It is 9 a.m. and the market, ...
Happy Birthday Google ; It seems remarkable to think that Google is only 10 years old, because the web search giant seems to have been around forever. But in a decade, Google has shaped the way we spend time online from the way we search, use email (GMail) and now, even the way we collaborate with documents thanks to Google Docs.
Oct 05, 2008; Kushan Mitra ... It seems remarkable to think that Google is only 10 years old,because the web search giant seems to have been around forever. Butin a decade, Google has shaped the way we spend time online from theway we search, use email (GMail) and now, even the way wecollaborate with documents thanks ...
Boost your bench press ; The bench press may be the most basic of gym exercises, yet, few guys achieve the results they really want. Those who manage to lift heavy, accumulate mass, but often lack the definition on the chest that makes this Vanity Muscle #3 (after abs and biceps) truly one to admire.
Oct 05, 2008; Jamal Shaikh ... Way back in 2001, I used to work out at a suburban Mumbai gymwith a media planner-turned-model, who was also an aspiring actor.He went by the name of John Abraham, and despite having animpressive build even then, his physique wasn't half as impressiveas it is in trailers of his latest ...
Better health through technology ; When IT comes to healthcare, the role of technology is to provide greater control over your health by using available information for your overall benefit. Check out some of today's hi-tech medical procedures.
Oct 05, 2008; Manu Kaushik ... When IT comes to healthcare, the role of technology is to providegreater control over your health by using available information foryour overall benefit. Check out some of today's hi-tech medicalprocedures. DiagnosticsECG: An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a test that checkshow your ...