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The It Landscape
Global MNC IT giants, with their acknowledged global capabilities and project skills, have been growing from strength to strength. The Indian IT companies, which rode the off shore wave, are beginning to acknowledge the greater potential of the domestic market. Some key alliances have been formed between the MNC corps and the bigger Indian IT companies and some niche soft ware companies in order to offer a bouquet of services to clients. Further, all the global IT majors have earmarked large-scale investments to buffer their off shore delivery centers, boost R&D activities and spur innovation in the past one year.
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Downtown deposits deluge
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Scheduled commercial banks have mopped up a staggering Rs.12,950 billion from Tier I and Tier II cities during the Q3 of 2006-07. These cities contributed a heft y 54.7% of the total mobilisation deposits of Rs.23, 670 billion. High income base due to the emergence of new industries in these towns has led to this rise. This development seems to be quite encouraging for the Indian banking sector, which is amidst a severe liquidity crunch.
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On war front basis, an initiative named ‘Project Insight' was the first immediate step taken by the company. The project aimed at helping them understand why people were leaving the organisation. Although their research brought up reasons that were no different from what others in the industry were facing, Bausch & Lomb was quick to realise that this attrition was not only a result of certain micro issues and flaws within the company, but it was also a ripple effect of the macro change in the industry as a whole. The last five to seven years had seen an increase in the number of jobs in the country, as well as a sense of ‘high employability' by people, which led to the fast paced movement of manpower across industries and organisations. Over the years, Bausch & Lomb has now re-calibrated its hiring strategy in order to focus on recruits desirous of creating a career in healthcare or the medical devices industry. This is so because Bausch & Lomb products require a lot more than mere selling skills to do a great job; it requires the competencies of consultative selling and demand generation and the right passion for the industry, to stick on. Its employees associate themselves with an enormous pride of providing the best products and services to its customers.
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Dubai is taking a giant leap towards the future, yet it has its traditions intact...
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It is mid-April and the heat is sweltering. Unperturbed, many Anglo-Saxons are loitering on the beach that's scattered with numerous joints of famous Western food chains. Two Anglo-Saxon women, dressed in swim-suits that reveal more than they hide, are stretched on the beach gulping the latest variant of ‘Diet Coke'. Some boys, dressed in the best of Adidas and Nike, are playing beach volleyball. It is still early morning but the hyper malls nearby are already bustling with activity, as they are thronged by people from close to 200 nationalities. Take a look inside and every possible posh-brand you can think of is right there - Gautier, Mont Blanc, Versace and UCB. An eagle-eye-view gives an impression of a miniature Las Vegas. And this is just a small snapshot of the magnificent city of Dubai.
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Just before the capital cloudburst...
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But structural defaults still cripple the industry at its foundation. The Indian microfinance sector today is ailed by constricted per-capita loan disbursement as well as customised design and delivery of products; more so that currently these don't suit the needs of the poor and needy. As Aarti Kapoor from the microfinance department of Access Development Services, one of the top microfinance firms, says, "Challenges include ensuring that women are targetted for microfinance schemes, contributing to gender equality; deepening poverty reach to the poorest and the most disadvantaged; regulation of the sector and more transparency and encouraging commercial banks to provide microfinance." Microfinance surely has to play a broader role in terms of fostering financial inclusion, and especially with the objective of reducing poverty levels. Well, if Bangladesh can do it, why can't we?
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Freeing music labels of restrictive DRM will indeed benefit one and all
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Of course, this freedom comes for $1.29, up from 99 cents earlier. Apple also has a one-click update for users to update their entire EMI-related music library for 30 cents per song. "We expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM free versions by the end of this year," exclaims Apple's CEO Steve Jobs.
Not so long ago, Microsoft had lambasted Apple's CEO for suggesting such an idea. Now, Microsoft is also now in queue talking to EMI and other record labels to get them to sell similar DRM free music online. The interesting thing is that the consumer does benefit, though higher pricing may peeve him. Higher quality tracks mean more storage space required, so higher capacity iPods or music players will be demanded. Is that bad? Well considering that DRM free music means other manufacturers can compete without being smothered by the iTunes-iPod sort of scenarios, the prices of players will indeed come down! So now everyone wins. Just wonder how much longer it takes movie businesses to understand the benefits!
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Sikhism promotes Humanitarianism
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In my opinion, one of the best practices of Sikhism is the concept of langar, where a common meal is served to anyone who enters the gurudwara. Be it night or day, the doors of a gurudwara are open to anyone who needs shelter and a meal. Sikhism promotes Humanitarianism above all else. Another wonderful practice is called Sewa or service. Anyone from any walk of life and faith can walk into a gurudwara and off er service; cooking the langar, serving langar, cleaning the gurudwara or ‘shoe service'. As a child, I looked forward to my Sunday gurudwara visits during my summer holidays with my grandparents. Though I had to wake up rather early, it was all worth it, not just from the spiritual stand point but from a gastronomic point of view too.
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FDI in Indian real estate, which stood at $600 million in 2006, is expected to sky rocket to a mammoth $16 billion by 2012...
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And in line with this buoyancy, FDI in Indian real estate, which stood at $600 million in 2006, is expected to sky rocket to $16 billion by 2012, hardly signs of a market that has moved past its prime. Leading this bandwagon is Emaar MGF (JV between Emaar Properties PJSC Dubai and Indian developer MGF Development Limited), which has committed an unprecedented sum of $1 billion in FDI for real estate projects across the length and breadth of India. Part of the project is a plan to set up 100 Formula 1 budget hotels across India in a tie up with Accor. States Emaar Properties Chairman Mohamed Ali Alabbar on the move, "Alongside master-planned residential communities & special economic zones, we regard the hospitality sector as integral in our growth strategy for India."
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Electric cars failed in the past. Hybrids? Well, not a big hit. Is the future different?
123 Systems - a new company in Massachusetts - says it has created a powerful, safe, long-lived battery. If the cells fulfill the ambitions of its maker, their softer sound will be the grand nonpolluting future of automobiles.
To date, all-electric vehicles have failed because their batteries were inadequate. GM's futuristic EV1 car of the late 1990s was doted upon by environmentally conscious drivers who admired its innovative engineering, but because the car used large, primitive nickel metal hydride batteries, its range was limited, its acceleration degraded as the batteries weakened with age, and its two-seat layout was not very comfortable for big people.
"The problem came down to usability," said Nick Zelenski, GM's chief vehicle engineer. "You had to plan your life around when you were going to charge the EV1." GM built only 1,117 of the experimental cars because it believed that American drivers would not buy such an affront. Now, GM is planning two plugin hybrid vehicles. Like the Toyota Prius and other available hybrids, the GM models will supplement their electric motors with internal combustion engines. What's diff erent is that most of the power for commuting daily will come from battery packs that can be recharged from ordinary household sockets. The new models are expected to have a range of at least 65 km without using their gas engines. While that is less than the range of the all-electric EV1, the hybrid nature of the new models will give them far greater total range.
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Of interesting times & dis'interest'ing hikes
It's the fifth time since May 2006 that the nation's largest private bank, ICICI Bank has increased its home loan lending rate. The 1% increase this time, comes in the wake of RBI increasing the lending rate to banks (which is increase in CRR by 50 basis points to 6.50% & repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%). Consequently, the minimum interest rate for home loans will now be 12% (up from 8.5% in May 2006) and the EMI will up by Rs.60 for a loan of Rs.1,00,000 for 15 years. On the other hand, HDFC has increased its lending rate by 50-75 basis points and other major banks are likely to follow suit.
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