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Will English Empower?

Posted on January 18, 2007 by indra

Sam Pitroda has made some startling suggestions in National Knowledge commission report to the Prime Minister. One important one is regarding teaching of English as a compulsory subject along with regional language / mother tongue from Class I across the … Continue reading →

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What A Shame!

Posted on January 17, 2007 by indra

When the cabinet ministers of Tamil Nadu belonging to all political parties are busy in bringing in all sorts of projects to their states, the great ministers in UPA government at the centre from Bihar are fighting with the Chief … Continue reading →

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China Presents New Opportunity for Indian Manufacturing Sector

Posted on January 16, 2007 by indra

The Economist recently published a report, The problem with Made in China‘, that details why the manufactures are switching over to a strategy of ‘China plus’ in Asia. India may be candidate of that China plus destination. But it will … Continue reading →

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Recent Alliances with Global Automobile Majors

Posted on January 15, 2007 by indra

For all practical purposes, Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra are the only two Indian companies in automobile manufacturing, particularly in passenger cars and SUVs. And if the two enterprises, wish to remain the major players in domestic market or … Continue reading →

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Makara Sakaranti

Posted on January 14, 2007 by indra

Makara Sakaranti falls on Sunday this year. The date is always January 14, as it is September 17 for Viswa Karma Puja. We have been celebrating the day in a particular manner for many years. After taking bath early in … Continue reading →

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Bihar Global Meet

Posted on January 14, 2007 by indra

Patna, the state capital of Bihar, must be busy in the arrangement of the global meet (Barat, as friend of mine told me on when I referred to the show) being held in Patna between January 19 and 21. It’s … Continue reading →

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Automobile Sector And India- biased Design Changes

Posted on January 13, 2007 by indra

Since the early days of Indian automobile industry, the local design engineers had been making the desired changes in the product of the foreign collaborators. One very obvious desired change used to be the clearance from the road to take … Continue reading →

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India Matters Today

Posted on January 12, 2007 by indra

Recent media overtures about India as an important economic power have become a daily affair. Every day some exciting news or report keeps on appearing somewhere or the other in media that confirms the inference such as India has arrived … Continue reading →

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Companies That Can Light India

Posted on January 11, 2007 by indra

Power can single-handedly black out ‘India Shining’. However, the two public sector companies in power generation business along with BHEL, the third one manufacturing the power equipment are keeping the hope, that one day very soon India can very well … Continue reading →

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Visions for India And NRIs

Posted on January 10, 2007 by indra

Management guru C K Prahalad’s vision for India of 2025 is one with  100 per cent literacy  200 million graduates and 400 million trained technicians  25 Indian firms in Fortune 500  10 per cent of the top universities of the … Continue reading →

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