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It was interesting to hear Ravi Kant of Tata Motors suggesting that ‘India should focus on producing cheap, efficient and small electric cars over the next five years’ at Pan-IIT Global Conference 2008. Why didn’t Tata Motors, the only Indian … Continue reading →

font color=”#FF0000″ size=”3″>Tata set to clinch Jaguar-Land Rover deal: Indian conglomerate Ta><tas are the top choice for buying the US auto giant Ford’s iconic British brands Jaguar and Land Rover, according to a media report here. L&T in power business: … Continue reading →

Economist in its latest edition has an unusual story of IRFAN ALAM, a 27-year-old from Begusarai in Bihar and his typically Indian thirsts of entrepreneurship exhibited through his company SammaaN Foundation that he established in Patna in 2007. Irfan Alam, … Continue reading →

A HOMAGE TOO Teji Bachchan, wife of the late Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, died yesterday (Friday) at the age of 93. I was a fan of Haribans Rai Bachchan, the famous popular … Continue reading →

On occasion of Pan-IIT meet in Chennai, many have talked and written about IITs and IITians that is really informative. IIT-Madras has, for example, recruited over 200 faculty of whom at least a third did their bachelor’s in one of … Continue reading →

Any nation or an enterprise is judged by its innovativeness on long run. India’s engineering talent and IT power has created a place in global technological fraternity. However, innovations are being taken up as priority in almost all sectors, and … Continue reading →

As reported in Times of India, Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons announced to set up his own anti-terror mechanism: “We will now look at anti-terrorism or protection of our assets and our people ourselves and we will try to … Continue reading →

Vir Shanghvi in his Sunday column in Hindustan Times talks of the public resentment touching the media too. “In the case of the Bombay attacks, it began as rage against politicians, was transformed into hatred of Pakistan and has now … Continue reading →

I keep on getting the Google News Alert for on R&D in India. The latest has a news item ‘India to be global innovation hub‘. As per a study conducted by global research and analytics firm Evalueserve, titled ‘R&D Ecosystem … Continue reading →

A report in media on the IITians makes me happy and I feel like sharing the data. I did never try to be an entrepreneur. Years ago, I came across Chidanand Rajghatta’s The Horse That Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus … Continue reading →