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New York Stock Exchange recently acquired a 5% stake in National Stock Exchange, and has expressed a desire to raise its holding in India’s largest bourse to 20%. Swiss cement major Holcim is looking to expand its presence in the … Continue reading →

While for many causes and on number of issues, the Indian media do a great job and has got the due appreciation too. But on quite a number of counts media appear to be shortchanging Indians. In last few days, … Continue reading →

The term ‘soft power’ was coined by Harvard academic Joseph Nye to describe the many strengths of the United States. Nye attributed America’s world dominance to the fact that the American lifestyle is its most successful export, taking the American … Continue reading →

The views of Deepak Chopra gave me a feel of a management tool, ‘Root Cause Analysis’. Perhaps the tool can be used for all the problems including getting happiness too. Deepak Chopra says: Over the course of my career, thousands … Continue reading →

I was excited by the most prominent top headline on January 24 in ‘Times of India’, ‘India to overtake US by 2050′. Goldman Sachs’ research arm in a global research paper has scaled up estimates of the country’s prospects in … Continue reading →

I passed out from IIT, Kharagpur in mechanical engineering and joined Hindustan Motors in1961. For the first time I realized, with whatever I had learned at the best institute, I couldn’t immediately be of much use in any department of … Continue reading →

Perhaps India is the most fortunate in the world to have a President like Kalam. I wish all the political parties could have consensus to have him continue for the second term too, even though that may not be a … Continue reading →

India is a country of farmers with very small landholding. With the division in the farming family, the land holding is the first major causality. It gets fractionalized. Over 80% of farm families today account for and cultivate about 40% … Continue reading →

It’s Buddha who had cursed Patna, then Patliputra that it would always be in trouble because of fire, flood and feuds between the people. And it goes on till date. I had thought that at least on the dais of … Continue reading →

Agriculture contributes slightly more than 20% of India’s GDP but supports nearly 75% of its population. Cumulative wastage in the agriculture related supply chain is estimated to be about $11 billion, or 9.8% of agriculture component of GDP. India’s milk … Continue reading →