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Oct31
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Brahma Chellaney has caused a lot of sensation in his book, "Asian Juggernaut, Rise of China, India & Japan." Here, he has tried to prove that India is failing to compete with China. DNA India reported:
“The Chinese government pursues commercial interests abroad just the same way the board of a large multinational company hunts for international opportunities," says the book.
Having already lost many bids for oil fields to Chinese companies in Africa and South America, the trend is likely to continue for Indian companies whenever they come in direct competition with them, unless India evolves an "integrated energy policy tied to its foreign policy."
The book is titled 'Asian Juggernaut' but it provides deep insight into the Chinese juggernaut that is likely to dominate future events in Asia.”
Interesting observations! Well, I guess many people in India would feel offended from this book and would try to prove that Brahma Chellaney is wrong. Well, it is a reality that Chinese companies have had decent amount of success in securing oil fields in many parts of the world. Indian companies are yet to put up any serious challenge to the Chinese companies in this regard.
Indian decision makers have to pay serious attention to the challenges that Brahma Chellaney has talked about. India has to become competitive and overtake China.
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Oct31
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Indian economy is growing and middle class is flourishing. Now, the number of people with disposable income is growing. In India, infant mortality is high and millions of women suffer from poverty. So, it is interesting to see how Mothercare...
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Indian farmers and rice exporters are now worried about the tests of genetically engineered (GE) rice in India. India is the largest producer of rice and India is also one of the top exporters. Indian government is thinking about GE...
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This Sunday, India had its exit from ICC Champions Trophy 2006 after it lost to Australia. Cricket is the most popular game in India and sometimes, I feel that it is like a religion. People of no other country in...
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Oct30
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Indian Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister T K A Nair is now in Kuwait. He spoke in a seminar of Indo-Arab Socio-Cultural Organisation about investing in India. He tried to attract the investors by stating about the different facilities...
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Nokia has the upper hand in Indian mobile phone market. Motorola officials are eager to put a serious challenge to Nokia in the Indian market. This development center in Hyderabad will generate nearly 1,000 jobs. Motorola has always got 6...
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Oct29
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Until now, India is a country of villages. Most people in India live in rural areas even today. However, more and more people are coming to urban areas and the cities are contributing more to the Indian economy. DNA India...
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Education is the backbone of any country but it is neglected by most third world countries. Education for all- is a nice slogan but merely a slogan. Many governments do not care to allocate resources to implement this idea. It...
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To the people of South Asia, Oxford and Cambridge are perhaps the most prestigious universities in the world. That is why, it is great to see that Oxford University is going to open a business research center in India. Times...
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India may have its first PIO (People of Indian Origin) university soon. This university will be set up in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). It will have full autonomy. Times of India reported: “The ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA)...
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Azadpur Mandi is the largest vegetable and fruit wholesale market in India. Every day, a lot of money is transacted here. The size of the market is nearly 90 acres. So, you can easily understand that it is a huge...
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Oct28
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Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram feels that it is achievable. He feels that Indian economy has been growing at a healthy rate for the last few years. He thinks that India can have an economic growth of 9%-10% and can...
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Oct26
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Sixt, one of the leading car rental companies of Germany, is looking forward to gain 10% of the total Indian car rental market by 2011. According to the report published in The Financial Express: "We are transferring the know-how...
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Oct25
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This has come from World Bank managing director Graeme Wheeler.He predicted today in a media conference that India would emerge as the third largest economy in the world by as early as 2025. So, Indians will have to wait for...
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It is great to see that Indian economy is shining and more and more people are changing their eating habit and preferring non-vegetarian dishes compared to vegetables. On the other hand, the number of poor people is not decreasing in...
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To the rest of the world, India is mostly known as a vegetarian country. In fact, many people in the west think that most Indians are vegetarians. Well, this is not the case any more. Indian economy is growing and...
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Oct24
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Imagine the world 100 years ago in 1906. That time, England was ruling India and British industries were reaping the benefit of cheap raw materials from India. On the other hand, England had a very strong presence in China. The...
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Oct23
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Diwali is the largest celebration for the Hindus on India. On the other hand, Eid-ul-Fitr is the largest celebration for the Indian Muslims. This year, these two celebrations are taking place almost in the same week. So, many Indians living...
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Indian economy is growing at a very fast pace. This has contributed in the increase in giving credit by banks and financial institutions. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) feels that this can increase the risk of having more bad loans....
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Oct22
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Many American companies have outsourced their jobs to India. A significant number of European and Australian companies have joined this bandwagon too. However, until now, Japanese companies have remained out of India. Well, that is surely going to change in...
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Boston Herald has published an article titled Fast-growing community of immigrants from India become more visible about the rise of Indian community in US. According to the report, there are now nearly 2.3 million people of Indian origin. Well, that...
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Oct21
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India is emerging as one of the top online markets. Yahoo and Microsoft both are present in this market. However, some Indian online portals are also trying to capture the market. Until now, different online portals did not give importance...
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has decided to join the outsourcing bandwagon. BBC is going to outsource accounting and financing services to India with a goal to save £200 million (in the next 10 years). That is a lot of money...
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Oct20
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Many of us have learnt that health is wealth. Well, Indian decision makers seem not to believe in this proverb. “Serve the Essentials”- a report published by Oxfam has clearly shown the poor condition of India when it comes to...
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Oct19
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I am sure that we will hear a lot about broadband triple play technology in the coming days. Divinet, C-DAC and Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Ltd have developed this technology and CSIR has provided financial assistance. Dr Vijay Bhatkar is also...
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Many of us are not aware of the amazing development achieved by Indian companies and Indian workers in the semiconductor industry. 20 years ago, hardly anyone in India knew about this industry but now it has become a multi-billion dollar...
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Oct18
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Wal-Mart is a popular topic in the blogosphere. Emotion can really run very high when a story on the company hits the front page of a social bookmarking site. Well, this news will not create any controversy. Wal-Mart is becoming...
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Oct17
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This may sound like a dream but it is true. America is the country that brain drains countries like India. Now, it is India that is brain draining. American students are now coming to India in search of jobs. Here...
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Oct16
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Polio in India is not going away fully. Eradication of polio seems to be an impossible task for Indian government. So, every year, we can find new cases of polio diseases in India. On the other hand, India is even...
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I have covered in depth the recent controversy that arose with the broadcasting of the documentary The Data Theft Scandal by UK’s Channel 4. If you remember, that time Indian IT leaders tried to prove that it was a conspiracy...
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Oct15
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For the last few days, I have written about the attack of dengue fever in India. Earlier this year, there was the fear of bird flu disease. Still, Indian tourism sector is moving fast. In fact, India earned $5.7 billion...
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Oct14
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Among the foreign companies, IBM realized the value of Indian market in the best way. It invested here heavily, outsourced thousands of jobs and tried to develop its presence in India for the last few years. It is now paying...
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Indian economy is growing. India is trying for a permanent seat at UN Security Council. Some people like to think India as the next emerging superpower. May be India is indeed the next economic giant. However, it is going to...
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India has a population of over 1 billion. Providing food for this huge number of people is becoming a growing concern for the country. India normally does not need to import food grain much and even it exports some agricultural...
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China and India both are the emerging economic giants. Now, the companies of these two countries are trying to spread themselves in the foreign countries. However, the interesting thing is that Chinese companies are coming to India in large number...
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Oct13
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I must say that it is a cool idea- having a serch engine focused on Indian related websites. Guess what! This blog has already got one visitor today after being redirected from Guruji.com search. However, the search engine is still...
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Oct12
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IBN Live has an interesting report about the success of Indians abroad. Aasim Khan has asked an interesting question: Has India arrived on world stage? Aasim Khan mentioned about the success of some of the Indians in the wold...
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I have noticed that many readers search about jobs in Indian companies and come here. Sometimes, they leave a message in the comment section about jobs too. So, if you are looking for a job at Intel, India then you...
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India is often perceived to be the place of outsourcing low paid jobs. However, Indian workers are becoming more skilled and they are doing sophisticated works. Intel is happy with this trend and in the Hindustan Times, I saw a...
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Oct11
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Really, it is very funny. On the one hand, Indian leaders are taking of India becoming a leader in the global opening. On the other hand, bureaucracy is not changing. So, while Indian government is trying desperately to get FTA (Free...
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Frankly, this news does not surprise me at all. Here are some headlines: In India, even Google finds job recruiting tough Google finds huge talent shortage in India Google feels Indian skills pinch Google faces recruitment blues in India ...
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Until now, dengue was recently widespread in north part of India. Now, dengue has become a cause of concern in North India. According a NDTV report, ‘700 cases of dengue have been reported in Kerala’- a south Indian state. ...
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In the rich countries, outsourcing is gradually becoming a political issue. After the broadcast of The Data Theft Scandal, the opponents of outsourcing have now got a deadly weapon- the security issue. Australian companies have started to outsource and the...
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Oct10
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It is big news indeed- a poor country like India has now 83,000 millionaires. Tis item has been covered by many websites across the world. It shows that Indian economy is growing and some people are becoming millionaire. The Hindu...
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Indian Prime Minister wants to ensure more economic reform in India. He is particularly interested about the banking and insurance sector. He expressed this view in an interview with a British newspaper. The Hindu wrote: “Listing financial sector reform and...
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This is very funny. Airfares between Oman and India have been reduced significantly but hardly anyone is interested. Zee News wrote: “Airlines operating from Oman to Indian destinations have drastically slashed fares, but there are few takers since the offer...
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If global Technology companies can reap huge benefit by outsourcing their works to India then why not pharmaceutical companies! Everyone wants to cut cost. Global pharmaceutical industry has at last realized that they could save millions of dollars by outsourcing...
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India and Pakistani leaders are most of the very busy to fight against each other in the media and in the political arena. When they have any time then they try to do something for improving relationship. Since most of...
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Oct 9
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No, I am not talking about General Motors. I am talking about genetically-modified (GM) crops. This is still a very controversial issue in many parts of the world. In India, it is a very emotional issue. Many people are against...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Disney’s initiative to produce high quality programs in Indian language. In fact, Disney has bought an Indian television channel by paying $30.5 million in July of this year. It shows that Disney is...
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UK-India Investment Summit is going to take place tomorrow. The prime ministers of these two countries Tony Blair and Manmohan Singh are expected to attend the summit. UK ruled India for nearly 2 centuries. There is a strong political and...
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In my earlier post, I talked about the article (Will Foreign Universities Come to India?) published in BusinessWeekOnline in support of allowing foreign universities to come India. Well, it seems that it is a matter of time now that Indian...
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I just read an article (Will Foreign Universities Come to India?) in BusinessWeekOnline written by Nandini Lakshman. Here, Nandini has strongly argued in favor of allowing foreign universities to set up their campuses in India. Many people in India now...
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Oct 8
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Rice is the most popular food item in Asia. If you go from east of India, then from Bangladesh to Japan- people of all these countries in this part of Asia eat rice as their main food. Even in India,...
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Indian government has been trying to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and it seems be paying off. India is still way behind in terms of attracting FDI but India is improving. Forbes reported: “The economy drew in a record 2.9...
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Third world countries most of the time do not want to understand the importance of infrastructure development. Take the case of India. Indian economy is now rising and shining and all the time in the media, we are praising the...
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Oct 7
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I covered the documentary of Channel 4 (The Data Theft Scandal) about the Indian call center industry in my two blogs. I predicted that it would create a strong reaction in UK. Well, it seems that my prediction has come...
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Oct 5
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Today, after few hours, UK’s channel 4 will broadcast the documentary about Indian call center industry, The Data Theft Scandal. Since it will be aired on prime time, I am sure that it will have a very large audience. In...
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Earlier this year, there was the fear of bird flu. Fortunately, bird flu scare did not affect the tourism sector in India. However, now there is dengue (the mosquito-borne disease) and it is becoming even a bigger headache for India...
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BCCI has so far refused to sign the Members' Participation Agreement (MPA) of ICC. This is vital for ICC as ICC can sign contracts with sponsors regarding the ICC events for the period 2007 to 2015. BCCI is against the...
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Indian economy is growing and the Indian market is expanding. So, for foreign companies, India is becoming an ever more lucrative market. Realizing it, LG has decided to invest more money in India. LG is going to mainly use the...
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Oct 4
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Hotels often give some discount to the customers to make them happy. Well, by discount we normally understand 5%, 10% or may be at best 20%. Can you ever think of having a discount of 102%? Well, sometimes unexpected things...
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US based SanDisk Corporation is one of the top players in flash memory storage cards has entered the Indian market with its MP3 player, USB flash drives, memory cards, mobile phone cards and digital imaging cards. The Hindu reported: “The...
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Tomorrow is the big day for Indian call center industry. Well, you may call it as Doom Thursday as Channel 4 (of UK) is going to broadcast a documentary titled The Data Theft Scandal in which it is going to...
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Oct 3
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Even 2 weeks ago, hardly anyone talked about dengue fever in India. Suddenly, in the last 100 hours, dengue seems to become something like a national crisis. This shows the strength of the mosquitoes. These tiny insects can attack very...
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Well, India and Africa are not going to develop new under sea cable system but are thinking of the prospect of merging two projects. Some African countries are trying to implement East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) but this project...
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Oct 2
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It is big news now: BCCI is gong to bid for buying the television rights of ICC global events. After next year’s world cup, ICC’s new eight-year slice of television rights is going to begin. In that eight-year period (2007-15),...
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China and India both are now considered among the top destinations for investment. Many international companies are now coming to these two countries. On the other hand, Chinese and Indian companies are trying to go global too. It seems that...
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Yesterday, I wrote about sending of jobs to India by Qantas Airways of Australia. Now, St. George Bank (the fifth largest Bank in Australia) is doing the same. Business Standard reported: “Australia's St George Bank is planning to transfer jobs...
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Oct 1
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There are thousands of Indian workers working in GCC countries and many of them are in Saudi Arabia. Many of these workers work with low paid salaries and when they get sick then it becomes difficult for them to pay...
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Success in Information Technology (IT) has given India a name in the world’s economic map. Now, many people in the world know India as the outsourcing power or emerging economic power instead of a poor country. After IT, it is...
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Bloomberg has reported: “Australia's unemployment rate was 4.9 percent in August, near a 30-year low, creating a shortage of skilled workers in many industries.” I think that this is a great opportunity for Indian workers. Indian government should take this...
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Qantas Airways Ltd. is the largest airlines in Australia. It is finding it difficult to tackle high employee cost and rising price of jet fuel. So, it is now seriously thinking of reducing workforce in Australia and outsourcing the jobs...
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