Saturday, August 26, 2006

MILK IT TO PERFECTION

A beauty trend made famous by the world-renowned glamour queen, Cleopatra, milk is now passé for just being a drink. The National Research Centre on Camel (yes, NRCC! There is such an organisation!) in Rajasthan claims that camel milk keeps age at bay by making skin wrinkle-free. With this new research, cows are facing some serious competition, since the NRCC team has already developed an anti wrinkle camel milk cream, cheaper and more feasible than taking milk baths. Trust us Indians on world-class innovations!

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Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Friday, August 25, 2006

Steam and Combustion Engine


The steam engine was the driving force in the 19th century and the combustion engine in the 20th; solar power will do in this century. While this perspective will not reduce petrol bills in the short term, it can already help you save money elsewhere. Dramatic improvements in the efficiency of solar-powered devices may help save consumers overall. The amortization time of solar energy systems has been reduced noticeably in recent years and a household household in sunny India should soon be able to off set steep sales prices for solar systems against old-style energy bills. And it may also leave you with some extra Rupees needed to fill ‘em up, when petrol prices reach levels that would even make Goddess Lakshmi blush, before technological innovation will make its way to the market that will turn your gas guzzler into a drip-counter.

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Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Indian On Growth


With results considered for 44 private and public sector banks, the banking sector registered a growth of 4% in its net profit during the quarter. The auto (two wheelers) industry showed similar results. While Hero Honda recorded a growth of 16% in terms of its net profits, TVS Motors saw a drop of 15%. It is expected that the positive performance will rub on to the stock markets as well. As Mittal comments, “The superb corporate earnings added with strong growth of the economy has given the markets stronger fundamentals to go up once again.” Positive sentiments are already visible as the BSE Sensex has gained 8.59% over the fortnight ended on August 4, 2006. So once again, it could well be time to fasten your seat belts and get ready to soar as India Inc. does its bit by refueling the dampened investor sentiment at the bourses.

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Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Monday, August 21, 2006

A NATION OF FAILURES?

EXAM PRESSURES ARE TERRORISING STUDENTS & DESTROYING PERSONALITIES

The date that sends shivers down the spine of the young population is inevitably the ominous D-Day of reckoning or in common parlance: the day of examination. And that day, and also the back breaking hours that got spent preparing, would also supposedly define whether or not he or she is to lead a dignified life. This format of judging a child, simply based on an obsession with percentages, is bringing unimaginable pressure on students – much of it due to parents and peer criticism – leading to their breakdown, and at times tragically culminating into suicides. A bad examination day simply means low self esteem, less approval and least recognition.

A study by VIMHANS on students across 150 schools in Delhi revealed that close to 40% of students felt the overwhelming pressure of examinations. Another survey under the ‘Student Mental Health Programme’ has found that close to 70% of students suffer from stress and anxiety. Nearly 33% reported sleeping disturbance, with half of them going for medicines for headache and ‘memory enhancement’. The final tragic outcome of this trauma had a reflection last year in Tamil Nadu when 19 students killed themselves and about 200 attempted to take their lives.


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Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Saturday, August 19, 2006

GE Failing on Expectations

With their industrial business growing at just 5%, how can they call it solid?” Yes, the need of the hour really is in focusing on high-return businesses and selling off the non-profi table and overambitious ones (like NBC). It makes no logic to sell-off chunks of productive business (financial services and infrastructure) and then enter highly capital-intensive industries. And the focus should really be on investing in R&D and increasing manpower for their financial services. GE is clearly failing on expectations. The call is urgent, lest we have another giant (read Vodafone) ready, which can pride itself only on ‘size’ with billions in brilliant losses, year- after- year!

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ENCOURAGE PRIVATE PARTICIPATION

The raging debate as to who owns the infinity of heavens has met with renewed vehemence and acrimony as wellas enhanced human pursuit of adventure and enterprise. Only this time, the players have been more successful than the traditional government run bureaucratic scientific enterprise. Ever since Dennis Tito’s self financed visit to International Space Station in 2001 fructified, increased private participation for gaining access to it has met with higher support. This venture got the maximum boost when the world’s first privately developed space vehicle, ‘Spaceship One’, on its way to win the Ansari X prize, broke the highest altitude award of 41 years (it reached 112 kms, placing the pilot in the Lower Earth Orbit) in 2004.


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Friday, August 18, 2006

Zidane's Popularity

Moreover, Zidane incarnated values that seem threatened nowadays, but to which ordinary people remain attached: Loyalty to family, diligence, and cooperation. Here is a man who was not only a world champion, but also a model son and father. The almost timid way in which, after France’s victory over Spain, he expressed his love for his mother touched viewers around the world. To understand Zidane’s popularity, one need only set his modesty and attention to others against the arrogance and indifference that characterise the behaviour of so many other celebrities, including football players. At a time when, in France, as in the rest of the world, the chasm between the elite and ordinary people has never been so wide, when the smugness of the affluent has never been so cruelly felt by the less fortunate, Zidane, a son of despised immigrants, became an international star, and yet preserved the simplicity of his origins.

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Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Blair Announced Political Retirement

Indisputably, these elections are but a snapshot of national opinion – in a poll conducted by The Daily Telegraph, the Labour party has been found trailing behind his youthful Conservative rival, David Cameron, for the first time in five years. Cameron bagged 44% in the poll, against 38% for a Labour administration led by Blair’s likely successor, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Gordon Brown. Blair has already announced his political retirement at the end of this tenure. But most unfortunately, the malaise has now spread beyond the personality of Blair, and even his announced retirement cannot repair the damage. The fault really lies with Blair, who deliberately ignored correcting various unbelievable blemishes – the seat buying incident being the latest. Dear Tony, the least you could have done was perchance do what Clint Eastwood would have finished with panache... Shoot the bad, and hit the ugly unconscious!... And you didn’t!

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

IIPM-News Article :- IT CAN READ ALL, & SOON BURN ALL!

If Sony & Toshiba don’t mate, a surprise winner will steal millions

It is clear that the DVD era will not last long. Industry heavyweights, Sony & Toshiba, have been vociferously pitching for next-gen disc formats. The objective: A massive leap in storage capacity. The method: Poles apart. Sony is betting on the 50 GB Blu ray format, while Toshiba is on the 30 GB HD DVD. Sony has, in fact, been desperately offering Blu-ray recorders since 2003 in Japan without significant progress due to high cost of ownership. This is while Toshiba is launching its first set of HDDVD recorders on July 27, 2006 (originally July 14, 2006) after encountering hiccups in the production cycle.

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Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

GREEK & LATINO?

NOT at all! The solution is simple

As the Latin American battlefield of Cold War contestants (US & erstwhile USSR) becomes icy, peace in terms of economic & human development still seems to elude the republic of Guatemala. The era of CIA sponsored coups and banana republics might have ended with the end of the 36 year old civil war (in 1996), yet the stranglehold of select few on key economic sectors remains firm as ever. The economy of $27 billion has agriculture making up for about one fourth of GDP and about two third of exports. However, the distribution of income remains highly unequal, what with traditional exports of sugar, banana, beef, coffee and rubber being dominated by just a select group of 20-50 families; and 2% of the population holding about 72% of the agriculture land.

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