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Budget ’09: Rs31,000 cr mission to develop skills Expected to be operational in the next fiscal year, the skill development plan is to extend training facilities to 10 mn people a month, up from 2.5 mn a year at present Sangeeta Singh New Delhi font size To address India’s growing...

Nano-manufacturing : The next big thing 4 Feb, 2008, 1011 hrs IST, TNN Small is the new big. As is evident from reducing size of all the equipments and accessories that we are using. And helping produce smaller objects is the new technology called nanotechnology. It is the science of...

Korean students learn Hindi for jobs in India February 04, 2008 New Delhi: Hindi is becoming more popular among foreign students who want to get huge employment opportunities at various professional sectors in India. The recent instance came from young Korean students who are opting for...

Facing skills shortage, Indian cos recruit Sri Lankans Monday, 04 February , 2008, 11:49 Colombo: Faced with a labour and skills shortage in India, some Indian companies have started recruiting from Sri Lanka. "I have recently received three enquiries from south India for engineers...

Bollywood: The musical Edward Tsumele Sowetan, South Africa 04 February 2008 It was a couple of years ago and the venue for the party was a friend’s flat in suburban Killarney, in northern Johannesburg. The hostess was Indian. The food was delicious curry. While some of us were...

India's Capital Inflows Complicating Monetary Policy, IMF Says By Shamim Adam Bloomberg Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India will attract "large capital inflows'' as the economy expands, complicating efforts by the central bank to curb the rupee's accelerated gains, the International Monetary Fund...

A stake in India's new economy Indo-Canadian business owners trickle back to India to serve a growing middle-class Peter Diekmeyer Financial Post, Canada Published: Monday, February 04, 2008 NEW DELHI -Ravi Gupta studies a hunk of metal pulled from a rack adjoining a blast furnace at...

A Tale of Two Economies Rajan Chandras Intelligent Enterprise, CA Monday, February 4, 2008 The signs are familiar and worrying: a US economy that cannot seem to rebound, job losses on the rise, and consumers getting increasingly jittery. Will US companies, in a desperate bid to cut costs...

India's Glittering Jewellery Market By Commodity Online 04 Feb 2008 at 09:47 AM GMT-05:00 MUMBAI (CommodityOnline.com) -- With exports of $17.1 billion in 2006-07, India's gem and jewellery industry has been second only to textiles in earning foreign exchange for the country. As per the...

Surgeon: Indian ophthalmology is poised for global leadership BANGALORE, India — With knowledge, expertise and technology, in addition to a growing economy, India is poised to become a global leader in the elimination of needless blindness, said the guest of honor here at the All India...

Lack of english is the only reason why there isn't any major migration happening into Japan considering that people are willing to migrate even to Australia with an economy 1/7th the size of Japan.

Cisco Plan Will Create 360,000 Network Engineers In India The five-year strategy builds on Cisco's $1.1 billion investments in Indian ventures in recent years. By Mary Hayes Weier InformationWeek, NY February 4, 2008 11:31 AM Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) released on Monday its plan to help...

Global financial crisis unlikely to affect India greatly: IMF 4 Feb 2008, 2306 hrs IST,PTI WASHINGTON: A senior IMF official on Monday said India, given the structure of its economy, its exports and financial markets, is going to figure a "bit further down" in the spectrum of countries...

IT cos to step in Japanese market Mini Joseph Tejaswi,TNN 5 Feb 2008, 0044 hrs IST BANGALORE: English sells across the world, but not in Japan. Culturally and linguistically, Japan is an extremely tough market to penetrate. This kept Indian workforce and the Indian technology industry away...

Golf's glamour attracts India's rich Shilpa Kannan Business reporter, BBC News, Mumbai Walking hand in hand Rakesh and Anju Mehra are scouting for their dream home. Being passionate golfers, they want to spend more time closer to the greens. The premium golf villa they are...

Playing our ace Lady Blackstone on why Britain and India can work wonders together Lady Blackstone Guardian, UK Tuesday February 5, 2008 India has become the focus of a great deal of attention in UK universities, even before last month's visit by the prime minister and a group of...

Indian economy to grow at 8.75% this fiscal: IMF Press Trust of India Monday, February 04, 2008 (Washington) The International Monetary Fund has projected the Indian economy to grow at a rate 8.75 per cent this fiscal on the back of rising productivity and investment. Though the...

Intel lines up $1 b for India Press Trust of India MUMBAI, Feb. 3: Global chip maker Intel will invest more than one billion dollar in India over the next three years as it seeks to prepare light-weight personal computers in partnership with Indian and foreign hardware firms. “We have...

India as an investment destination 3 Feb, 2008, 0412 hrs IST,Sukumar Rajah, A Significant development over the last couple of years has been the renewed optimism about India as an investment destination amongst global investors. This is reflected in the strong foreign portfolio inflows...

Look to India As the New Powerhouse By Mark Dampier The Independent; London (UK) 2008-02-02 Of all the emerging markets, it is China that hogs the headlines. Its massive population and huge urbanisation plans continually break new records. The capital Beijing is hosting this year's summer...