India

India’s domestic industry has suffered a ‘material injury’ because of Chinese products invading India. China was dumping Vitamin-C into Indian markets. Indian government has slapped a anti-dumping duty of $3.99 per kg. We all know…

Okay, on this blog we have been talking about constant rise of India and reasons on why India will become the next super-power. There are thousands of articles on the web talking about power shift from West to East, where Chindia (a new…

India is currently the 2nd largest Mobile Market in the world after China, adding nearly 10-12 million subscribers on average monthly. At the end of April 2009, Indian Mobile subscriber base was pegged at 403.66 million, as per recent…

That headline must have surprised you, especially because it is a known factor that India Inc. is shelling out much fatter pay packages than it did 10 years back. Infact, even a salary 20k p.m for a middle class is considered to be below…

WOW ! one of the better 10 minutes I spent in last few days – and it was spent watching and listening to a video Interview of Scott Anthony, president of Innosight, created by Harvard Business. I got to get my hands on that recently…

Transparency International recently released the Global corruption barometer for 2009 - it reveals that our Indian Neta’s for whom we cast our all important votes are the MOST corrupt lot, even more than Police and law officials ! …

While I was reading this post on Techcrunch today, I was wondering about the health of Indian Newspaper Ad Sales compared to that of US, and I was quite surprised with what I found. Indian Newspaper Advertising is not only healthy at…

Which countries do you think survived the economic Recession best? Yes, India is one of the top 3 countries that survived this downturn very well. Below are the full results from the Servcorp International Business Confidence Survey which…

Many of you would instantly jump on me saying – what a ridiculous question? – Offcourse an appreciated Rupee is good for us any day. Is it so? I actually had this debate couple of days back with a friend of mine who is in USA –…

Now here is something I think will be really a big win-win situation for employees as well as corporates.   If you have not understood what I am saying, here it is – IBM has announced a innovative partnership with Boston based…

I strongly feel the IPL matches are fixed and it is not the players who are doing it. If I have to put in our lousy cricket commentator's words  I just get the feeling that most of the IPL matches are fixed”. Guess the commentator?…

Building a temple is the ultimate glory in India and is the pinnacle for admiration for a person. Few celebrities and cricketers have this privilege. What should people do in a world of new found of capitalism? They will start a stock…

There was an interesting study done by few economists. They checked the denomination effect. Or the effect the coins have on the spending habits of the consumers. The results of the study are quite remarkable. People tend to spend the…

Should it or should it not? It has been the question for few years now. Back in 1991, this kind of discussion would have been far fetched. India was on the verge of bankruptcy when its foreign reserves were depleted and could not even cover…

I have come across so many example like this in last few years, that I am even surprised that there are still people who rely on buying things (sans railway, plane tickets) on the internet. The ecommerce market in India is small and it…

The CAT exam which is used for admissions by most of the MBA institutes in India and most importantly IIM's is going online. This move was contemplated in 2008 but, it will be implemented from 2009. CAT 2009 will be a computer based test…

I am hearing news about smart this, smart that and smart everything where every device has some kind of intelligence built in. Not the I Robot kind of intelligence. At least not yet. But, Smart Grid which is intelligence for electricity…

I found this for the first time. BPO Voice an online network of BPO professionals has a survey and a report about the economic outlook for BPO and outsourcing industry. I felt it is appropriate to get a broader sense from our readers.…

It is not a April fool joke and the date is a strange coincidence. Our financial year starts from April 1 and thus the coincidence. This news is doing the rounds in the Blogosphere for a few days now. I was just waiting for the conventional…

Need an idea for a startup in Bangalore? Dig a borewell, rent or buy 4 water tankers and you are in business. You might want to lease 4 more tankers in summer. It might not be the exact startup idea you are looking for or not even the most…