पंडित गोविन्द प्रसाद अमृत महोत्सव

मध्यप्रदेश के वित्त मंत्री श्री राघव जी भाई द्वारा " राष्ट्र के गौरव " उपाधि से ज्योतिष सम्मलेन विदिशा में सम्मानित तथा पंडित ब्रजबल्लभ आचार्य स्मृति न्यास भोपाल द्वारा "शिरोमणि पंडित " की उपाधि से सम्मानित अखिल भारतवर्षीय धर्मं संघ के महामंत्री पंडित गोविन्द प्रसाद शास्त्री वरिष्ट धर्माधिकारी विदिशा के प्रति इस ब्लॉगर की यह भेंट समर्पित है। शुभम करोतु....

पंडितजी अमृत MAHOTSAV

Driving Deluxe

the bad news for all potential car buyers is that the price of crude oil has now topped $147 a barrel,which means hikes in fuel prices is only a matter of time.The good news is that India leads the world in the growth of rate of dollar millionaires.At last count ,these exceeded 100000 and were growing at 21per cent per year.These are buyers who took for Rs. 50-lakh car,and don't lose sleep over fuel prices.

If India is a poor nation ,can there be a market for so many sinfully expensive cars?

It is hard to believe the transition taking place in the land of Gandhian thrift and socialistic simplicity.But , as the marketers are themselves discovering to their surprise,the business of luxe is more than a reality than a dream now.

Hottest in Luxury

Jet Aiorways First Class:Rs.190000

Breguet watch:Rs.1-2crore

iPhone 3G:rS.8557

mACbOOK aIR: Rs .97000

BMW 1 Series 40 lakh rupees

surinder

Our right to defend

One of the prime functions of artistic expression is to offend standard sensibilities.In India ,Art remains a limp ptotective device.
Exactly 21 years ago today,on Feb.19,1989,Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to killl Salman Rushdie ,the author of what he proclaimed to be a blasphemous novel,"The Satanic Verses "While this act instantly galvanised--and radicalised --the protests from Muslim communities in various quarters against Rushdie,it was in India that "The Satanic Verses "was first banned end-Oct.1988 by the Rajiv Gandhi -led Congress government,months after the novel was first published .

The dangerous Web

virtual threats: Hacking was the most common form of cyber intrusion in India in February2009
70% website compromise &malware propagation
21% malicious code
4% phishing
1%spam

Dubai World to seek 6-month reprieve to repay $22b

Al Ittihad" report: Dubai World will request a debt freeze from the end of Feb.

A failure of Indian Diplomacy

The missing attributes of the Indian civil services viz. application ,initiative snd intelligence resulted in not being able to take the endless diplomatic initiatives to pressure Australia

E&Y Entrepreneur of the 2009

ANAND G MAHINDRA of Mahindra Group bagged the the top award for the year when his Twch Mahindra move to acquire &digest fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services &putting it back to on its feet.
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Healthcare &life sciences
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PANKAJ r. pATEL CMD Zydus Cadila

Vanishing Tigers

This blog is devoted to "Save our Tigers"compaign
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Counting of tigers ,which ranks first in the wildlife census going on these days,presents a sorry picture.The tigers have not only reduced in numbers but in certain sanctuaries they have totally vanished.The first news came from Sariska wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan ,with no trace of the tiger.All the tigers were killed by the infamous hunter Sansar Chand and other greedy villge folks.This led to the PM Dr.Singh to undertake a high level probe and tigers are being rehabilitated here once again.

Anybody whom takes the compilation subtitled "The strange case of the attack on the Indian Parliament"seriosly ,can only shake his head in sympathy or disbelief at the collective derangement of 1050 million Indians .
Could it be just that Afzal's case was legally indefensible and it was decided to let him get sentenced so that a tear-jerker amnesty plea could be subsequently?

The Search Within(a poetic take on the nation)

Who
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Which dream is this, that is unfolding

Whose blood is that boiling
Whose breath is that full of fire
Whose steps are faltering but holding
Words that are smouldering
Heartbeat that is emboldening
Whose steps sound like an army marching
Who is this awakening
Whose thirst is to drink a river
To tell the truth yet deliver
Whose wounds strike a melody
Intensity that melts an eternity
Whose shade is as magnificent as sunshine
Whose blood thick ,soup-like
Who is this with bones in his lips
With words fixed and crisp
Who is this moving on even in his sleep
Let me look within
Is this impudent one me?
The turmoil and rousing is in me perhaps
Self belief is what I am discovering

Over the Hump:Insurance

Insurance in India has crossed an inflection point and is well on its way to becoming the next hot thing in financial services.The earth moved with the revolution in telecom and retail banking.Well ,it is moving again with insurance.

Penetration and density are on the rise

country insurance penetration insurance density

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USA 9.61 3755.1

INDIA 2.88 22.7

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Across the industry,trained manpower ,consumer education and awareness,good quality data and use of technology at the customer interaction level are already getting in the way of growth.

Insurance industry is currently poaching from other aligned industries such as telecom and retail,but then it is equally at risk of attrition due to people leaving for other indudstries .However ,the biggest hurdle in the way of the industry's growth is a lack of capital.The section that follows tellls you what innovative methods insurers are using to overcome the constraint.

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1956.............Govt.sets up LIC OF iNDIA

2000............ Irda 's licences to private insurers.......ICICI Prudential and HDFC Standard Life ...first to sell.

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web addressses of private insurers

avivaindia.com

bajajallianz.com

bharti-axalife.com

birlasunlife.com

hdfcinsurance.com

iciciprulife.com

ingvysyalife.com

kotaklifeinsurance.com

maxnewyorklife.com

metlifeindia.com

reliancelife.co.in

saharalife.com

shriramlife.com

tata-aig.com

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Booknmark:Two Lives by Vikram Seth

Seth maintains his clear-cut ,unpretentious,though elegant and mesmerizing style from the first page to the last .
Yes. Two Lives is truly spectacular in the manner in which it interweaves wisps of India ,the Thirs Reich, Auschwitz, and the holocaust,Israel and Palestine,post-war Germany and Britain of the 1970s .

SOUTH KOREA:The Trillion Dollar Economy

Area:98859 sq.km.
Pop. 46.1 million
Literacy 98% Religion Buddhism,Christianity,Confucianism
Korean construction businesses are the most prolific in the world ,and the nation ranks second in ship building,making over 27% of ships built in 1994.Exports have crossed $1000 billion mark ,exhibiting a 1000-fold increase from the level of $1000 million in 1964.
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A highly modern ,advanced country with state of the art infrastructure and excellent telecommunications support ,South Korea has stunnned the world with its entry in FIFA World Cup 2002.Today ,it has brands such as Samsung,Hyndai and LG that have entered millions of households.There is much more in this Republic for businesses to profit ,as the economic growth seems unstoppable...
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INDO-KOREA BUSINESS RELATIONS
wITH kOREAN STEEL MAKER POSCO establishing a subsidiary in Orissa,it has become one of the largest potential foreign investors in India($12 billion)

Big , black& booming :black money

The growth of the parallel economy is distorting the legal economy.But the authorities are unable and unwilling to intervene.

Pricey politics: Political parties routinely fund their election expenses with crores in illicit money.

India's inaction on money laundering does not surprise Indians.But the US' track record is much better.

9/11 EFFECT:The atttack on the twin towers was funded by $300000 in hot money coming through varios conduits from Osama .

Hamara Bajaj hamara rahega:Bajaj Auto

Demerging Bajaj Auto ...Bajaj says the split will help unlock the value of different businesses ,but the Street feels otherwise

"Satyagrah:The Matchless Weapon"

Now there is a book that takes you on a step -by-step journey to how Gandhi went about making Satyagrah the ultimate weapon to achieve societal,environmental and political victories.In today's context,Satyagrah can be a perfect protest tool for consumers--much like the concept of 'boycott'that has often brought errant manufacturers and service providers to their knees

author:Savita Singh PUB: gOVT. OF iNDIAsATYAGRAH EMERGED AS A WELL-TESTED AND EXHAUSTIVELY EXPERIMENTED STRATEGY for bringing about a non-violent revolution --be it Nelson Mandela struggling to end apartheid in South Africa,or Martin Luther King fighting racism in America--all subsequently experimented with Satyagrah " at different parts of the world and got the desired results.

chip design:Intel inside IIT-Bombay

Why has Intel ,the$7-billion chip maker ,opened a VLSI lab at IIT-Bombay?Because it belives its $1000000 investment will boost the supply of engineeing talent for the chip design industry.

Smoke and mirrors

We need to know what happened in the 26/11 attack.the UPA must set up a panel to uncover the truth
Will we ever know the truth about 26/11 ?Were ther e only 120 terrorists who laid siege to the self-respect of a nation ?When Israel opened a line of negotiation with the terrorists at Nariman House ,how did the Centre respond ?During the strikes ,the Maharashtra DGP AN R oy publicly rubbished speculation that a line of commmunication could be opened with the attackers.But the intercepted tapes indicate that there were several openings to use negotiating skills to buy time--if not wear down the gunmen .Add on these tapes you can hear the Israeli negotiator from his Embassy inWashington imploring the terrorists to "GIVE US 2 HOURS"in order for the Indian ambassador to ghet in touch with "the government in Delhi".
After all,if the lessons of 26/11 are to be learnt and taught ,one must first know what the unvarnished facts were.Surely ,ther truth doesn't have to terrorise us?

climate shock

DOCTOR,DOCTOR ,SOMETHING'S WRONG
A host of climate -related diseases threaten to swamp already strained public health systems
Possible problems Adverse effects
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Temperature extremes More daily deaths and disease events
Fooods More injuries,deaths and rise in infectious diseases
Aero-allergen production Increased allergic disorders(hay fever asthma etc.)
Food-poisoning
Water-borne infection
Vector -borne infection
Fisheries
Sea-level rise

IS THE INTERNET TAKING OVER OUR LIVES?

WE'RE on the Net 24+7 ,whether it's our PCs,laptops or mobiles .Have we started relating more to the virtual world than the real world?
What people do online...........
Email
Chat
Google Search
Social Networking
Reading blogs
YouTube videos
Downloading
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Thus begins The Machine Stops,EM Forster's science fiction tales,published in1909.The novella describes a world in which almost all humans lead isolated lives in underground cells .etc...............

IT:WHEN THE ELEPHANT JUMPED{IBM}

IBM'S strides have been invisible but could affect the fortunes of the Indian IT leaders
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Legacy lives on :IBM founder Thomas J Watson Sr. 's slogan 'Think' became its brand ThinkPad ,now used by Lenovo
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IBM in Bric countries : India :73000 employees,$750 million,Largest IT company ,bigger than TCS,Wipro,Infotech
China:10000employees in2007,$1.5 billion

Infosys:Markets &Margins

After its core market hit self-destruct ,Infosys began looking at high-margin areas &new products.
rANK NO.3 AVERAGE MARKET CAPITALISATION Rs.105306 cRORE
tHE COMPANY HAS BEEN ....
Pruning costs
building capacities

bookmark:well-written snapshots

The Next Asia:Stephen Roach
Legendary economist STEPHEN ROACH's book on Asia is wide-ranging ,but offers few new insights on India.
Stephen Roach has been with the Broookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Board,but he identified more with Morgan Stanley ,where he has been Chief Economist for years,and is currently Morgan Stanley's Asia operations.
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publisher:wiley
price Rs.2450

India's web story:still not fast enough

No.7: India's global rank for average connection speed ,at895 kbps. Haryana tops the list of Indian states ,with an average speed of1271 kbps.
No.4 India's position in terms of Internet traffic.It had 3.9per cent of observed traffic.China &US accounted for 45%.

Song sangh true

Mumbai is for all Indians .Coming from the RSS chief ,this won't be music to the ears of the Senas.

            So for the RSS to give a stern finger wag at the goons protesting against non-Marathis is helpful not only to firm up the notion of Indians being free to work,live, drive and travel in taxis,wherever they want  ,but also to help Mumbai not to return being the fishing town it once was.

hANGING BY A COAT

RK Pachauri shouldn't perpetuate the dogma that being well-off comes in the way of being honest .

     Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has thawed that old debate that ,we had been frozen with time:is it sinful to be rich?To quote an Irish dandy who preferred wearing an expensive jacket to a shabby coat,"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating ."

      Don't worry that yours isn't a biodegradable rags-to-climate crusading tale.In fact ,don't worry at all.

Basic nations drift away from Copenhgagen

RETHINK? The mitigation action given to the UN by 4 Nations does not keep accord in mind 

                     Less than 2 months after agreeing to the Copenhagen accord ,India ,China,Brazil,&South Africa,or Basic countries ,have moved away from the accord in their communication on domestic mitigation action submitted to the UN.

                        

something spiritual

"where there is Krishna,Dharma or righteousness is there;and where there is righteousness ,victory is assured"

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bible:  "Arise ,shine ,for your light has come ,

                and the glory of the LORD rises upon you

                   see,darkness covers the earth

                      and thick darkness is over the peoples,

                         but the LORD rises upon you

                             and his glory appears over you.

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