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August 7, 2010 by pankajspider
The illogically costly 3G auction, evidently, has strategic implications for both Bharti and Reliance Communications. B&E does a snapshot 'dummies guide' competitive analysis primer on the two by Virat Bahri   The market for data will remain restricted to specific markets and not be uniform like voice. In terms of subscriber numbers, Bharti is at around 130.6 million users (COAI, April 2010), while RCom has crossed the 100 million mark fairly quickly; with subscriber nu...
August 7, 2010 by pankajspider
The illogically costly 3G auction, evidently, has strategic implications for both Bharti and Reliance Communications. B&E does a snapshot 'dummies guide' competitive analysis primer on the two by Virat Bahri   The market for data will remain restricted to specific markets and not be uniform like voice. In terms of subscriber numbers, Bharti is at around 130.6 million users (COAI, April 2010), while RCom has crossed the 100 million mark fairly quickly; with subscriber nu...
August 6, 2010 by pankajspider
Guess who’s the new bird under Salman Khan’s wing? It’s Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter Sonakshi who is starring opposite him in Dabangg. The two have been getting along well, and Salman has been promoting her a lot. He has now decided to capture her beauty on canvas! To date, he has painted only Katrina Kaif, Asin and Aamir Khan. Let’s see if Sonakshi captures the imagination of the world too. For more articles, Click on IIPM Article . Source : IIPM Editori...
August 5, 2010 by pankajspider
The results of UK’s General Elections were a forgone conclusion, but this long drawn out impasse might throw some strange bedfellows, reports James Landale from London   Legitimacy Question So what may David Cameron have in his goody bag to offer the Liberal Democrats? Well, they have some policies that cross over – both parties for example want a so-called pupils’ premium to support educationally deprived children. But the Tory leader will have ...
August 5, 2010 by pankajspider
The results of UK’s General Elections were a forgone conclusion, but this long drawn out impasse might throw some strange bedfellows, reports James Landale from London   Legitimacy Question So what may David Cameron have in his goody bag to offer the Liberal Democrats? Well, they have some policies that cross over – both parties for example want a so-called pupils’ premium to support educationally deprived children. But the Tory leader will have to...
August 4, 2010 by pankajspider
While drug makers around the world are lamenting the death of their patent rights on many blockbusters, there is a certain tribe smiling about it – the Indian generic tribe by Steven Philip Warner So how can Indian pharmacos leverage the opportunity ahead? Says Atul Sobti, CEO, Ranbaxy to B&E, “The opportunity is huge but a lot depends on how you exploit it. Recently we launched an authorised generic of Ocycodone ER tablets (pain reliever), which has been a huge s...
August 3, 2010 by pankajspider
The IIPM Think Tank analyses the five largest economies (excl. China) – US, Japan, Germany, France, UK   President Barack Obama recently applauded a government report that indicated the American economy’s rise by 3.2% in the first quarter this year, saying, “This means that our economy as a whole is in a much better place than it was a year ago”. It was the third straight quarterly expansion, even though it was weaker than the 5.6% gain in Q4 2009. T...
August 2, 2010 by pankajspider
Yes and yes again – whenever one reads any story related to North-Eastern girls and boys migrating to prime metros, one simply expects the portrayal of racial discrimination, sexual harassment, crime and all that related jazz! As a toast to that, allow us to present a shamelessly contrarian and adulatory endorsement of such migration by Neha Saraiya   Author U. A. Shimray, quoting the report, writes in an essay Feeling Diaspora that Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Na...
July 31, 2010 by pankajspider
Two passions that are tearing apart the shy Twilight actor, Robert Pattinson, aren’t Kristen Stewart and work, but music and acting! In fact, he isn’t even sure whether acting is his real calling! An actor, musician and songwriter, Robert wants to cut an album soon but ‘can’t concentrate on two things at once’. Kristen meanwhile ‘loves the way he sings’ and is sad he isn’t able to work at it. We hope to see the rock star in Rob soon!   ...
July 30, 2010 by pankajspider
AMD, after losing its sheen during the past few years, is now trying to hit back at competition by targeting emerging markets like India. But will that alone suffice for an ailing chipmaker? B&E chats up with AMD top managers in US and India. by Steven Philip Warner, Amir Moin & Hsotuhsa Alobrah    The company has taken some steps of late, to improve its overall situation in the face of fierce competition. Marty Seyer, Chief Strategy Officer of AMD tells B&E, &l...
July 29, 2010 by pankajspider
Will she, won’t she act with Ranbir? The rumour mills were set abuzz when Deepika Padukone was not seen in a soft drink commercial that featured Ranbir Kapoor and was a brand endorsed together by the duo when they were a couple. But Deepika has been vehemently denying such rumours and maintains that she shares a good equation with Ranbir and that there is no need to “read between the lines”! Let’s wait and watch when they finally get around to bettering the magic ...
July 28, 2010 by pankajspider
FIIs have long been considered the reason Indian stock markets have gone up and collapsed too. How much of this thinking is true? What would the coming months be like? For the non-quant investor, B&E brings a seat-of-the-pants primer to understand the FII hype! An ‘Investment Confidence Index’ report released by JP Morgan Asset Management in October 2009 had said that a majority of investors and advisors expected the Sensex to climb back to somewhere ...
April 9, 2010 by pankajspider
While leading journalism schools worldwide teach journalists the sacred value of reporting a story with an immaculately neutral point of view, many 'investigative' journalists, given frequently to sensationalist reporting, unfortunately have ended up being bards to the slant that everything positive about the protagonist must have been bought and everything negative must be true! One such entity to clearly have had its unfair share of such roughneck reportage from an unseemly coterie is the ...
January 22, 2010 by pankajspider
A workshop on energy management was conducted for the management students at IIPM on the 26th of June’09 with an aim to educate the students about importance of energy conservation and management. It was an initiative of Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) in association with Prithvi Innovations an NGO at IIPM’s Lucknow Campus. The workshop started at 9:30 AM and continued for about 3 hrs. The workshop comprised a mix of audio visual presentations and interactive ...
January 14, 2010 by pankajspider
The students of PGP (08-10)SS were taken   for a Factory Visit to Roltex India Pvt. Ltd. ROTEX is manufacturing products in the field of Pneumatic Automation & Instrumentation, since 1976 under Technical collaboration from reputed European manufacturers. ROTEX is also one of the few companies to boast of an ISO-9001 accreditation at their Vadodara Unit. The certificate has been awarded by TÜV DEUTCHLAND.   The students were shown the working of various engineeri...