Archive for September 3rd, 2008
‘Frugal engineering is India’s strength’
Business-The Times of India
In an interview to the TOI, the current poster boy of the global car industry, Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn and M&M’s charismatic managing director Anand Mahindra exuded an optimism that may well set the future for joint ventures in India’s fast growing automobile business.
And the no-nonsense, tough speaking Ghosn who has worked [...]
How individuals follow group behavior
A classic of behavioral psychology. Goes some way towards explaining why individuals fall in line with political or social movements, though flawed. A T-shirt I saw recently in Chicago said “Think…It’s not illegal, yet”
Indian rubber clones a hit with Latin American planters
The Financial Express
The first consignment of saplings developed by Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII) will reach Mexico within a week. Planters in Guatemala too, are in talks with rubber nurseries in India to buy the high-yielding and disease- resistant rubber saplings.
Although rubber was first brought to India more than 100 years ago from Brazil, [...]
TCS, Infosys, Wipro nextGen megavendors: Gartner
The Financial Express
India’s top IT services companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies will emerge as the next generation of IT service megavendors, according to Gartner, Inc. These vendors are increasingly being considered for strategic service deals, and will augment or in some cases, replace today’s acknowledged megavendors by revenue – IBM [...]
India Edible Oil Imports May Rise as Dry Weather Reduces Sowing
Bloomberg.com: India & Pakistan
India, the world’s biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may import more cooking oil in the year starting November as dry weather reduced monsoon sowing of peanuts, sunflower and sesame seeds.
Purchases may increase by at least 500,000 metric tons from 5.1 million tons this crop year ending Oct. 31, said Govindlal [...]
Salto and Guaviyú – Taking the Waters in Uruguay’s Gaucho Corner
NYTimes.com
Of the 1.8 million visitors to Uruguay in 2006, more than half were Argentine. But quietly, Uruguay is developing a second vacation spot that may help uncouple its tourism fortunes from Buenos Aires. It has found its best hope 3,000 feet underground, in the hot springs along the Uruguay River, a once-isolated region that even [...]
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