Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Internet body approves new web suffixes | Deccan Chronicle

Internet body approves new web suffixes | Deccan Chronicle
A global body that charts the course of the Internet voted on Monday to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes by private companies, enabling major firms to replace '.com' with their own brand.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The highest advance tax payers in India - Rediff.com Business

The highest advance tax payers in India - Rediff.com Business: "Advance tax pay-up by India Inc presents a rosy picture, despite a massive fall in April IIP numbers and a likely fall in the remaining months of Q1; with the largest lender SBI leading the pack with Rs 1,100 crore (Rs 11 billion) against Rs 850 crore (Rs 8.50 billion) in the year-ago period.

Income Tax department sources said on Wednesday that oil and gas major RIL has paid Rs 900 crore (Rs 9 billion) in the first quarter of this fiscal, up nearly 50 per cent from Rs 650 crore (Rs 6.50 billion) in the same quarter previous fiscal."

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

India May Become Third Largest Auto Market by 2020  - CNBC

India May Become Third Largest Auto Market by 2020 - CNBC: "India, the world's sixth largest auto market, is poised to become the third-largest market for auto sales by 2020 after China and the United States, J.D. Power and Associates said on Monday."

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Revealed: Why Centre changed its Ramdev stance - Rediff.com News

Revealed: Why Centre changed its Ramdev stance - Rediff.com News: "At the Congress' core group meeting last week, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is believed to have asked Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee why he went to the airport to receive yoga guru Baba Ramdev.

She could understand others going but not Pranab.

The finance minister reportedly replied that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked him to go and that this was the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.

This conversation took place in the presence of the prime minister, and there was speculation afterwards whether her query was a way of expressing her unhappiness with Dr Singh on the way the Ramdev affair had been managed"

Saturday, June 4, 2011

The Great Indian Hijack - Indian Express

The Great Indian Hijack - Indian Express: "So what do we have for our new leadership now? A new pantheon consisting of a self-styled Mahatma Gandhi, a Vivekananda, a Sri Aurobindo and, well, if our society ever produced another neo-Maoist who draped himself in saffron, please remind me. Otherwise, we might just have one original here. And a government which won such an impressive mandate just two years ago, a coalition that can still sweep elections in so many states, has handed over the baton to them."

Friday, June 3, 2011

Dr. Lois Frankel: Nice Girl Syndrome: How to Know If You Have It And Ways To Overcome It (PHOTOS)

Dr. Lois Frankel: Nice Girl Syndrome: How to Know If You Have It And Ways To Overcome It (PHOTOS): "Women are still undervalued -- at home and at work. Even though women now fill 49% of all professional and managerial-level jobs, women CEOs lead in only 15 of the FORTUNE 500 companies, or 3 percent. The reasons are complicated but among them is the reality that traditional family structures, social norms, and established business practices prevent many women from reaching their potential. Clearly, these need to be reevaluated and redesigned -- but shifts of this type and magnitude take time. In the meantime, many women 'struggle to juggle' career and family. That's why we teamed up to write 'Nice Girls Just Don't Get It,' designed to help women win the lives they want."

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Per capita income in 2010-11 at Rs 54,835 - The Economic Times

Per capita income in 2010-11 at Rs 54,835 - The Economic Times: "Per capita income of Indians grew by 17.9 per cent to Rs 54,835 in 2010-11 from Rs 46,492 in the year-ago period, according to the revised data released by the government today."