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Keeping it short might not be the sweet thing to do One important dimension, among the 12 rules for good communication, is brevity. ‘Be brief’ is the fourth rule; after ‘telling enough’, ‘being on the same wavelength’ and ‘watching your tone’. Yet, how brief is brief?   Someone who just...

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Disgruntled employees allege IOL Netcom has been withholding salaries since January 2009, allegedly due to cash problems. All is not well at IOL Netcom Ltd, an IPTV and Internet services company based in Mumbai. An ex-employee of the company complained that his salary has remained unpaid...

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  India’s gas production will almost double in the next four months due to production from the Kaveri Godavari (KG) basin. As per the director general of hydrocarbons—comments accessed by energylineindia—gas production will increase from 39 cubic metres per day (mmscmd) in October 2009 to...

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A small Indian company has become the technology supplier to GM's electric car. Veeresh Malik explains how significant this is   September 2009 saw an amazing moment in India’s automobile evolution—the announcement of a collaboration between what was the largest automobile manufacturer in the...

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Veeresh Malik on tales from the auto sector 04 November 2009
What was your last automobile purchase experience like, especially if you went to buy a car or a two-wheeler in what is known as the ‘popular’ segment? Let me delve into mine… I have been a regular visitor to automobile dealers’ showrooms for over 40 years now. It started with a day in 1967...

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The company has received 80% to 90% orders from the private sector. Analysts believe markets gained from Chinese players as the main reason for BHEL’s order book overflowing While Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) current order book stands at Rs125,800 million, as per analysts 80% to 90% of...

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Its much smaller rivals Dabur and Emami continue to record strong growth quarter after quarter Despite endless restructuring of its business portfolios and continuous high-profile change of its top management, Hindustan Unilever is unable to generate any traction on its sales and profits. For...

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Government has provided many benefits and tax incentives to the Shipping industry but in vain. Shipping companies have not made a mark in the past decade. The shipping industry is somewhat of a blot on the India growth story. It hasn't added any significant tonnage in over 14 years as...

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Cement producers in north India expect demand to improve despite fall in prices while analysts believe demand will be unable to meet the oversupply in the market Cement manufacturers from northern India are confident that there would be continuous demand following projects related with...

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Veeresh Malik on tales from the auto sector 03 November 2009
Automobiles of all sorts, manufactured in India, swarm our streets. In neighbouring countries, the automobile industry is still in the screwdriver era A couple of decades or so ago, just before the recent automobile revolution in India, the big argument was all about whether the Government of...

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Trees too need a support group;Dr Nita Mukherjee finds one rooted in Pune After witnessing the relentless felling of trees by builders and, as always, the bureaucracy turning a Nelson’s eye, for over a decade, Tasneem Balasinorwala could take it no more. She had moved to Pune in 1993 when it...

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Almost every developer in the country is seriously considering converting all future developments into green buildings and industries also should move towards it as going green would prove to be super-beneficial for them, feel industry leaders.   Speaking at the CII Green Business summit,...

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GuideMeSingapore.com, a portal that provides accurate and up-to-date business-oriented information about Singapore, has said that a comparison of the tax burden faced by start-ups in six economies reveals significant variation with that country coming out as the most tax-friendly jurisdiction....

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Jet Airways, the Naresh Goyal promoted airline, is eagerly awaiting clearance from the Foreign Investment and Promotion Board (FIPB) to raise $400 million through qualified institutional placements (QIPs).   Last week, the government deferred Jet Airways’ proposal to issue 79.2 million fresh...

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The fertiliser sector has been hit by another blow. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGOM), headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, in a fresh gas allotment plan, has allocated maximum of amount of gas available from the KG Basin to the power sector. NTPC and other power producers will get...

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The Central Vigilance Commission has advised initiation of major penalty proceedings against 111 officers from the government's various departments and State-run or public sector units (PSUs). The Ministry of Railways tops the list with 24 officers, followed by Govt of National Capital Region...

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Upholding the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) order to bar First Global Stock Broking Ltd's (FGSB) managing director Shankar Sharma from trading in equities market for a year, the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has dismissed his appeal against the SEBI order.   Earlier in...

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Beverage company PepsiCo has asked its employees from its Indian unit to move to IBM Global Services, to whom it has outsourced some of its operations, or quit, said informed sources.   The sources said PepsiCo has outsourced its IT operations to IBM and wants to shift its employees from the...

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These days every other GSM mobile services provider has been bit by the lower tariff bug. The "pay-per-call" and "pay-per-second" initiative by Tata Teleservices has forced major players like Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications (RCom) to join the tariff war. The latest to join the war...

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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) promoted Reliance Capital plans to enter into investment banking by the current fiscal end while Religare has announced an ambitious plan to start an emerging-markets investment bank. Do these plans make sense? Will they be able to compete against the...

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