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India Economic Summit 2009 - Economic Update: India’s Outlook

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:44:51 -0500

Officer, JP Morgan, India Rajat M. Nag, Managing Director-General, Asian Development Bank, Manila Raghuram G. Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB), USA Lars H. Thunell, Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington DC Moderated by Michael J. Elliott, Editor, Time International, Time Magazine, USA ... WEF World Economic Forum India Summit WEFIndia ...

Dangerous pitch at the Kotla, India - Cricket match abandoned

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:19:42 -0500

Sri Lanka 'chickened out', says DDCA vice-president The Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) vice-president and former India Test player Chetan Chauhan has said Sri Lanka "chickened out" out of the final ODI against India after finding themselves in trouble at 83 for 5 in the 24th over. He also questioned the officials' decision to call off the game and said the pitch was neither unplayable or dangerous. Chauhan’s comments, to the Indian news channel Times Now, are likely to add to ...

The PremiereTrade Market Wrap for 12/06/07

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:08:00 -0400

The European Central Bank held its benchmark rate unchanged at 4 percent, despite surging inflation and a stronger euro. Earlier, The Bank of England cut its key rate by a quarter of a point to 5.5 percent, worried about a slowing economy. The Labor Department reported that applications for jobless benefits dipped by 15,000 last week to a total of 338,000. The decline was the largest since the level of claims had dipped by 22,000 in the first week of September. The holiday shopping season got off to an uneasy start despite a big Thanksgiving weekend as consumers took advantage of big discounts and then pulled back, leaving retailers with mixed sales results for November. According to Thomson Financial, only seven merchants beat sales estimates, while 19 missed expectations. Dell (DELL) announced that it will sell a variety of XPS and Inspiron notebooks and desktop computers through Best Buy (BBY) in the next few weeks. Chevron (CVX) said its capital spending budget for 2008 will weigh in at $22.9 billion, up 15% from $20 billion last year. Coca-Cola Co. (KO) named President and Chief Operating Officer Muhtar Kent to succeed E. Neville Isdell as chief executive officer in July. Kent has worked at Coca-Cola or its bottlers since 1978. In Forex News According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, China should let its currency rise faster to help it counter overheating in its booming economy. The OECD’s latest Economic Outlook raised its forecast for China's economic growth this year to 11.4 percent, up from the earlier estimate of 10.4 percent. The economy grew 11.5 percent in the third quarter from the same period a year ago. The report by the Paris-based OECD, an international non-governmental organization that collects and studies economic statistics and social data, said China's controls on its currency were hampering efforts to slow growth and ease inflation. Beijing has pledged to loosen controls that keep the yuan trading in a narrow ...

Spotlight: Siemens AG

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:31:32 -0400

Interview with CEO Peter Loescher

Hotal Taj (Mumbai) Night View

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:08:17 -0500

In The Memory of Mumbai Victims (Nov 2008) I visited "Gateway of India" and "Hotel Taj" in Mumbai last year which is under terrorist attack at the moment. In the memory of innocent people who were died in Mumbai November 2008 events, I publish this video which shares the outer view of this landmark in peace.

India’s property boom

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:16:04 -0500

Dec 31 - Real estate sector in Jammu, India’s northern city, experiences huge increase in property prices despite recession and threat of militancy in surrounding state.

Femina Miss India '08 results announced

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:16:45 -0400

It was a big night for 29 gorgeous Femina Miss India 2008 contestants and the Miss India Universe Crown went to Simran Kaur Mundi, Miss India World crown went to Parvathy Omanakuttam and Miss India Earth title went to Harshita Saxena.

Sidner’s 2008 flood report

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:00:02 -0400

See CNN’s Sara Sidner's BackStory report on India's floods in 2008. Raw emotion, both for the victims and for this reporter.