New Delhi: With 1.25 million infant deaths annually and 42 percent of the kids being underweight, India has slipped in the area of child well-being in the last 15 years, according to a report released Thursday. The Child Development Index (CDI) released by NGO Save the Children showed that Japan is the best place in [...]
Kleinburg, ON: The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, located in this town, north of Toronto, will be hosting the one-and-only Canadian showing of the exhibition, The Last Harvest: Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore, opening on May 19, 2012. Tagore (1861-1941) is beloved by Indians as a poet and writer. He was recognized around the world as the [...]
Google’s Chrome operating system or OS, a fresh challenge to Microsoft’s dominant Windows OS, was launched on Tuesday. The Chrome initiative, led by Indian-American Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice-president for product management, was launched with a pilot programme featuring a 12-inch unbranded laptop running the new OS. Pichai, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and the primary [...]
The prevailing uncertainty worldwide on account of the European debt crisis and tiff between North and South Korea have infused fresh buying of the precious metal. Gold prices touched their all-time high of Rs 20,615 per ten grams (gold standard in Mumbai) and Rs 20,910 (in Delhi) in the Indian markets on Wednesday as buying [...]
Reliance Life expects to come out with its initial public offering (IPO) in 2011 as soon as the regulator — Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) — announces IPO guidelines. Industry insiders say the new norms will be out in the next 3 to 4 months. Reliance Life is a part of Anil Ambani-controlled ADA [...]
Golmaal was a hit, Golmaal Returns was a bigger hit and Golmaal 3 is the biggest hit in the trilogy,” says trade analyst Amod Mehra. He adds that part 3 of Rohit Shetty’s best-selling franchise supposedly budgeted at Rs 50 crore, and should do an estimated business of at least Rs 75 crore given that [...]
Forget market appetite. Good fundamentals and attractive pricing can do the trick for a public issue of shares. That is what experts say on the public issue of Coal India Ltd, which has already been subscribed 11.64 times with one more day to go before the issue closes. Market watchers anticipate CIL’s initial public [...]
Wealth in India and the Asia-Pacific region is growing faster than that of developed economies in line with their higher growth rates. According to the Global Wealth Report by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, India’s total wealth tripled to $3.5 trillion (R154 lakh crore) over the last decade against the global growth rate of [...]
The ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project has opened up an array of investment opportunities for foreign players, private equity funds and domestic investors. Speaking at a CII event to explore business opportunities in the proposed project Amitabh Kant, CEO and managing director of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, said a large number of [...]
