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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Anti-xenophobic pill!

Indian pharmas are now truly going global
Ask a medical practitioner what makes him a proud Indian. Ask patients around the world why they trust Indian medicines... Ask any question to test the fundamentals of Indian drug industry and you’d suddenly find yourself amongst pharma giants, gloriously inviting the world to welcome Indian drugs! And true it is. With exports alone earning a breath-taking Rs.246 billion during 2006-07 for the pharma industry (accounting for a scintillating 30% of total revenues), the importance of exports can’t be overlooked. Also, while the sector is upbeat about its double-digit 17.5% growth in retail sales during FY2006-07 (to touch Rs.279 billion), exports reported a brisker growth of 22.2% (Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy 2006)? Surely, much attention of late has been diverted to this growth engine and with a walloping 30% growth expected this fiscal, you can only imagine the rising weight of overseas markets, well-put by Anindya Acharya, Dty. Director of CII’s Pharma Division as, “The Indian domestic market is showing single digit growth. Hence, many Indian companies have been looking at foreign markets to generate revenues.” A marked rise in M&As & licensing deal-count have proved that the Indian pharma army can fire on foreign lands as well, and well! And with appreciation in exports, India Inc. has proved its drug-selling capacity on foreign lands as well. So give it to them, what say?!

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Post-merger issues

In the same regard, leading players like Air Deccan and Jet Airways are bucking the trend, while Kingfisher is still contemplating to increase the prices in the near future. A spokesperson from Kingfisher stated when contacted by B&E, “We don’t have any plans as such for the upcoming festive season this year.” Officials from Jet Airways, were equally reluctant to comment, though JetLite is indeed warming up with a number of route expansions. Air India, which seems quite preoccupied with post-merger issues, also declined to reveal any plans for the festive season. Indeed, there is every indication that the LCC model will continue to be followed, though the customer might sorely miss the ultimate ‘no frill’ bliss in the coming season. Currently, in a bid to successfully ensure maximisation of their top lines and bottom lines, these airlines would be in no mood for customer ‘delight’ as of now, when it is becoming a question of their own survival. So, if you get the impression of a cold shoulder from the industry this season, give them the benefit of doubt for once. They are living in troubled times, after all!

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

People’s power!

Military must relinquish power
Ever since the eviction of the British from Myanmar, democracy has continued to elude this tiny Asian nation. With inflation constantly on the rise, poverty increasing & freedom of speech fully curtailed, the people are yearning to let the Tatmadaw (the Myanmar military) know their plight and allow them to provide them with the necessary economic infrastructure to grow. However, the recent hike in the gas prices by the State Law & Order Restoration Council (SLORC) has acted as ‘last straw on the camel’s back’ – certain sections came out on streets, just a few furlongs from Yangon, the country’s political capital. Th e withdrawal of the subsidies on gas by the government & the subsequent price rise only go to prove that the so-called “Burmese Way to Socialism”, is definitely under threat. Under such circumstances, the absence of democracy will only lead the junta to act tough, merely to preserve their power.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Divine gains...

... from a loss making company!
At the outset, some investment moves look quite illogical, even amusing! Consider the instance of a $50 million Fine Violins Fund (to invest in old violins) in the UK. Or, consider (in the UK again) the investment by BC Partners Ltd. Who bought 76% stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $4.6 billion on June 19. Raymond Svider, a managing partner of BC Partners stated, “Intelsat and the FSS sector are in the midst of a cycle of strong performance.” However, the first reactions of onlookers would be of utter shock.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

DEFENCE : INTELLIGENCE

Coordi-nAtIoN
The state of internal intelligence

The first strike against your enemy in war is to know when the enemy would strike you. In more conventional words, those are the intelligence agencies that are the mainstay dark horses who decide who would be the victor. While the efficacy of gun totting foot soldiers in a battle can never be underestimated, without adequate backing from a technology driven intelligence division, they are as good as sitting ducks. While there’s a plethora of intelligence agencies starting from RAW, IB, Army Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence et al, the lack of coordination between them is legendary, be it in information on Kargil or even in controlling relentless terrorist activities.

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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Economic Cooperation with China

In the same league, the Chinese interference in the subcontinent is on a rise, be it arming Sri Lanka and Bangladesh or setting up strategic bases in Indian Ocean. China’s economic growth has coincided with a stupendous increase in its defence expenditure, reaching an official level of $45 billion ($70 billion claimed unofficially) with a massive manhunt for oil to fuel the growing economy, where time and again it is confronting ONGC. Yet, it’s not just India. Be it Taiwan, Japan or even United states and Russia, no one knows what the dragon would eventually be up to. In its quest to become the largest economy of the world – as has been predicted by the Goldman Sachs – China would increasingly have face-off s with India. And even though it still makes a lot of sense to maintain economic cooperation with China, under no circumstances can India lower its guard. We paid the price for that in 1962. It’s high time we learnt from history... or from the Chinese DonFeng missiles.

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Monday, November 19, 2007

GM’s diesel way to trucks!

General Motors Corp. has announced that the company plans to spend $100 million in its engine plant in Tonawanda, New York, for making a new diesel engine for light duty trucks, to enhance fuel efficiency by 25% and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 13%. The auto giant said it will make the 4.5L V8 engines for North American pickup trucks and the Hummer H2 built after 2009. This revelation came at a time when GM, well known for its dependence on gas-guzzling SUVs, tries to bring about an image makeover and improve badly hit sales.

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L3 outbids mighty Raytheon…

L3 Communications Holdings has been granted a $2.04 billion contract by Pentagon. L3 would provide tactical transport aircraft to service the US Army as well as the air force. L3 along with Italian partner Finmeccanica SpA’s subsidiary Alenia North America Inc., Boeing Co. and Global Military Aircraft Systems had outbid Raytheon. Massachusetts based Raytheon had partnered CASA, a subsidiary of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV, (EADS). L3 would build 78 C-27J Spartan cargo planes, which would replace C-23 Sherpa, C-36, a few C-12s and other established transport aircraft s like Boeing’s CH-47 Chinook.

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Popularity of Baywatch

When and why did you join PETA?
I have been active with PETA since the early ’90s. Because of the popularity of Baywatch, I knew that I could use my fame to draw attention to – and help stop – cruelty to animals. So I bombarded them with letters until they took me on board!

What was the one incident that made you sit up and take notice of animal rights?
My crusade started when I was 10 years old and I walked into the shed behind our house on Vancouver Island, Canada, right after my dad had returned from a hunting trip. I opened the door, looked up, and there, hanging upside down, was a once-beautiful deer, her fur and body drenched in blood. I remember shrieking and running as fast as I could. I made a vow then to try to stop the needless suffering of animals. I knew that I had a mission, and I wanted to make a difference.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

VANDANA SHIVA

Globalisation and climate change
In the era of climate change, India is at an energy crossroad
The latest report of U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, has confirmed that man-made climate change is threatening life on Earth. Temperatures are likely to rise by 1.10 C - 6.40 C by 2100. Sea levels will rise by 18-59 cm by 2100. Arctic ice could disappear in summers by 2100. Global warming would impact 5,018 glaciers in the Himalayas. Pundari Glacier is retreating at 13 metres a year, and the Gangetic glacier; the source of the Ganga is retreating at 30 metres annually. In two decades, Himalayan glaciers will shrink from 500,000 sq.km. to 100,000 sq.km.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Mercury Rising

Nature’s fury upon man-made habitat is often unleashed in the most unforgiving and bewildering attacks that for generations is revered, finally amalgamating into bed-time fables with real disaster and anecdotes of the past. But for man, the most prodigal of all inhabitants, there remain a few assaults that, like creepy wines, spread their tentacles through the shadows and eventually replicate those giant ‘natural’ killers, colossal and resolute. If one were to categorise the affects of rising mercury levels in our rivers, oceans and other water bodies, perhaps it’s the latter category that holds most disaster in the near future than sporadic onslaughts. Hydrargyrum (Hg), known to common folks as mercury, can spell disaster especially as methyl mercury which accumulates in sea water fish.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Warming up for doomsday?

From an apt mix of heat and water paving the way for new life forms to this present state of global warming, human needs and technology have consistently given the earth an increasingly deadly makeover ever since we started rolling the first wheel. Are we drawing our doom closer?

Mumbai Monsoon Madness
Although many fingers were pointed at Bombay Municipal Corporation for bad maintenance of sewage lines, it is unlikely that any amount of preparation could’ve helped on July 26 ’05. 37.2 inches of rain, all in a matter of 24 hours, brought the entire city and other parts of Maharashtra to a standstill. Such was the magnitude of the downpour that parts of Bengalooru and Rajasthan too were affected. Pune based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology did a study and found out that although the average rainfall in India remained pretty similar, rainfall patterns have changed drastically over a period of around 50 years. It showed increase in heavy rain events and its frequency and a decrease in moderate events, especially in central India.

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Friday, October 26, 2007

Environmental risks!

But now comes the most worrisome of all the findings of the Ceres survey. Analysts forecast that the impact on investors is going to be disastrous, especially for the long term ones, as most of the companies still do not provide any kind of climate risk disclosure to their investors, clearly ignoring the investors’ right to know the environmental risks attached with the company they are investing in. Astoundingly, nearly one third of the respondents of the Ceres survey did not even allow their responses to be made public. Unless global regulators make the inclusion of such details as mandatory, and unless such clear double-speak (of hiding details of environmental risks) invites legal action, Enron could well be the most ethical firm this side of the 21st century!

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Montreal Protocol

It says that G8 nations must pay 80% of this cost, out of which the US should pay 44%. But if George Bush would start doing things that he ‘must’ do, wouldn’t half the world’s problems be over? Or perhaps all! The imbroglio seems quite familiar, as the multilateral debate on climate change moves in the same direction of the WTO, where the entire process has reached, we mentioned it before, a stalemate! So is all lost? But is it too late for real action? Not quite, and thankfully so. A precedent has been established by the Montreal Protocol of 1989, which enforced a universal ban on chloroflouro carbons (CFCs). Research has shown that this landmark legislation has reduced the rate of global warming by 50% More recently, the EU has taken a landmark initiative this year. A deal has been signed by 27 leaders, which mandates a 20% cut in carbon emissions by 2020. Of course, every country has the flexibility to adopt its own means to the end. In fact, the EU is ready to reduce those emissions to 30% if the US and other developed countries join in.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

High potential real estate sector

With virtually every player wanting to iipmenter the high potential real estate sector, surendra explicates the differentiating factor of his enterprise, “Definitely, it’s all about the passion that you put into your work. It’s all about the experience that you have and we are actually the first to have created a township in India. While everyone was merely talking about the concept of a township, we actually went ahead and created a large scale township in India. People have created small colonies or enclaves, but we have executed it on a large scale, fully integrated township in Powai, Mumbai and in Thane in 1996, we started our second township. So, we have successfully executed two townships where we have residential complex, commercial complex, school, hospital, clubhouse, entertainment facility et al.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

‘ ETH ’ ICAL ANOMALY

Ethanol has been a highly touted new agiipme alternative. Ethanol is a bi-product of molasses extracted from sugar cane and large sugar companies are already engaged in its production. When ethanol is added to the normal fuel as a set percentage, it improves the combustion of the fuel and lowers emissions. According to the Energy Information Administration report, US, the cost of producing this fuel could be reduced by as much as 60 cents per gallon by 2015 using cellulosic conversion technology. Brazil is the leader in ethanol production, producing 15-16 billion litres of ethanol. It is investing $9 billion in new processing plants. The world’s largest company, US-based Archer Daniels Midlands boasts net sales of $11.4 billion (growth of 25% yoy) and net earnings of $362.9 million (growth of 4% yoy) for the nine months ended March 2007. Chairman & CEO Patricia A. Woertz stated that the company’s outlook on future opportunities remains quite strong. Equally strong, though, is the dilemma that if cars run on corn, what will people eat? Does it then remain resourceful enough?

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

The green Raja of our times

Raja epitomises hard-work, loyalty, dedication to duty and a fine mind ever ready to innovate
One doesn’t have to be a diehard environmentalist to head Ministry of Environment. But Andimuthu Raja, who was Union Minister for Environment and Forest till recently, has keen interest in the subject. So much so that within two years of his appointment, he brought out a comprehensive National Environment Policy (NEP) besides taking several steps for conservation of wild and endangered species like tigers & elephants. Raja also triggered off a series of legislative changes for management of environment and natural resources. He devolved some of his powers to give environment clearance to certain non-dangerous industrial projects to state governments. Now clearance of chemical, cement and aluminium industries only are left with the Union Environment Ministry. During his stint in the ministry, Raja formulated National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and set up Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) too.

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Protecting the environment

“There seems to be a great deal of interest in protecting the environment from the central government in China. There’s innovation around issues like green building & solar power. But China is also building a lot of coal plants. And in the province, rapid economic development and job creation take precedence over environmental protection. So the picture is very mixed,” said Marc Gunther, a senior writer at Fortune & the author of Faith & Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business. As the government is now starting to realise the importance of environmentally sustainable economic growth, so are the MNCs operating in the manufacturing capital of the world. “China has long represented the last frontier for MNCs to escape environmental regulations. Many took full advantage of the opportunity to pollute with reckless abandon. Result: Their reputations are now suffering! In the new world of transparency & accountability, there is no place for MNCs to hide,” adds Clark. Consequently, neither these MNCs nor Beijing can afford to brush the environmental malaise that is afflicting the nation under the carpet any more, because it is now beginning to show.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Rupee scales a record high...

The rupee surged up sharply against the US dollar and managed to touch a new nine-year high of 40.55/56 on fresh dollar selling, provoked by China’s decision to revise the Yuan as well as strong equity markets. The rupee started weak at 40.74/76 to a dollar at the inter bank foreign exchange (forex) market, but managed to surge up to a fresh nine-year high of 40.55/56 to a dollar in late morning deals, however, it ended the day at 40.70/71 per dollar. Forex dealers opine that the rupee rallied sharply as anticipated in response to China’s decision to widen the trading band on the Yuan and to eventually raise domestic interest rate

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Uppal’s Orchid – An Ecotel Hotel

Recipient of esteemed awards like Green Globe Environment Excellence Award at the World Travel Market 2003, London, and Commitment to Excellence Award for Environment at the 2006 Annual Convention of Leading Hotels of the World (LHW), the 10.5 acre expanse of Uppal’s Orchid unleashes environment-friendly luxuries. Uppal’s Orchid is a part of the renowned group of hotels – the Ecotels – that thrive on the five cornerstones of environmental responsibility called the ‘Globes’. Says Pushpinder Kumar, VPGM of Uppal’s Orchid, “We believe that luxury and environmental responsibility are not exclusive and balance between the two is achieved by being conscious about the needs of business while not ignoring the role expected by a corporate group towards environment.” So be it planting camphor plants near swimming pools to keep away mosquitoes, to reducing, re-using, and re-cycling natural resources, Uppal’s Orchid redefines luxury!

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