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| September 28, 2004 |
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'IT refund will soon go directly to your bank'
The IT department is into computerisation and reform, and we are committed to making the taxpayer's life easy, says Urvashi Saxena, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai.
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| September 16, 2004 |
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'A million telematics jobs in India soon'
Globally, IT and automotive together are a $4.5 trillion industry, and telematics forms a big part of this. Telematics is set to grow in a big way and can create a million-plus jobs in India over the next 5 years, says Prof Sadagopan.
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| September 09, 2004 |
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'India has the innate ability to glocalize'
'India is developing call centres and Saudi Arabia is developing madrassas. One is calling the world, in a perfect accent, the other is calling God, in only one language.'
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| August 11, 2004 |
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'Today, job famine causes food famine'
'We must increase the livelihood security of the poor by giving opportunities for assured remunerative employment,' says Dr M S Swaminthan.
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| August 06, 2004 |
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'Firms must have more autonomy'
The aim is to make compliance easier, remove redundant provisions and add greater flexibility in rule-making.
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| July 30, 2004 |
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'I am not close to Ramesh Gelli'
GTB's main problem was its exposure to the capital markets. Consequent to over-exposure to the capital markets in 2001, non-performing assets was one of the factors that worked against us.
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| July 27, 2004 |
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My career as a banker is over: Gelli
Ramesh Gelli, then 37, was the youngest chairman in Indian banking industry when he headed Vysya Bank in 1983. Now 58, he plans to retire from banking for ever.
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| July 20, 2004 |
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'We will hire 4,000 this year'
In the last two years we have been growing faster than the rest of the industry. That's why our appetite for more people to serve our customers is very high now, says Cognizant CEO Lakshmi Narayanan.
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| July 12, 2004 |
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'No news is good news'
On the other hand, if you also look, it was disappointing to note that, to breach the digital divide, nothing was done in terms of penetrating IT and BPO to the second and third tier cities.
'India has growth potential'
The big story over the next 10-20 years is going to be the economic growth of major emerging markets like India, Brazil, Indonesia.
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| July 05, 2004 |
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'Let the market go to hell!'
'We need not worry about the market. If we do the right things, the market will come around,' says economist Raja Chelliah.
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| June 28, 2004 |
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'I like PC, the FM most'
As a common citizen, I am concerned about the lowering of interest rate on bank deposits since most people who do not want to speculate are dependent only on the interest income, says Nalini Chidambaram.
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| June 10, 2004 |
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'The real issue is not privatisation'
'As long as the government does not want to let go of the public sector companies they will not get value for their shares and the companies will grow in such a competitive environment. It will be a national loss,' says G V Ramakrishna.
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| June 09, 2004 |
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'Divestment money wasn't used for rural development'
'All the money went into various government expenditures -- on security, on staff, etc. Capital assets of the government have been sold to meet revenue expenditure,' says G V Ramakrishna, former Chairman, Divestment Commission.
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| May 19, 2004 |
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'We are not against economic reforms'
'We want reforms to end poverty, illiteracy and improve the health conditions of millions of people. We want reforms to ensure that there are jobs for the millions of unemployed youth,' says CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan.
Growth rate could shift to higher trajectory: Reddy
RBI Governor Y V Reddy said the central message of the credit policy was that we could be continuing with the growth rate or there could be a upward shift in the trajectory.
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| May 14, 2004 |
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No crony capitalism: Sitaram Yechury
CPI (M) politburo member, Sitaram Yechury in an interview with Business Standard said that the people's welfare, and not crony capitalism, will be the priority of the reforms process.
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| May 03, 2004 |
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I was never ambitious: Nandan Nilekani
We have a chance to build a new generation company and aspire for global leadership in our business and that is an exciting challenge, says the Infosys CEO.
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