Columbia University Monday announced the launch of the latest Columbia Global Center for South Asia in Mumbai in order 'to deepen its global perspective and expand knowledge' particularly about the country and also about the region.
The year 2010 failed to deliver on the promises that it's first few months held. It might not have been quite the annus horribilis that 2008 was, but the last few months have shown some rather ominous trends. Let's just hope that these trends reverse in 2011. It certainly doesn't have the makings of a good year.
Every financial crisis has political and geo-political consequences.
With the economy of the US currently in a tailspin, the effects are far-reaching, so it's especially wise, at this point, to take a good look at how you spend, and where your hard-earned money is going.
If India, China and the United States are to prosper in a globalised economy, a joint, cooperative transformation of their higher education systems was imperative, believes B M Naik, former principal of the engineering school at the Guru Gobind Singh College in Nanded, Maharashtra."To bring about this transformation from one level to the high level and to the global level and quality standard education, what is most important is that these ideas must move fast," he said.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K), has decided to commemorate the contribution made by late Professor C K Prahalad, by setting up an endowment fund in his name.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K), has decided to commemorate the contribution made by late Professor C K Prahalad, by setting up an endowment fund in his name. The aim of this fund is to globalise Indian thought leadership through knowledge creation and dissemination.
The sudden manner in which the Centre has chosen to address the demand for a separate state of Telangana, carved out of Andhra Pradesh, raises an important question for corporate India regarding the future of Hyderabad.
Professor P Radhakrishnan, a sociologist from the Madras Institute of Development Studies, draws the difference between the LTTE and the ordinary Tamils of Sri Lanka.
India's GDP growth for the current fiscal is expected to slow down to 4.8 per cent, a UN report has said, warning that the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to result in significant adverse economic impacts globally. The UN 'Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 2020: Towards sustainable economies' said that Covid-19 is having far-reaching economic and social consequences for the region, with strong cross-border spillover effects through trade, tourism and financial linkages.
Nothing, according to Deepak Lal. He argues that the contemporary attempts to control immigration in the US and UK are not nativist.
Recession is an ugly word. And one of the fallouts of globalisation is the ripple effect that the state of one economy has on multiple others, whether they are directly or indirectly connected. With the economy of the US currently in a tailspin, the effects are far-reaching, so it's especially wise, at this point, to take a good look at how you spend, and where your hard-earned money is going.
Addressing the first annual conference of the chief secretaries, Singh reaffirmed Centre's commitment to assist States in everyway it can.
Democracy, nation-state and globalisation can't go together; we can have at the most two at one time, says Dani Rodrik.
Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), a premiere communications management institute, will be presenting a historic international conference on Hinglish.
Workshop on international business etiquette and fine dining by Sabira Merchant.
Now that the rupee has a symbol that is on its way to global recognition, the time has come for the government to take the next logical step: globalise the way money is counted in India.
The Malayalam movie directed by debutant Jayaaraj Vijay is a rare socially responsible effort in these dark ages.
What might be useful is targeted assistance to those sectors and individuals that are disproportionately affected, suggests Mihir S Sharma.
At the Mumbai launch of his latest book, The Third Pillar: How Markets And States Leave The Community Behind, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan served up an interesting mix that included Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, privileged families and a strong dose of commonsense economics.
In a development that may explain the disappearance of several Britons of Indian origin during visits to India, an investigation report on BBC says British Asians have been hiring killers in India to target their friends and family.
"Anyone seeking to teach tomorrow's business leaders of India should reject globalisation of hate and racism, not facilitating it," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a leading Jewish NGO at the United Nations.
No Money Marketing shows how an emerging brand can spot and tap into its marketing ecosystem of all stakeholders, and compete successfully with established brands for market share.
Predicting a gloomy economic future, a top United Nations trade and development agency today said the governments still have a long way to go to tide over the financial crisis.
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) announces admission to the following Post Graduate Degree Programmes.
According to the report, on the MNC R&D ecosystem titled 'attrition, hiring and salary increase 2013' India currently hosts 1,031 MNC R&D centers, growing at around 4 per cent year or year, with an overall employment base of 2,44,000 growing at about 11 per cent year on year.
'When the youth population is so large, in a globalised world, they look for opportunities. Are there enough opportunities for the youth in India?' 'The idea of affirmative action has to be creating capability. All individuals have potential. Unfortunately, there is capability deprivation because of the State's inaction.' 'Nation building has been a disaster in India mainly because we lacked the work ethic compared to the US and European countries.'
Like many other Indian companies, the Tata group too has globalised in the past decade. It is a testimony to the success of Indian enterprise in the global marketplace that many of them have done well, in the face of severe competition.
Cisco and Satyam had entered into a joint venture in 2007 to focus on healthcare management solutions. As a part of this announcement, Cisco had also lined up an additional investment of $100 million, targeting innovation.
Prime Minister Modi made a strategic blunder of Nehruvian proportions -- presuming no war can happen now, and the Chinese won't be a military threat and risk their economic interests, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Ukraine's state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the Ukrainian-Polish border had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting.
Describing the chartered accountants as 'the watchdogs of new corporate world', he said, 'the dynamism of globalised capital market and emergence of knowledge based economy has posed major challenges to accurate and speedy financial reporting.' Addressing a diamond jubilee celebrations of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, he said role of the accounting profession is also critical in lending credibility to the financial markets.
COVID-19 has accomplished what the UN failed to do in the last 75 years by making mankind rally around a mask of unity, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday announced that American Paul Krugman has won the Nobel economics prize "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."
'If the epidemic is sharply contained in a month or two, we have a huge buying opportunity. 'If not, we are staring at a serious economic crisis, the contours of which we are totally unaware of,' warns Debashis Basu.
Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi has introduced an interactive art installation "Once Upon a Place," which allows participants to listen to the stories of immigrants who moved to New York through the receivers of old pay phones --once a common sight on city streets.
Joint audits and inspections by the ICAI/DCA are critical if the system has to work.
An increasing number of professionals are opting for the flexibility and convenience on online courses. And here's why.
In Globality*, authors Harold L Sirkin, James W Hemerling and Arindam K Bhattacharya from Boston Consulting Group, show how, over the past two decades, a range of corporations from the developing world have begun to disrupt traditional paradigm of development and tilted the balance of competition in their favour with their predilection for 'rapid-fire innovation'.
Terming terror infrastructure in Pakistan as the 'greatest danger' to the entire world, India on Monday said efforts made by the international community to deal with the situation are 'not enough' and that New Delhi will use 'all measures' necessary to tackle the problem.
