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India's burgeoning entertainment industry loses as much as $ 4 billion and 800,000 direct jobs each year due to counterfeiting and piracy, a latest study says. The study -- The effects of counterfeiting & piracy on India's entertainment industry -- was prepared by Ernst & Young India. It was commissioned as part of the USIBC-FICCI Bollywood-Hollywood Initiative, which promotes the sustainable growth & convergence underway between the entertainment industries of the US & India
Sebi's mandate restraining mutual funds, stock brokers, and other intermediaries from associating with finfluencers who do not come under the Sebi ambit will impact the earnings of finfluencers through sponsorships, tie-ups, or referral links, as these may dry up due to the restrictions.
'I found it unbelievable that L&T said 45,000 jobs were waiting to be filled because of unavailability of suitable skillsets.' 'So, when the Opposition sweepingly says there are no jobs, I'm sorry... I'm not saying it's raining jobs, but there are jobs. The (skill) gap has to be bridged.'
The Indian film industry joined hands with Hollywood on Wednesday to counter piracy.
There is a case for more stringent evaluation of CSR plans based on voluntary allocations, but a rule-based approach might be more effective.
Already India is a global leader in high technology. The nuclear deal will end India's nuclear isolation and enable India to become a global champion of the nuclear renaissance, combating global climate change, USIBC President Ron Somers said.
The lawmakers lacked imagination, he said.
The International Cricket Council has come under fire for having different rules and regulations for the two semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not taking along an industry delegation to the US but top representatives of India Inc are likely to travel to New York and Washington to be part of the power-packed business meetings and receptions being hosted for him.
Prahlad Chhabria, chief of Finolex Group, has been honoured with a silver platter in recognition of his contribution to 'entrepreneurship' at the prestigious Institute of Directors in London. He also released his autobiography 'There's no such thing as self-made man' on the ocassion. About 220 dignitaries from the diplomatic, political and business community attended the function hosted by SriChand and Gopichand Hinduja, chairman & president respectively of the Hinduja Group.
Vice-President Cheney to address US-India Business Council.
The Washington-based USIBC represents some 350 American companies, including many in Fortune 500 list, like Boeing, Wal Mart, PepsiCo and General Motors and Lockheed Martin that do business in India.
USIBC officials attended the White House Signing Ceremony to witness President Bush's endorsement of the legislation passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the US Congress on December 9, 2006.
Somers said, "Number one, the message has to be that now we are living in a global economy and that a knowledge partnership with India is enabling our American companies team with their Indian partners to remain globally competitive."
This will also help test the effectiveness of preventing the entry of Nipah in target cells.
Counterfeiting and piracy cost India' s entertainment industry a whopping Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) besides gobbling up more than 8 lakh direct jobs every year.
Reaching a consensus might also get tougher, as already seen with issues like inclusion of natural gas in GST and imposition of a sugar cess, both central proposals being resisted.
The US-India Business Council has hailed American cooperation in India's first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-I saying it marks the beginning of a new era of trust and partnership between the two countrys in the field of space exploration.
The uncertainty over the fate of the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill in Parliament has caused a considerable amount of concern to members of the United States-India Business Council, as some of them had lobbied feverishly in the US Congress to get the agreement approved.USIBC President Ron Somers voiced his concerns at an interaction with Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, during her six-day visit to the United States
With the reality of coalition politics staring the BJP in its face, this was inevitable, points out Ramesh Menon.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the upcoming visit will affirm the deep and close partnership between the United States and India.
If it continues to do well economically, develops a large manufacturing sector, gains in technological heft, builds a more capable defence industry, improves its human development indicators, becomes more of a trading nation, and has greater internal cohesion. In short, it is a work in progress, suggests T N Ninan.
The meetings with the investors at New York, according to sources, are being organised by the US-India Business Council. The USIBC is the premier business advocacy organization representing America's top companies investing in India, joined by global Indian companies, promoting economic reforms with an aim to deepen trade and strengthen commercial ties.
The Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal got tributes from the US-India Business Council.
Participating in the 150-minute long debate on Thursday, Chairman of the UK-India Business Council Lord Karan Bilimoria congratulated Lord Paul on his appointment as the Deputy Speaker of the House and said that Non-Resident Immigrants in Britain were now reaching the top positions in every field.
Canada has started stressing on education as a trade catalyst with colleges and universities traveling to India and other countries in increasingly large numbers for recruiting students and faculty, signing agreements with foreign universities to work in close partnerships, opening satellite campuses in India, and offering joint degrees.
'The focus of the legislation will be to minimise user harm and increase the accountability of platforms, while also promoting innovation.'
The Singur fiasco, and the recent Vedic Village mishap, have created a negative image for the state, said Kevin Mc Cole, chief operating officer, UK India Business Council.
Besides addressing a high-level meeting of the US-India Business Council at Washington on June 17, Sharma will hold discussions with the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. During his three-day engagements, the commerce and industry minister would meet US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and US trade representative Ronald Kirk.
Indian companies, led by the Tata group, Essar and HCL Technologies, among others, have created more than 30,000 jobs and made large investments in the United States, a joint report of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the US India Business Council said.
"The N-deal is not only the highest visible symbol of cooperation between India and the United States, it represents a new turn -- it is a very special cooperation."
'The prime minister's announcement of a nation-wide shutdown was eloquent, but should have been more clearly phrased to avoid police overreach.' 'Migrant labour should have been allowed adequate notice and transport options to get home,' notes Rahul Jacob.
The slated festival is part of advocacy efforts by USIBC for American imports of mango from India.
As a board member, he will help USIBC provide strategic direction to US and Indian firms seeking bilateral investment opportunities and partnerships.
Ramachandran's support in the council has been reduced to a few members and if some are to be believed he can be removed from his post before or during the AGM on December 14.
The specter of how the Munambam issue was exploited during the November by-elections is proof of the price Kerala is paying for its emergent politics. Controversies become the stuff of slow-burn and brinkmanship. The former promises mileage; the latter searches for an advantage, notes Shyam G Menon.
Putin made these remarks on Thursday at a forum in Moscow organised by Russia's Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI).
Indian mangoes are all set to tickle the taste buds of Americans with the Bush administration clearing the way for exports to the US this harvest season, which would give farmers here access to the global market.
