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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Media marauders

The newsmakers are the news
Frequent assaults on scribes covering the Sri Lanka-LTTE conflict have triggered outrage among both local and international media rights groups. On March 14 morning a miscreant, wielding an iron club, ambushed Anurasiri Hettige as he waited for a bus in a Colombo suburb. Hettige became the fifth employee of the state television corporation Rupavahini to be attacked or threatened in the last three months.
Media rights groups say the attacks are linked to the December 27 incident that saw government minister Mervyn Silva storming into Rupavahini and abusing senior staff. Silva, who was upset by a news programme, had then allegedly been assaulted and daubed in paint by angry Rupavahini employees.
But Poddala Jayantha, secretary of the working journalists association, claimed that the authorities had failed to identify the assaulters, and instead indiscriminately targeted all Rupavahini staff. Soon after the Rupavahini incident unidentified goons launched a vicious midnight raid on the house of another journalist, Jayantha.Continue....


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

China allowed their currency to appreciate

As far as trade is concerned, Asian internal trade (exports), excluding China, increased from 25.2% to a meagre 26.4% from 1996-2001 to 2005-06; & in case of imports, from 24.4% to 26.5% for the same time period. Even China’s share in exports with countries like Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea & Singapore has decreased over a period over 10 years from 1996 to 2006. Since China has over the years replaced a number of emerging market economies in the markets of advanced industrial countries, China has a very crucial place in the world economy & exercises a significant influence on global trade. As evident from the graph (below right), China’s trade with the US & the EU has grown phenomenally, so has the deficit of these countries (which China shrewdly achieved by keeping its currency pegged to the US dollar).

After much coercion from the yankees, China allowed their currency to appreciate. Did it work? Last year, the US ran a trade deficit of $230 billion with China (and an overall deficit of $800 odd billion). Horrifyingly, despite the currency juggling, according to the recent data available, the US deficit with China has already reached $76.3 billion in this year till April, 18.5% more than the corresponding period of the previous year. Same is the case with the European Union. Figures show that EU’s trade deficit is on course to reach €170 billion this year. On the other hand, China had a global trade surplus in the month of May of $22.4 billion – 73% up from May 2006. According to the estimates of Mark Williams, analyst with Capital Economics, China is on course to have a surplus of $320 billion in 2007.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Make oil & Gas supplies consumer & climate friendly

Labayendu Mansingh, former director general of foreign trade, has being appointed to head the Board. Other members of the board are LK Singhvi, former chief Make oil & Gas supplies consumer & climate friendlycommissioner of Income Tax in Delhi, BS Negi, former director business development of GAIL & Sudha Mahalingam, a noted academician & energy expert.


The board’s agenda is well defined in the Act. “The protection of consumer interest will be paramount for the board. We will ensure that the policies are implemented in letter and spirit by all parties concerned,” said Sudha Mahalingam, one of the members of the newly constituted board, in an exclusive chat with B&E. Apart from keeping consumers in the mind, the Board will also concentrate on creating a competitive environment in the Petroleum & Natural Gas sector. The quest to meet India’s growing energy needs and ensuring un-interrupted supplies do not result in destruction of the environment, should always remain on the minds of the Board members.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Microsoft sizes up!...adopts the low cost route in India

The PC will include Windows, Encarta, Student 2007 & specialised education solutions from a host of key technology partners. Apart from the budget PC, Microsoft has also announced the launch of Microsoft sizes up!...MSN IQ Beta Education Channel. Through this channel, students will be able to access their curriculum on the Internet, avail online tutoring & coaching for competitive exams & also get access to referencing & online counseling. Initially, Microsoft would roll out its budget PCs & education channel in Bangalore & Pune, later on the programme will be launched throughout India. “It is imperative for technology to be relevant & accessible. Only when we meet these criteria, will the adoption of technology grow exponentially. And this is exactly what we seek to deliver through Microsoft ’s Unlimited Potential,” says Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India.

Well, through its recent educative initiatives, Microsoft is surely trying to indicate its seriousness towards the Indian market. However, it is evident that the sole aim of Microsoft is to extend its market reach & its concerns about India are (as always) inspired by moolah.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The Gladiator’s Curse

He was considered the Sam Walton of India, and undeniably, Kishore Biyani had set the organised retail pulse racing across the nation. Pantaloon’s expansion spree had continued unabated and its financials only got better over time. But has Pantaloon miscalculated by investing more than required in an industry where previous sales forecasts are coming to naught?

The feeling is chilling... to be a gladiator, standing there all alone, under the glaring eyes of innumerable vicarious spectators, for whom the excitement is not when you kill the lions, but morbidly, when the lions devour you and feed on you after a thorough mauling. And what if you succeed in surviving? They’ll get in more lions, change the rules, and even take away your sword and armour just to be sure. That is the gladiator’s curse, and that seems to be precisely the situation that Kishore Biyani, the CEO of Future group finds himself in. An industry that was supposed to be protected till time immemorial by the government, a customer base that was supposed to grow exponentially, consumer’s purchasing power that was expected to simply rise and rise...and many more such previously taken-for-granted factors have simply fallen fl at on their faces.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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