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Abhishek Khaitan’s Radico Khaitan is now the largest local player in the...
Image: Amit VermaLalit Khaitan (L), chairman, with Abhishek Khaitan, MD of Radico Khaitan In business, it helps to keep your ears to the ground. For Abhishek Khaitan, that meant doing the rounds...
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Arun Jain is bifurcating Polaris to make it a billion-dollar business by N.S....
Image: Raju Patil for Forbes IndiaArun Jain, Chairman and CEO, Polaris Financial TechnologyA run Jain hasn’t always had the best of luck. In December 2002, the founder and CEO of mid-tier software...
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Lessons From Detroit’s Demise -
Tanzeel Merchant Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing last week sent violent shockwaves throughout the municipal bond market in North America. The New York Times, in a fulsome story on the issue,...
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View ArticleMany Sri Lanka state agency accounts disclaimed by auditors
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View ArticleSri Lanka Allianz unit launches investment linked insurance
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Why people live in Mumbai's dangerous buildings
Braj Bhushan Chaubey lives in a 'dangerous' buildingMore than 100 people have died after the buildings they were living in collapsed in India's financial capital, Mumbai, between April and June this...
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LG finds a way to keep cool in power cuts with Evercool refrigerator range...
LG India MD Soon Kwon with the powercut EverCool range of refrigeratorsIndia can be a very challenging market for manufacturers of electronic goods. From extreme weather conditions to peculiar user...
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Did the Gujarat riots create Indian Mujahideen? Delhi Police says no...
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Mark Zuckerberg gets $3.8 billion richer, quickly--Facebook's founder earns...
Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gotten the best of his naysayers who questioned whether his hugely popular social network could compete in the mobile world, and now he has the bank balance to...
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Striking diplomats vow major visa shutdown
Striking foreign service officers are withdrawing all services at Canada's 15 biggest visa processing centres abroad starting Monday, following a failed attempt to go to arbitration to settle the...
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Keeping track of railway history NAHLA NAINAR
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Tree bay: Trees that heal Parshathy. J. Nath
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Making the waters link P. Anima
Illustration by Satheesh Vellinezhi When the British mulled over having a waterway between Cochin and Beypore (A weekly column on the region’s past culled from historical documents.) The plans were...
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How can big companies keep the sparks of innovation?
By Nastaran Tavakoli-Far BBC World Service Jeff Immelt: "I can't even count how many failures I've had in 31 years" How do big companies that have been around for years or even decades continue...
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Film chronicles the hunt for the perfect dosa in NYC
The short film Dosa Hunt follows a group of young men searching for the perfect Indian crepe in New York City – tackling issues of cultural identity on the way. The dosa is a crispy, savoury pancake...
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Successful executives and the four-hour sleep myth By Bryan Borzykowski
Successful executives often 'snack' on sleep (Thinkstock)For Gregory McKee, getting a good night’s sleep is as important as eating right and exercising regularly. If he doesn’t get eight hours of...
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Russia: Fleet refuels away from base 'to avoid tax'
News from Elsewhere......as found by BBC Monitoring15:01 UK time, Friday, 26 July 2013The fleet has to cruise out of town to fill up on fuelRussia has stopped fuelling the famous Black Sea Fleet at...
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Egypt crisis: Huge rival rallies as Morsi is accused
The BBC's Jim Muir says the allegations make Mr Morsi's detention formalHuge rallies by supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are continuing into the night with five people...
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