My CAN-I Thought Process!: India Rising Archives

June 01, 2006

The focus is on cutting unit costs - Lalu

Times Of India reports: Lalu Prasad Talks Shop with GE CEO Immelt, in true American fashion, came straight to the point asking for Lalu's focus areas. While business, as expected, took centerstage during the hour-long meeting, the Indian Railways CEO, Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:20 PM

May 09, 2006

Brand INDIA

IBEF ( India Brand Equity Foundation http://www.ibef.org/ ), an organization that started a couple of years back to rebrand the image of India has released an awesome video I AM INDIA. I wanted to do a video like that when Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:37 PM

March 12, 2006

The Rise of India

Coincidentally about a year ago I created a category 'India Rising' and now there is a video on ABC news: The Rise Of India. Forget about the outsider, as an insider I saw tremendous amount of energy, charged up young Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:38 AM

September 07, 2005

McKinsey Report on India Offshoring

The McKinsey Quarterly: Ensuring India's offshoring future provides the steps for Improving India's offshoring prospects: Raise the quality of university education Move beyond offshoring hot spots Improve the infrastructure Move beyond IT and software Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:42 PM

August 24, 2005

India Rising R&D Hub.....

ET-K@W Special Report-The Economic Times has a set of articles about India rising as R&D hub of the world. It is very gratifying to see India gradually but surely capturing the power of its intellect. I am proud to be Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:59 PM

August 21, 2005

Coca-Cola threatens to sue an Activist Photographer

Mr. Haksar, a leading international photographer and winner of the 2005 Cannes Silver Lion, has placed a large billboard in one of Chennai's busiest areas - one of India's largest cities - with his own "work (which) is solely Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:31 AM

July 08, 2005

India Unleashed

Download the presentation on India PPT Version: India Unleashed | Ourmedia PDF Version: Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:24 AM

May 03, 2005

Possible Worlds Tallest Tower

A computer-generated image of the proposed 160 floor Noida tower (near New Delhi) that will be the world's tallest if and when constructed. Source:Hindustan Times Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:11 PM

March 08, 2005

Small is beautiful for these not-so-big CEOs

The Economic Times writes about the not so big CEO's from India who made it big. They are ordinary men and women who chose to shed caste boundaries, who braved poverty, hunger and deprivation to chart their own path. And Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:21 PM

January 10, 2005

Rajesh Jain Reflects on Swadesh

Rajesh Jain shares his feelings about the movie Swadesh.Swades is about an India most of us don’t know – and probably don’t want to know. It is an India around us that is very different from us. We cannot get Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:39 AM

December 03, 2004

AIDS control: Manipur shows the way

Sify has an article AIDS control: Manipur shows the way, telling how Manipur succeeded in making a tremendous progress in controlling AIDS and how it is a model for the rest of the country. It’s, at best, mixed news for Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:27 PM

November 15, 2004

Peoples Education Society

I came across this Peoples Education society Institutions through comments of a visitor to my blog. Its looks like a really wonderful idealogy. Mission To provide students with a sense of history, an understanding of values and ethics, a commitment Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:55 AM

November 14, 2004

Cheap electricity through mini stations?

Less smoke for more power ASHOK B SHARMA Here, at last, is a solution to provide cheap electricity in rural areas. Mini-power stations can now be set up to cater to a cluster of villages. A new technology has been Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:51 AM

November 10, 2004

What the U.S. can learn from India's electronic voting machines

Via: Jayshree Remember the Cold War tale of Soviet and American scientists racing to solve the problem of writing in zero gravity? NASA spent a decade and millions of dollars developing the high-tech Astronaut Pen. The Soviets solved the problem Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:07 PM

October 03, 2004

The young ladies are part of the unknown Indian army reconstructing India as a more just society

Vaishnavi and Vandana were barely out of their teens when they set out on a life of service. In 1992, a crazed, nude woman ran up and down a Chennai street under the mid-day sun. As people either gawked or Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:09 PM

October 01, 2004

E-nabling India’s rural reaches

Via: World is Green Anand Parthasarthy from The Hindu visits Kuppam, the constituency of the Chandrababu Naidu, the previous chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. Naidu encouraged and promoted Kuppam as the testing ground for a large number of “IT for Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:32 AM

September 20, 2004

We want India in UNSC: Blair

British Prime Minister Tony Blair unequivocally condemned terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and strongly supported India's stand that the menace must end for the success of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan. At a press interaction after his 45-minute Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:59 PM

September 17, 2004

Bharti launches India fruit venture

Source: WorldisGreen.com » Bharti launches India fruit venture The BBC reports on a significant development. Bharti has launched a fruits venture with the Rothchilds of the UK. Indian telecoms giant Bharti is moving into the global fruit and vegetable market Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:16 PM

September 07, 2004

Indian Army Gets first Woman Lt General

General Punita Arora will become the first woman in the Indian Army to don the highest rank of Lt General when she takes over as Commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune next week. Arora, who joined the Army Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:31 PM

August 23, 2004

Infrastructure Sector Gets Us $ 9 Billion Leg-Up

Source: Core Sector Gets Us $ 9 Billion Leg-Up India’s critical infrastructure sector is being cranked up as never before. For the first time in the country’s history, nearly US $ 9 billion is being kept aside for lending by Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:39 PM

IIM joins Harvard forum

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, (IIM- Ahmedabad) has tied up with the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR), a students’ forum on issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region. The first Indian affiliate of HPAIR opened at IIM- Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:35 PM

Swadeshi Saras soars on debut

Like the crane it has been named after, India’s first indigenous multi-role light-transport aircraft, Saras, smoothly took to the grey skies over Bangalore and flew flawlessly for 20 minutes. The inaugural flight was cheered by scores of National Aerospace Laboratories Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:20 PM

August 18, 2004

Akku Yadav case: 5 women released on bail

Hours after they were remanded to judicial custody for a day, five women, allegedly involved in the lynching of notorious gangster Akku Yadav on August 13, were released on bail. A team of defence lawyers argued before district judge G Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:58 PM

August 03, 2004

India's coolest business ideas

In the current context, India has a fast growing market as far as the IT and IT-enabled services sectors are concerned. Of that, call centre project consultancy, systems and software such as Automatic Call Distribution, Interactive Voice Recognition, Computer Telephony Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:10 PM

July 09, 2004

Gandhigram - Transforming Rural India

Two events occurred in the 1940s that came together to create the many faceted Gandhigram. On Feb 2, 1946 the villagers of Chinnalappatti rioted near the railway lines to force the British authorities to stop a train heading for Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:14 AM

June 29, 2004

Pak flag hoisted in Karnataka, 14 held

Police have arrested 14 people for allegedly hoisting a Pakistani flag at a place of worship at Chinur village in the district. Police said all the detainees have been remanded to judicial custody till July nine by a court. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:16 PM

June 18, 2004

Is India Ready To Create Next M$

There is a new eco-system being put in place even as the Indian IT services and ITES sector continues to lure global companies. The seeds have been sown and the results are expected to manifest in the next 3-4 years. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:50 PM

June 16, 2004

NASA invites Indian students to design Moon city

A bunch of teenagers from Patiala will rub shoulders with NASA engineers and take up the formidable task of designing a city to be built on the Moon when they travel to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida next month. In Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:32 PM

June 11, 2004

G-8 game for Indias inclusion

The Group of Eight industrialised nations are considering opening doors of the elite club to include more states, including India and China, to reflect the growing importance of the two Asian economic giants. There is "certainly a case for including Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:30 PM

May 27, 2004

India Together

I have come across this site India Together: Indiatogether.org - The news that matters, which is really really good and covers all kinds of relavant issues with a unbiased attitude. Add this to your must read list. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:50 AM

May 25, 2004

Elango - Hero who transformed Panchayat

In a nation where collective finger pointing at politicians, grieving at the slowness of democracy and deriding India itself are fashionable, Rangaswamy Elango is an object lesson. He is an engineer for whom the outer world lay open. He Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:20 PM

May 18, 2004

Indian Blood Donars - Find/Register Blood Donars in your City

A letter from: IndianBloodDonors.com - Using Technology 2 Help Humanity Dear Friends , There are many patients needing blood everyday in various hospitals in your city, some patients are from your own city and some are from another city. At Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:08 AM

May 15, 2004

Anju jumps gold in Doha

Anju Bobby George sounded a warning to other Olympics long jump medal aspirants by leaping to a gold-winning distance of 6.82m at the Doha Super Grand Prix athletics meeting in Doha on Friday. According to information received here, the world Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:27 AM

May 11, 2004

Six million Indians seen travelling abroad this year

Source: India Brand Equity Foundation A growing wanderlust among an expanding breed of cash-flush Indians is seeing an unprecedented number of them visiting destinations from Southeast Asia to the Caribbean, sparking a boom in outward tourism and spreading cheer in Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:11 PM

May 05, 2004

Do IT firms give value for money?

Source: Do IT firms give value for money? - The Economic Times Excerpt: India’s huge pool of trained, English-speaking IT workers has perhaps heralded the first truly services revolution in the world where for once India is the star player. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:53 PM

India Now - All You Need To Know

Via Reuben Abraham @ Living in India â€¢ blogzine The India Brand Equity Foundation, set up by the Ministry of Commerce and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), has put up an excellent website called India Now to build accurate Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:14 PM

May 03, 2004

Internet through cable becomes cheaper in Orissa

Internet services through cable in Orissa have become cheaper with the state's only service provider announcing a cut in the cost of equipment like modems. Ortel Communication Ltd, which also provides Internet services through dial up, has made its service Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:06 AM

April 29, 2004

TV9 on Web - Sneha TV

I have been looking arround the presense of TV9 on the web, finally found that it is available as Sneha TV http://www.snehatv.com/. This is not a offical website of TV9, but Sneha TV provides TV9 casting in USA. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:41 PM

April 20, 2004

My Experience with Television in this trip

Inspired by Suhit's post World is Green : Suhit Anantula's Blog on Rural India: Television : An Engine of Change There has been much talk since the last round of Assembly elections of how people voted for bijli, sadak, pani Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:35 PM

April 19, 2004

Is Kerry hipocratic in telling 'Keep American Jobs In America'

John Kerry constantly attacks Bush for not doing enough to protect jobs. Incidentally, John Kerry’s wife Teresa Heinz Kerry owns the H.J. Heinz Company that manufactures a range of food products like ketchup, snacks and infant foods, with an annual Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:34 PM

March 20, 2004

Advice to Call Center Reps

I have been observing the BPO wave for the last one year and actually exeriencing the Call Center Quality of Service. After observing for a while and going through various good/bad experiences, I thought I will write a post giving Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:28 PM

March 17, 2004

IIM-A graduate prefers to start a primary school

Rather than joining the latest batch of managers drawing hefty salaries, a student of Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad has decided to serve the cause of primary education. Vardhan Kabra is the only candidate from the 2002-04 batch Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:11 PM

March 15, 2004

Infosys poses challenge to America

Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys, gave me a tour the other day of his company’s wood-paneled global conference room in Bangalore. It looks a lot like a beautiful tiered classroom, with a massive wall-size screen at one end and cameras Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:54 PM

Americans/Europeans etc.. - Moving to India for Jobs

That's when his Las Vegas-based company, Creative Healthcare Solutions, which provides Internet technology services to healthcare clients, started seeing jobs being awarded to companies in India and China. Instead of protesting against the offshoring of work that might have Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:55 AM

March 07, 2004

Modern India's most ambitious project - 64KM DAM

What is the Kalpasar project? It involves building a giant 64km dam across the Gulf of Khambhat, (it was called the Gulf of Cambay) from Ghogha in Bhavnagar district to Hansot in Bharuch district. It is an extraordinary project that Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:44 AM

March 04, 2004

How Bangalore is driving Globalisation 3.0

“The first era, from the late 1800s to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad. That was Globalization 1.0, and it shrank the world from a size large to a size Read More.......