Do we have a road safety policy?

What happens on the roads is a key indicator of the state of a nation’s health. In India, the number of people killed on the roads in a year is 10 times that of those who die in natural calamities. This is an astonishingly high number. Many of those killed are in the most productive age group of 20 to 40. Why does this happen? Do we have a road safety policy? What of the future?

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Who says cash is king? We do, so do millions more

In the top 10 list, according to Cash EPS, there are two players from the transport equipment sector and two representatives from the oil & gas sector. The other sectors that have made their way into the top-ten list are transport services, capital services, consumer durables, agriculture and metal, metal products and mining. Lakshmi Machinery Works tops the ranking even if we break down the rankings year wise. If we consider Cash EPS for the FY 2005-06, the list below the leader undergoes a slight change.

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Charge of the ‘Zee’lous crusader

If there is one Indian media company that has managed to hold its ground amidst a whirlwind of foreign competition, it has to be Zee Tele films. This David among the Goliaths has always dared to expand its horizons under the able leadership of Chairman Subhash Chandra. And it’s this pan-segment presence, which has done the trick for Zee as it emerges number 1 in the media & publishing sector in the B&E Power 100.

The year was 1992 when Zee launched India’s first private entertainment channel Zee TV, which became an instant rage. The group has a string of other firsts to its credit, prominent being first Hindi cinema channel (Zee Cinema), first 24 hour Hindi News Channel (Zee News), first to foray into regional space and pioneers of Direct to Home (DTH) sector. Says Subhash Chandra of Zee’s achievements, “Zee has created history by changing television viewing in India. The challenge that a trailblazer faces is to live up to its own high precedents.”

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The three musketeers!

Being number one is not all about achieving a milestone. Nay, it’s not. It’s all about moving on and achieving greater heights! Honours such as ‘Best Wireless Service Provider’ (conferred by Frost & Sullivan in 2006) and a place amongst the top ten performing global IT companies by Business Week are just trailers that portray the dreams that Sunil, Rajan and Rajesh Bharti Mittal have woven for their organisation! appreciate that being a leader in this dynamic business environment is all about taking advantage of the externalities, improving operational efficiency, holding tight onto one’s market share and of course, giving back to the shareholders what they deserve! The telecom operator with its GSM subscriber base of 25.65 million (according to figures of COAI, August 2006) is clearly the market leader with a hold over 30.6% of the booming Indian GSM market (which has86.62 million users). Its closest competitors – Hutchison and state-owned BSNL – command a lower 23.16% and 22.41% market share, respectively.

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Prithvi Information Ltd.

Prithvi was been ranked 19 amongst the top 20 software exporters in India for the year 2003. For a small sized company, their big plus is that they are not dependent on any single client for a big chunk of their revenues and the largest client just contributes 4% of revenues,” adds Manan, a Financial Analyst from a leading investment banking firm.

Prithvi Information Solutions Limited (PISL) was founded by 33 year old Madhavi Vuppalapati, a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University after working on independent projects on a part time basis for more than half a decade in the United States. Madhavi always believed that going solo was the way to go, and thus established her very own enterprise in partnership with cofounder and brother V. Satish Kumar. Small is beautiful... right?

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For this, you have not focused on the ‘sit & dine’ segment?

Our key focus is on the delivery segment because I believe where both in the couple are working, they won’t prefer to eat outside as it involves a lot of time & parking hassles. But we are also focusing on the ‘sit & dine’ segment and in fact, the 30 stores we opened in the last two years, all have a space to eat for 35 to 40 people. But yes, we don’t focus on the dine segment much so there’s not much cutlery in our shops and there’s self-service.

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Nokia "N" Series

What’s in a name? Everything! Ask cellular handset makers in India, and the answer’s bound to be just that! And not without reason. The eye-popping success of the Moto RAZR series in India that is pulling up the sagging fortunes of the American handset-maker in the country, is a case in point. Lloyd Mathias, Director (Marketing), Motorola (India) believes that: “People do not understand confusing numbers and fundamentally, names arouse more response from target audiences.” The rave response to Motorola’s Moto RAZR, Moto PEBL, Moto SLVR, and the more recent, Moto ROKR series is reportedly also inspiring other handset makers to abandon their penchant with boring numbers and alphabets to name their snazzy models.

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America’s Top Ten

Forbes magazine’s latest list of richie-rich Americans is out, and there’s good cheer all around. For starters, this year, for the very first time since the rankings started, just about everyone in The Forbes 400 (of wealthiest Americans) has at least $1 billion in their booty. What’s more, the total net worth of America’s richest has climbed up the value chain: all the way to $1.25 trillion, up $120 billion from last year. And here’re the usual suspects: starting out at the top is, obviously, Microsoft’s Bill Gates (no surprises there – whenever someone tries to take over the numero uno position, Bill has a way of nudging the other person out!) with $53 billion. Next in line is value investor Warren Buffet, with $46 billion in his kitty (of course most of it will be given away to the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation!).

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