Indianomics

Forbes magazine has published the richest Indians list. Not surprisingly, the list looks different from 2007. Not in terms of the people in it but the wealth they have. The wealth has reduced significantly. There has been quite a war between Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal for a while. The war continues. Mukesh Ambani has [...]

After Preity Zinta and King XI Punjab, Mohali has one more thing to cheer about. Indian School of Business (ISB) will be coming up in Mohali. Academic year will start in 2012. ISB Hyderabad is a very famous B School and could easily figure in the top 5 Business schools of India. But, ISB is [...]

I got an email forward today, which tells you about what happened with Lehman Brothers. It also tells you what happens  if there was a company like Lehman Brothers in India. Go ahead and read it. No goodies for guessing which Indian company is that.
I am posting it in its entirety without any editing or [...]

ASSOCHAM has published a report that post-diwali there will be 25-30% of job loss. That report has received a lot of criticism from public and the government. After government has reprimanded ASSOCHAM, it withdrew the report. However, the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) remained. Couple of days later Prime Minister Singh has met with India [...]

Global Telecoms Business, a telecom trade magazine has published the top 100 influential telecom leaders of the world. 8 Indians have made it to the list. Srinath Narasimhan of Tata Communications made it to the top 10. Other telecom leader to feature in the list is Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel.
List of Indians featured along [...]

IRCTC website was a leap forward in bringing the ticket booking online and making it easier for millions of travelers. That is a little old now we need more. Not necessarily from the Indian railways though. I have blogged about Thomascook and the way we find tickets availability. Now we can get something more. We [...]

ISRO will soon launch Bhuvan (meaning earth) which is a Indian version of google Earth and posibily better. The hang over of Chandrayan is not yet over and India has one more thing to cheer about. ISRO’s Bhuvan is all set to become a Google Earth beater, at least in India. Bhuvan can zoom up [...]

Reliance Communications (ADAG) group will launch a low-cost smart phone. By low, we mean in the smart phone range. The price would be around 10000 rupees. US based technology firm AnyDay helped design the phone and the phone will be mass produced in China (where else). The phone is packed with all the PDA features [...]

Arun Kapoor, CEO of Big TV (ADAG) has resigned from the company. He joined BigTV in July and, I think largely responsible for BigTV’s successful launch. He worked with Dish TV (Zee group). That is 2 DTH services in a row. Dish TV is the most popular of the services. It has just crossed 4 [...]

Bharti (Airtel) has unveiled a new logo and vision. It wants to generate $10 bn revenue by 2010. It also wants to grow its non-telecom revenues from 15% to 50%. Bharti wants to focus and grow in non-telecom sectors. It already has a presence in insurance sector via a joint venture with France’s AXA. [...]