Apple OS X Mountain Lion release date in July: important features
Apple OS X Mountain Lion release date is finally set for July. Priced at just $19.99, OS X Mountain Lion for Mac is straight from the wish-list that brings together the most wanted features of the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch on a single platform. Announced at the WWDC 2012, Apple is on the [...]
Planning Commission released new data which has made many insecure. The new report showed the poverty line lowered, thus making many fear that they would now be considered above poverty line, hence devoid of the food subsidies, if they spent more than the stipulated RS 28 per day. However, commission chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia was [...]
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Nvonews.com New hopes for the economic condition of the US have arisen after fresh data revealed that jobless claims have reached a seven-month low and the permits for future home construction has drastically gone up. This improved picture of American economy bolstered growth news. It was also aided by the finding that employers hired more [...]
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The current financial crisis has seen unprecedented levels of European involvement in the affairs of troubled countries. German and French leaders have forced Greece to scrap a referendum form a unity government and they even got the man they wanted to be the PM. Italy is implementing tough austerity measures under EU prodding while Berlusconi [...]
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Forbes magazine has come out with the data that the top 100 richest Indians have lost about 20% of their wealth this year. This blow comes despite the Indian economy having a growth rate above 7.5%. The financial magazine further reported that where last year the top 10 richest were collectively worth $150 billion, this [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Former communications minister Dayanidhi Maran will be questioned soon, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official said, adding the case against him was “stronger than” that against his successor A. Raja. Maran’s brother Kalanithi, Maxis owner T. Ananda Krishnan and Astro All Asia Networks CEO Ralph Marshall will also be quizzed, the [...]
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NEW DELHI: What are the things you can get for 32 bucks? Let me see: you can have a single piece of shawarma, (or) you can have a half litre of coke, or maybe you would like a couple of gulab jamuns? Yeah, one of any of these things. You certainly can’t have a cup [...]
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New Delhi (India): Following are the highlights of Economic Survey 2010 – 11: • Economy expected to grow at 8.6% in 2010-11 and 9 per cent in next fiscal • Growth broad based with rebound in Agriculture, continued momentum in manufacturing and private services • Fundamentals strong with Savings & Investments up, exports rising rapidly [...]
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R.P. Singh writes: The resource requirement in a developing economy for investment usually exceeds the availability of resources that could be domestically generated. In India, the Gross Domestic Investment have historically been short of the Gross Domestic Savings by around 1.2 to 1.3 per cent of GDP on an annual basis. Countries, therefore, encourage the inflow of capital from abroad [...]
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Ashok Handoo writes: As we move into the New Year, it is time to take stock of the state of our economy-the achievements in 2010 and the challenges we face in 2011.The most outstanding achievement has been the recovery from the economic slowdown that we have been facing since 2008, as a consequence of the [...]
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Ashok Handoo writes: The forward march of the Indian economy is continuing on the expected lines. The comfortable indicators promise to drive the economy out of the slowdown it faced in 2008-9, when the growth rate dipped to 6.7 per cent, after experiencing a 9 per cent growth for five consecutive years. The most gratifying [...]
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Ashok Handoo writes: Judging by what the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee told the Economic Editors Conference in New Delhi recently, the Indian economy is gaining momentum by the day and is on track to achieve the pre- economic crisis status soon. He justified his statement by quoting statistics. He was confident that the economy would [...]
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Ashok Handoo writes: After 8.6 percent quarterly growth rate, it is now 8.8 percent. India’s economy has grown by 8.8 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year ending June against 8.6 percent in the last quarter ending March. This is the strongest performance since 2007. The economy grew by just 6 percent in the [...]
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Manish Desai writes: July 15, 2010 turned out to be a historic day, as the Indian Rupee got the much awaited symbol, just like other leading currencies of the world viz – Dollar, Euro, Pound Sterling and the Yen. The new symbol is an amalgamation of Devanagari –‘Ra’ and the Roman ‘R’ without the [...]
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