India and the US have agreed to strengthen their existing partnership in areas, such as science and engineering, social sciences and humanities US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Led by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and India Minister of Human Resources and Development Kapil Sibal, a group of high-level government officials, educators and college administrators from the United States and India brainstormed here On October 13 about taking their educational … [Read more...]
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No More Jobs
Steve Jobs died last week and along with him may have passed some of America's hopes, dreams and potential for future jobs. Bur, this need not be the case, if we can learn the key lessons that Mr. Jobs, this quintessential American, provided through his life, leadership and continuous and incredible ability to reinvent himself and his businesses. President Obama described Jobs as "among the greatest of American innovators." Many other articles and tributes characterized Jobs as a … [Read more...]
Corruption: How India Differs From Developed Nations…
Although corruption is rampant at the grassroots level, people have signalled that it’s not business as usual any more. Ever since Anna Hazare launched his anti-graft movement earlier this year, reams of newsprint and exabytes of online space have been spent dissecting and analysing corruption in India. Nearly every aspect of corruption in the country has been explored and every socio-political theory related to it has been examined in the Indian context. A question repeatedly … [Read more...]
A Winning Game Plan
Howard Schultz, founder, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks, has recently called upon executives not to make any political donations until there is a "courageous, long-term bipartisan debt and financial security plan that addresses both entitlements and revenue." This request for abstinence from Mr. Schultz reminds us of a different Schulz. That is Charles Schulz of Peanuts cartoon fame. A favorite Charles Schulz cartoon of ours is one in which Lucy is holding a football for Charlie Brown to kick. … [Read more...]
It’s Time To Play in the 3-I League
On Friday, August 26, as Hurricane Irene began to move up the East Coast to give Washington, DC a physical lashing, Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke spoke out, from across the country in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to give our elected officials in the nation's capitol a tongue lashing. Chair Bernanke asserted, "...the country would be well served by a better process for making fiscal decisions. The negotiations that took place over the summer disrupted financial markets and probably the … [Read more...]
The Need for Austerity and Audacity
When Barack Obama was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2009, hope was in the air and audacity was abounding. Today, 32 months later (and two-thirds of the way through the Obama presidency), Hope is just a city in Arkansas, and austerity pervades. We are in the midst of a jobless economic recovery that is so exceedingly fragile that to even label it as such seems a misnomer. The sad and sorry spectacle that was the debt ceiling debate in Washington, D.C. sent chills through the public and the … [Read more...]
India’s Unstoppable March Toward Greatness
WASHINGTON, D.C.: India celebrated its 65th Independence Day on Monday, with much fanfare. Among other things, the Independence Day of a nation is an occasion to pay tributes to its freedom fighters and founding fathers, celebrate its accomplishments and review its general direction. From a personal standpoint, there is no better day to pay tributes to the country of your birth than the day of its birth. Even though the last Independence Day I celebrated in India was when I was in my early … [Read more...]
US Investors Now Expect Deeds from Mukhurjee
Officially, the mission of Pranab Mukherjee’s just-concluded trip was to attend the second annual meeting of the India-US Financial and Economic Partnership. The finance minister brought with him perhaps the most star-studded Indian economic team to visit Washington for a bilateral event. The delegation included chieftains and key officials of nearly all major economic and regulatory institutions that oversee the $1.5 trillion Indian economy, among them, Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri … [Read more...]
Woes on multiple fronts weigh down US economy
Nearly two years after getting out of a painful recession, the US economy continues to stutter along. Though multiple indicators have suggested that the recovery is real-the world's largest economy has registered an average growth rate of 2.8 per cent per quarter over seven quarters-the recovery is yet to be felt on the Main Street, USA. Middle-class Americans, who bore the brunt of the worst recession since the Great Depression, are still struggling financially. Many are still unemployed, or … [Read more...]
Sense of relief at the demise of Bin Laden
For someone who has been on the run for nearly 10 years, Osama Bin Laden’s end came swiftly. It took the U.S. Navy Seals just 40 minutes to eliminate America’s most wanted man, who was hiding, not in the treacherous mountains on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border — as it was widely believed — but in a sprawling mansion just miles away from Islamabad. Within hours, his body was buried, somewhere in the North Arabian Sea. Not surprisingly, there was one common thread in the way most people around … [Read more...]