HISAR: She is said to be India’s richest woman. But Congress nominee from Hisar assembly seat, Savitri Jindal, does not own a car. However, the Haryana minister for revenue has wealth worth $2.9 billion, according to the Forbes Magazine survey of richest women of the world.
In her statement given before the returning officer, while filing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GDP’
India’s richest woman can’t afford a car
Posted in Corruption, Funny India, India Facts, Poverty, Women, tagged GDP, Globalization, haryana, Hindu, Hindutva, Savitri Jindal, Upper Class, Women on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
India stands at 44th rank among global IT competitiveness index
Posted in Business India, India Facts, tagged Bangalore, Education, GDP, India, Information Technology, IT on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HELSINKI: India stands at 44th rank among global IT competitiveness index. The United States continued to lead the global IT industry competitiveness ranking in an annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, followed by Finland, Sweden and Canada. The prominence of Finland, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands in the index’s top tier was helped most [...]
Crop worth Rs 55,600 cr wasted every year
Posted in Business India, India Facts, Poverty, tagged Food, GDP, Hindu Growth, Hunger, India, Poverty on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
NEW DELHI: For a country reeling under an unprecedented food crisis, here is an alarming figure: India losses Rs 55,600 crore worth of crops each year after harvesting. This has been admitted by the government before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture.
Food grain worth Rs 16,500 crore, roughly 10% of the food grain produced, is [...]
Rs 21,068 crore per year for petty bribes
Posted in Business India, Corruption, Hindutva, India Facts, tagged Brahmin, Corruption, GDP, Hindu, Hindutva, India on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why does corrupt India grow fast?
How serious is corruption in India, and how great an obstacle to fast growth? Most people would say corruption is very high and a serious obstacle to the 10% growth now sought by politicians.
A joint study by CMS and Transparency International in 2005 asked people of their experiences in dealing [...]
All about India’s stock Markets
Posted in Business India, Hindutva, India Facts, tagged Business, GDP, Hindutva, India, Poverty, Sensex on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
UNREAL FINANCIAL MARKETS – India must stop being greedy for foreign money
Financial markets are in turmoil. In his co-edited book, Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance, Amiya Kumar Bagchi describes how financial institutions in developed countries have an adverse impact on developing countries and poor people. We are experiencing this [...]