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Child Labor - Law to curb it exists only on paper! kbsyed61 - 30-SEP-2011
This is a report on reality of child labor that exist in our "Namma Bengaluru" city in spite of strict laws against child labor that exist only on paper. |
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murali772 - 4-AUG-2010
HCL Infosystems' led consortium with Accor Services and Virgo Softech has bagged a contract from Madhya Pradesh government for implementing food coupon-based targeted public distribution systems (PDS) in the state. |
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Naveen - 2-AUG-2010
China has now surpassed Japan as the No.2 economy in the world - India, whose economy was 80% of China's in 1990, is now a mere 25% of China's. |
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Counting the poor - how many do we have? silkboard - 15-JUL-2010
Public Agenda dear, here is that intellectually ruminating discussion we said we will have soon. How many poor people do we have in our country? The debate, and understanding the number is important because the classic quote goes - "you can't fix what you can't measure". If you can't count your poor, you can't check how your poverty alleviation programs are working. Two important things around which disagreements arise are 1) How do you define a poor household? 2) How exactly do you count people using the poverty definition you accept? First of all, the two popular stats that are quoted to start a discussions like this
Some other notable stats: |
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murali772 - 7-MAY-2010
''The public trust in business and its leaders has never been lower. To restore trust, it is time for business leaders to embrace their own version of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath, which shapes a common understanding of the role of business in society and the conduct expected of business leaders,'' wrote Nitin Nohria ( who has been named to take over as the Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School) recently after critiquing the failure of leadership in the recent economic and corporate turmoil. |
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Exploitation of mineral wealth murali772 - 18-JAN-2010
Jeffrey Lee in Australia is sitting on Uranium deosits which can provide 'clean' energy to the entire country for decades together and beyond. But, he is not interested in selling out even if it will make him amongst the richest men in the world (check this report in Daily Good). |
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psaram42 - 8-DEC-2009
Mahanavami is a currently popular TV serial on the ETV Kannada channel of Ramoji film city. The address is of Ramoji film city office at Bangalore is 9/7, K C N Bhavan Madhava Nagar, Bangalore, and Karnataka 560001. Phone: 080 22352230. |
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murali772 - 15-NOV-2009
Growth accelerated with tentative reforms in 1980, and shot up to 9% after reforms deepened in the current decade. How much lower would infant mortality, illiteracy and poverty have been had India commenced reform a decade earlier, and enjoyed correspondingly faster growth and human development? |
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Industry of 'poverty-wallahs' exposed murali772 - 15-NOV-2009
More people on the earth have risen out of poverty in the past 25 years than at any other time in human history, and this has happened primarily because of sustained high economic growth in India and China. |
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Disproportionate Budget for health care E.R. Ramachandran - 30-AUG-2009
This year parts of India have been devastated by swirling viruses which is spreading across the country.Dengue and Chikun Gunya in particular were predominant in most localities in Bangalore and ot |