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| March 29, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) Pasta with tikka, anyone? Paul Merrifield, president and CEO of the Dubai-based format restaurant chain, Hot Brands International, is busy evaluating the Indian market for expansion.
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| March 23, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) 'States could borrow 30% from the market' Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia talks about reorganising central loans to the states, in the second of a two-part interview with Mamata Singh.
HRO, the next big opportunity for India The global spend on business process outsourcing is estimated to be $234 billion in 2005 while the global human resources outsourcing (a comparatively new phenomenon) size is estimated at $ 67 billion, which is 29 per cent of the global BPO pie.
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| February 28, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) 'FM has done a tough balancing act' Divestment also was not covered. One would have expected divestment to be a major instrument for raising fund for various projects, as was the case in the last 3-4 budgets but we did not see it at all.
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| February 26, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) Karti on his father, P Chidambaram Karti Palaniappan Chidambaram is fast talking, quick thinking and wants passionately to change India. In that he's his father's son, the Chidambarams' only child.
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| February 17, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) 'Ease visa curbs to boost Indo-Pak trade' The total duration of the visa that we get is only 15 days and this hampers a lot of work if we are talking to a client in India, says Jehan Ara, President, Pakistan Software Houses Association.
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| February 15, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) 'We are merely roadside mechanics' 'Indians are merely going for software programming: it is like a car mechanic repairing cars, which is a tremendous ability. But though we can repair cars we cannot design them!' says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
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| February 03, 2005 |
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| ![](http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif) 'Suffering of the poor will go on if. . .' There is a big need for investment in health, education and infrastructure, otherwise the suffering of the poor will go on, says leading economist Jeffrey Sachs.
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