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China has, once and for all, made it clear that although it is more than willing to open itself for trade with the rest of the world, it would never toler­ate any attempt that breaches or even tries to influence the prevailing way of think­ing within its sphere of influence. The lat­est move by the Chinese administration to regulate Internet based news sources, only goes to highlight the pathetic state of freedom of expression in the land of the dragon.


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But truly, despite diversifying into new areas, Bharti .rmly believes in outsourcing non-core processes. In late August 2005, Bharti Tele-Ventures outsourced contracts of its call centre operations to four companies: Hinduja TMT, IBM Daksh, Mphasis and Teletech Services; with Nokia providing technology support to these four.

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The trade relations between India and Canada started on a positive note post 1947, with the aim of enhanced cooperation between Commonwealth nations. But India’s nuclear tests at Pokhran hampered bilateral ties. Also, Canadian economy suffered greatly due to oil shocks in the 1970s. Today, India is the largest trading partner of Canada in the entire SAARC region, although the figures are not that impressive. In the year 2004, the total exports of Canada to India aggregated $656 million, about 0.2% to Canada’s totalexports.

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The gnu gets its name from its queer grunt. Also called the wildebeest, its more popular moniker, it is one of nature’s oddities. It has a body that is part bovine and part antelope, with a head that seems to be a cross between a goat and a bull. Every year, after the northern hemisphere experiences the long rains, huge herds of this strange animal migrate en-masse from the Serengeti grasslands into the Masai Mara in Kenya in search of fresh grass, thus setting into motion one of nature’s classic epics.

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Western journalists have used sting operations to ‘expose’ data theft and security hazards in these companies. No matter what the reason or provocation, India’s BPO sector has been receiving a lot of bad press in recent times. The representative body of the BPO sector, NASSCOM, has been quick to defend the sector and its practices vehemently. On balance, it does appear as if NASSCOM has a strong case. The slave labour charge is indeed a publicity gimmick because companies all over the world now routinely monitor employees as data theft can be a life or death issue, literally so. In any case, all employees offer their services voluntarily and have no obligations to remain employees whether they like it or not.

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Transmission and distribution of Power (IIPM Publication)

It is politicians again who are the culprits when it comes to the other segment – transmission and distribution (T&D). In fact, T&D has acquired a new lexicon in India – it is called theft and dacoity. In a less crazy situation, even the little power that was generated because of low PLF should have reached the retail consumer. In India, it usually doesn’t. That is because T&D losses in India average about 30%--against the international average of 8%. In India’s capital city Delhi, the theft and dacoity percentage is in excess of 50%!

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