What’s that word written out there?!?!!

Education aside, today’s America is setting new standards on other fronts – drug abuse, single parenthood, teen pregnancy, youth delinquency, homicide, and suicide are rampant and ubiquitous. And these are some of ‘the’ very reasons of such below average student performances, as the institution of family – just like a school– is pivotal in shaping an individual. No matter how much is invested, a fractured family at best can give a fractured individual. So, howsoever benevolent the vision, blindly investing more and more in education, and that too in meaningless ancillary services like transport, meals, housing et al (US spends on an average double on these services than any other developed nation) is useless! Investments should rather be targeted towards meaningful social intervention. Till then to call anything ‘the most significant accomplishment’ is at best, over ambitious.

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And now, LMW beats Reliance hands down! The Cash EPS story, and more...

In our rankings, we have calculated the Cash EPS for the past three years and taken into consideration the average Cash EPS. On the basis of the same, leaders and followers have been tabulated. Lakshmi Machinery Works emerges as the top company from the sample. With an average Cash EPS worth Rs.2,291.67 for 3 years, Lakshmi Machinery Works outperforms the sample and is ahead of its immediate follower in the list by a big margin. The yearly Cash EPS figures for the company are Rs.552.18, Rs.1,218.33 and Rs.5,104.52 for 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Lakshmi Machinery works has had a cash flow record of Rs.683 million, Rs.1.04 billion and Rs.4.71 billion for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively. Behind Lakshmi Machinery Works, the second company in the list is Jet Airways from the transport services sector with an average Cash EPS worth Rs.417.65. It’s Cash EPS for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 are Rs.49.74, Rs.611.41 and Rs.591.8 respectively. The cash flows of the company for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 were Rs.4.29 billion, Rs.10.55 billion Rs.10.21 billion respectively.

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Music is in the air...

It couldn’t get better than this! It was in February this year when the final allocations were made under the Phase II of FM expansion. Just around six months down the line and the air waves are already abuzz with 10 new FM channels. Jaipur has been the luckiest of them all. Latest Bollywood blockbusters and chirpy jock-talk fill the colourful bazaars of the Pink City of India these days. Just over the past five months, Jaipur has added four new FM stations (Radio Mirchi, Bhaskar Group’s My FM, Rajasthan Patrika’s 95 FM Tadka and Radio City) to its airwaves, which till now was monopolized by AIR. And Sun Group’s FM venture is next.

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Style... of the cuff!

Where are shirts without cuff-links today – so why not wear them the Bvlgari style. The cuff-links are in yellow gold articulating the beginning and the end, the two extremes. In typical Bvlgari brilliance, it attributes sheer charm to the wearer’s halo. Cufflink which breathes the aura of future... this style statement available for only Rs.57,800.

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