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The angry optimist
, Surjit Bhalla, Economist - Business Standard
Bhalla, who runs the investment firm Oxus and is an economic policy analyst who is frequently described as a contrarian, a maverick, or a genius, depending on who's doing the describing, has always expressed himself forcefully, and always for freer markets. He starts as he means to go on... |
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Queens phenom goes for redemption at National Spelling Bee finals
, Arvind Mahankali - Daily Beast
Arvind Mahankali of Queens was not yet of kindergarden age when he chanced to see the National Spelling Bee finals on television. “He said, ‘I want to be there on TV!’” recalls his father, Srinnas Mahankali. “He started meticulusly writing down the words. I said, ‘OK, work hard for it.’” |
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The stalinist Dilemma
, MK Stalin - Economic Times
After threatening many times to walk out of the government in New Delhi, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finally kept its word this week and thus shone a spotlight on its heir apparent Stalin. |
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Brazen, blunt and blessed by Rahul
, Beni Prasad Verma - Indian Express
When the Samajwadi Party first took up Union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma's disparaging remarks against Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday, senior Congress managers requested Verma to apologise. But Verma walked away from the meeting, saying he would prefer to resign instead. |
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Remvoe barriers, develop funding ecosystem for start-ups
, Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google Inc - Mint
India needs to develop the right funding ecosystem for start-ups along with having government policies that remove barriers for such companies to develop its Silicon Valley equivalent, said Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google Inc. |
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The horizon chaser
, Francisco D’Souza - Mint
On an early November day in 2011, a man with a boyish face and pensive expression paid a visit to the office of J. Bruce Harreld, a lecturer on entrepreneurial management and strategy at Harvard Business School and a former head of strategy at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). |
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The Chrome of a man
, Sundar Pichai - Business Standard
In his Twitter profile, the tag says it all: "Personal computing, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google, family, friends and life". These are the things that define Sundar Pichai, born Sundaram Pichai, in Chennai, in 1967. The silver medallist from IIT Kharagpur, with a master's degree from Stanford University, and an MBA from Wharton School, was appointed the new boss of Google's Android operating system, taking charge from Andrew E Rubin, Android's co-founder, who has been driving its growth in the fast-growing smartphone world. |
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Beni Prasad ko gussa kyun aata hai?
, Beni Prasad Verma - Economic Times
Discretion is certainly not one of the virtues of Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma, aka Beni babu. On Monday, his remarks at a public rally in his constituency Gonda that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had " terrorist links" disrupted Parliament and sent his Congress party spokesmen scurrying to do damage control. |
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The most important star is the story you are telling. It's not who you put in the movie
, Steven Spielberg, Iconic Hollywood Film Director - Indian Express
In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg speaks about his trip to India 30 years ago, his meeting with Amitabh Bachchan and his future projects. |
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Pharma’s free radical
, K Anji Reddy - Business Line
The Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL) is considered the `mother’ of all drug companies in Hyderabad. The public-sector company, with its impressive facilities in the 1960s, was a springboard for entrepreneurs. Among them, the numero uno was Kallam Anji Reddy. |
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Delhi-born professor is world's best business educator
, Vijay Sethi - Business Standard
Vijay Sethi, 52, professor at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has been named the world’s best business educator by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The information systems expert won the ‘Business Professor of the Year’ award, which includes a $100,000 prize, after beating three other professors in a live ‘teach-off’ at the Hult International... |
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Mister clean up?
, Manohar Parrikar, CM, Goa - Hindustan Times
At half-past seven on a balmy November evening in 2012, Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar briskly strode into his office in Porvorim, a suburb in Goa’s capital, Panjim, for an interview with Hindustan Times. As he personally signed on each of the 50 Diwali greeting cards stacked next to him, officials updated him on ongoing e-initiatives. |
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Elder statesman of India’s pharma industry
, Kallam Anji Reddy, Founder-Chairman, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd - Mint
Kallam Anji Reddy, founder-chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd and the pioneer of drug discovery research in India, died on Friday. He was 72 years old. Anji Reddy, who founded Dr Reddy’s in 1984 with Rs.25 lakh in initial capital and built it into India’s second largest drug maker with sales of Rs.9,673.7 crore last year, died in a city hospital where he had been admitted earlier this month. |
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UPA is pained because CAG is talking about its corruption
, Murli Manohar Joshi - Mint
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Murli Manohar Joshi is no stranger to controversy. Joshi, who was human resources development minister in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government that was unseated in 2004 by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), has been accused by the ruling coalition of trying to influence the government auditor’s report on allocation of 2G telecom spectrum and licences in 2008. |
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A woman of independent means
, Rajshree Pathy - Economic Times
It's always nice to meet someone with a big appetite for life. When Rajshree Pathy calls ten minutes ahead of our lunch appointment to confirm she's on her way, she adds: "I'm hungry. Hope the buffet's good." The buffet at Frangipani does turn out to be good, but Ms Pathy takes only one helping (and lots of dessert). |
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From hero to ground zero
, Akhilesh Yadav, CM, Utter Pradesh - Economic Times
Akhilesh Yadav signified a momentous change when he took charge as the youngest chief minister of UP, promising a break from his SP's Luddite politics and its baggage of association with notorious history-sheeters. |
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Early to talk of a turnaround, but numbers point to it
, Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance - Indian Express
The finance ministry's chief economic adviser Raghuram G Rajan believes that a large number of macro-economic indicators are pointing to a recovery in the economy. In a free-wheeling conversation after tabling of the Economic Survey 2012, Rajan said that current conditions should be taken as an opportunity to make the economy more competitive for faster and stronger growth. |
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A conservative with a common touch
, Jorge Mario Bergoglio - Business Standard
Like most of those in Argentina, he is a soccer fan, his favourite team being the underdog San Lorenzo squad. Known for his outreach to the country's poor, he gave up a palace for a small apartment, rode public transportation instead of a chauffeur-driven car and cooked his own meals. |
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'Wharton made a mistake in disinviting Modi'
, Prof Aseem R Shukla, University of Pennsylvania - NYT
The University of Pennsylvania recently withdrew an invitation to Gujarat’s chief minister, Narendra Modi, who was to deliver a keynote address at the Wharton School’s India Economic Forum via video link later this month. The withdrawal, based on questions raised about Mr. Modi’s human rights record, has spurred an animated debate about freedom of speech and Mr. Modi’s leadership credentials in India and among the Indian diaspora. |
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Argentina's Bergoglio elected Pope
, Pope Francis - BBC
Born in Argentina, Pope Francis is the first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the first Jesuit. "It seems my brother cardinals went almost to the end of the world [to choose a pope]," he told the crowd in St Peter's Square in his first address, a joke which belied his image as the cardinal who never smiles. |
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Even after retirement, Tata remains as busy as before
, Ratan Tata - Bus Std
On January 28 this year, a month after his retirement, Ratan Tata tweeted: "Life has been wonderfully pleasant. There's been more time to be at home, play with my dogs, and catch up on smaller things that I never found time to do earlier." |
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At 66, I still feel like a student
, Steven Spielberg, Iconic Hollywood Film Director - Economic Times
Iconic Hollywood film director, screenwriter and producer Steven Spielberg is currently on a visit to India's entertainment capital to meet Bollywood filmmakers and other stars of the filmdom. Still revelling in the success of 'Lincoln' at the Academy awards, the filmmaker — along with Stacey Snider, CEO of DreamWorks Studios — spoke to ET on casting Daniel Day-Lewis in the biopic and other topics like philanthropy, the making of 'Schindler's List', his inspirers like Kurosawa and Bergman, and the market for Hollywood movies outside the US. |
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India first is my definition of secularism
, Narendra Modi - Pioneer
After the controversial Wharton disinvite, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reached out to the Indian diaspora on Sunday with a live video address from Gandhinagar, telling his “secular” critics at home and abroad that secularism to him simply meant “India first” in one’s deeds and actions. |
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May support 3rd front or UPA, certainly not NDA
, Vijaya Lakshmi Reddy, YSR's widow - Economic Times
Too much water has flowed under the bridge for a merger with Congress, but YSR Cong is open to a post-poll tie-up, says Vijaya Lakshmi, YSR's widow, in an interview with ET. |
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Return of the Patriarch
, LK Advani - India Today
On a day Modi emerged as the star of the show with his fiery anti-Congress rhetoric, Advani's address initially seemed more like avuncular musings as he flitted rapidly from one topic to another. But if one read between the lines, Advani sent out a more important message with what he left unsaid than Modi did in his entire speech.
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