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India Inc

India is seen globally as the major R&D provider for the IT companies in the world. There is no technology giant that does not have a R&D centre in India. These R&D centres tap into the country’s vast pool of skilled manpower and help their parent companies to churn out world class products and technologies. [...]

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The third generation phone (3G) technology allows users to transfer large music and data files in a jiffy. Mobile TV is another popular application of this next generation phone. Since long time the allotment saga is going on. There is dispute on the licensing fees. By the license fees government is going to earn a [...]

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Basic exemption for individual tax payers was increased by Rs 10,000 for general tax payers and women and Rs 15,000 for senior citizens (i.e. 65 years and above) by the finance minister on Monday. The current income tax exemption limit is Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 150,000) for men, Rs 1.8 lakh (Rs 180,000) for women [...]

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Here are highlights of Union Budget 2009 – 2010. Our Finance Minister presented the budget today in the parliament. The Budget was basically meant for Common man. The stock markets reacted negatively due to budget and plunged 800 odd points. CHALLENGES To lead economy to high GDP growth rate of 9 per cent per annum [...]

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday tabled the Economic Survey for 2008-09 that prescribes doing away with cess, surcharges on taxes, including fringe benefit tax, and sweeping refroms in areas like petrol pricing and financial sector. Following are the highlights of the pre-Budget Economic Survey: 2008-09. Unleash reforms – phase out cesses, surcharges and transaction [...]

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Laptop market in India

by Chirag on June 23, 2009

Last year the laptop sales in India doubled. (In the year 2008). HP has the largest market share of 21 per cent in the Indian laptop market, followed by HCL and Lenovo. Besides the corporate sector, laptops have been in demand in the education sector, with schools and colleges encouraging their day-to-day use. Laptops sales [...]

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Rural market is characterized by mass audience with less buying potentials as their needs and consumption is less. Rural market would rather tend to consume day to day required items rather than luxury items. So FMCG companies see a big markets there. At present FMCG companies in the rural markets are growing at a rate [...]

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Do your eyes really believe it that Deflation is in India? Yes India has faced Deflation after 30 years. The long zooming Inflation rate which had reached almost 13% odd is now at -1.61% for the week ended 6th June (YoY). The wholesale price-linked inflation, which was at 0.13 percent the previous week, last turned [...]

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Even during the slow down online shopping has increased. The main reason being attractive discounts and freebies offered.  Infact the slow down helped E-Portals to increase their business as people would rather buy what they find cheap i.e. people will buy from wher ever they get at a cheaper cost. E-Portals always have promotional offers [...]

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Eight Indian Cities found place in the list of 25 most riskiest off shoring locations. India may have been hailed for long as the world’s top outsourcing destination, but a new study has named as many as eight cities in the country among the world’s 25 riskiest places for offshoring, mainly on concerns like terrorism, [...]

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