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...consumers are also reshaping how large sections of the economy work. Take, for example, the cinema industry. Movie houses have been almost exclusively mom-and-pop outfits and, as a result, old, dingy and broken down. But the young, high-spending crowd is enticing major corporate players to invest. Bombay-based Inox Leisure opened its first two multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges as much...
...with a special debit card that allows kids to withdraw money from ATMs--with a spending limit imposed by their parents--and get discounts at McDonald's and Pizza Hut. "The young generation is changing the consumer-financing landscape," says Sarvesh Sarup, Citibank's chief of consumer banking in Bombay. "Targeting of that segment is very, very critical...
...financial skills such as equity research and analysis or market research for developing new business. Evalueserve, a niche outsourcing company in Delhi, already performs research for patent attorneys and consulting firms in the U.S. In April, J.P. Morgan Chase said it would hire about 40 stock-research analysts in Bombay--about 5% of its total research staff. Novartis employs 40 statisticians in Bombay who process data from the drug company's clinical research...
...Died. Johnny Walker, 79, Indian comedian who rose from bus conductor to Bollywood star; in Bombay. Walker, who took his stage name from a Scotch bottle, appeared in more than 300 movies...
...Denied Pardon. Peter Bleach, British arms dealer serving a life sentence for parachut-ing crates of arms into eastern India; in New Delhi. Bleach was arrested in Bombay with an aircrew from Russia in 1995. The crew received a presidential pardon in 2000 after Moscow intervened. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed for Bleach's release during Indian Deputy Premier L.K. Advani's trip to London in June. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christen Nielson, was never captured and the intended recipients of the weapons never identified...