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Professors at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) will lead a training program in India intended to bolster the management skills of the country’s senior policy makers this January. Around 300 of India??s senior civil servants are expected to participate, with the first four-week course, “Governance Challenges for India,” kicking off at the year’s start. The course, part of the KSG’s Executive Education program, will be conducted with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India?...
...first act began with a short prayer to the Lord Ganesha asking that the show proceed without any obstacles. This was followed by a playful and whimsical dance called a pushpanjali, or a flower offering, which juxtaposed two types of classical dance from south India??Mohiniattam and the more energetic Kuchipudi. Dancers Vani E. Nambudiri ’09 and Amrapali Maitra ’10 alternated individual performances of the different forms before finishing off the act dancing in unison, showing the overlap between the two. Following the Pushpanjali was a wonderful song, performed by three singers...
...India comes as the world’s second most populous country experiences rapid growth. Its real gross domestic product—a common measure of the size of a country’s economy—expanded at a 7.6 percent rate last year. And last quarter, India??s economy exceeded expectations, registering a blazing 8.9 percent growth rate. “India is a country where there’s a great deal of management innovation going on, so it’s important for HBR to be on the ground and working with a publishing...
...India??s nuclear deterrence is a measure of self defense...in a hostile environment,” he said, adding that India is committed to never using its nuclear weapons in a first-strike capacity...
...India??s agreement with President Bush shows that “India is now seen as a partner and not as a target” in efforts to fight the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Mukherjee said...