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...anticipated what would become a standard for urban planning: "Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took his name, becoming Jamshedpur. Tata Steel introduced a series of worker benefits that would become common only much later in the West, such as the eight-hour working day in 1912, maternity benefits in 1928 and profit-sharing in 1934. Today Jamshedpur, with free housing, free hospitals and free schools, sports stadiums and clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking The Foundations | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry when police fired on protesters who were accusing the state government acting as a broker in the development of making profits on the sale of their land. Twelve were killed. But to shed 40,000 employees at Jamshedpur, Tata Steel offered to pay their current salaries until retirement age along with free health care for life, and allowed them to keep their company houses for three years. Initiatives like these have kept the group free of strikes and other industrial actions for 77 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking The Foundations | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...sale and trading of illicit technology and nuclear-bomb materials would not have been possible without the consent and complicity of Pakistan's political and military establishment. Given Khan's greed, it is quite possible that some nuclear secrets may have reached terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. Srinivasan Balakrishnan Jamshedpur, India Your story described how Khan's global smuggling network sold nuclear materials. I am not defending Khan, but I must point out that the U.S. has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them on human beings. In the process of removing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

SRINIVASAN BALAKRISHNAN - Jamshedpur, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 2005 | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...period films, has not only mesmerized moviegoers with her beautiful eyes but also proved that she is more than a gorgeous supermodel. Through perseverance, hard work and proper selection of roles, Ash earned the title of "Bollywood Queen" and is acting as India's cultural ambassador. Srinivasan Balakrishnan Jamshedpur, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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