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...good part of this liquidity is coming from foreign institutional investors that are keen to diversify into a fast-growing economy that still has relatively few big listed companies. With a healthy GDP growth rate of 6.7% in the last fiscal year, India remains an attractive destination for investment capital that was sidelined by the recession. Bankers are hoping the market will get a boost later this year from the anticipated IPOs of companies such as cable-TV service provider Digital Entertainment Network, which has exposure to increasingly wealthy Indian consumers. "We're waiting for consumption-oriented companies to list...
...local, state and national politics. Their influence can be judged by the fact that for 36 years after the state was carved out in 1956, ten of the state's Chief Ministers have been from the Reddy community. The 12 Reddys among the present cabinet of ministers are keen to keep the top post within the community, showing how Indian politics also still runs mainly on caste and community considerations. (See a timeline of events that shaped modern India...
...through, but it also shortchanges the importance of overall environment that influenced the brothers’ creative process. Arriving in Boston in 1888 to study architecture at MIT, the Greenes eventually found inspiration in their own artistic ambitions and cultural experiences. “I had a feeling of keen disappointment,” Charles noted. “I wanted to be an artist.” This aesthetic drive was complemented by the influence of Japanese art, which entered the Western consciousness after Japan ended its isolationism and figured into every major Greene project after the 1904 design...
...more of a place to kind of rest, so to speak,” said Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate School of Design and co-chair of the Common Spaces Steering Committee. “There’s a lot of movement, and people were keen to find ways to basically slow down the traffic...
...attack on the minister comes a day after the Interior Ministry said there were unspecified reports of a Taliban campaign to target religious and political leaders. Analysts say that the notoriously vicious new leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud is keen to assert himself after assuming the leadership of the organization. But there is also speculation that any new campaign might be the work of al-Qaeda. Last week, Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister survived an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack in the port city of Jeddah. (See pictures of Osama Bin Laden...