Word: pune
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...Then there's the China factor or rather, the anywhere-but-China factor. Korean giant LG Electronics exports to the Middle East from appliance and consumer-electronics factories near Pune and New Delhi because it's faster to ship to those markets from India than from China. The company recently opened another Pune plant to make optical-disk drives for Europe. "We didn't want to depend on the Chinese for everything," says Kim Kwang Ro, managing director of LG Electronics in India. "Our company decided to diversify...
...Afghanistan was the right way to go. The U.S. should have put pressure on all countries in which Islamic terrorism has training camps and madrasahs, where the young are brainwashed into a culture of blind hate. Iraq was, tragically, the wrong place to go to war. Rita Putatunda Pune, India Back to Basics Re "The new India, and the old one" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry, that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from...
...Nation issue, the weekly newsmagazine India Today found less than half of those surveyed expressed any trust in their MPs. So low is India's opinion of its political leaders, in fact, that a new college, the M.I.T. School of Government, opened last September in the central city of Pune with the aim of producing a bright new generation of Indian politicians. But until they can deliver on that ambitious goal, it seems that the most respected politicians in India, like Gandhi and Singh, won't be politicians...
...DIED. GOPAL VINAYAK GODSE, 86, sole survivor of the group of five men who plotted the 1948 assassination of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi; in Pune, India. Godse served 16 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy; his brother Nathuram, who shot Gandhi, was executed in 1949. In his old age Godse showed no remorse for the murder of the pacifist leader, whom he believed had betrayed India by encouraging Hindus to coexist peacefully with Pakistan. Gandhi "had to be eliminated to save the country from further damage," Godse told the Hindustan Times...
...million, or just 40% of the cost in the U.S., according to India's IT industry group Nasscom. "We're likely to see an explosion in R.-and-D. outsourcing in 2005 and 2006," says Partha Iyengar, an analyst at the research firm Gartner who is based in Pune. If that happens, India's tech sector could enter a new, more mature phase of growth. U.S. and European firms would have a fresh way to nurture innovation. But they will also face the risks of laying the building blocks of their technological future far from home. "I really worry about...