The largest car maker of India, Maruti Suzuki India, launched its luxury sedan Kizashi, with an introductory price of upto Rs 17.5 lakh.

Kizashi is powered by a 2.4 litre petrol engine and will be imported from parent Suzuki’s Japan facility.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

The country’’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India today launched its luxury sedan Kizashi, with an introductory price of upto Rs 17.5 lakh.

The car, powered by a 2.4 litre petrol engine, will be imported from parent Suzuki’’s Japan facility.

“The Kizashi is a major step forward for Maruti Suzuki. With the launch of this luxurious sporty sedan, the company is able to offer an international car to top-end customers in India,” Maruti Suzuki India Managing Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi told reporters here.

The car would be available in two variants, manual transmission priced at Rs 16.5 lakh and automatic transmission at Rs 17.5 lakh.

Maruti Suzuki India has already started bookings for the car, deliveries for which will begin in March this year.

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The United States is making it a priority to help private sector help meet growing needs of India as India presents ‘fantastic opportunities’ for American companies in infrastructure development, as per Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robert Blake.

Blake said, ‘India presents fantastic opportunities for US companies to provide the goods and services needed to build its railroads, airports, power plants, and fibre optic cables to facilitate India’s rise.’

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

Speaking on ‘India: The Rise of an Economic Power’ at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, he held out an assurance ‘that US is making it a priority to work with our private sector to give them the opportunities to help meet India’s growing needs.’

‘Over the last decade, India became our 14th largest goods trading partner and we exchanged $37.6 billion in goods in 2009,’ Blake noted. ‘US foreign direct investment in India reached $16.1 billion in 2008, a 10.8 percent increase from 2007.’

‘Television shows like ‘Outsourced’ and the often heated rhetoric on Capitol Hill might lead you to think that India’s tremendous and swift rise as an economic power has come at the expense of American jobs,’ Blake said.

The numbers, however, show otherwise and speak to increasingly balanced trade and investment relations between the US and India, he said.

During President Barack Obama’s visit to India in November, trade deals were announced that exceeded $14.9 billion in total value with $9.5 billion in US export content, supporting over 50,000 US jobs.

India is also a notable source of foreign direct investment into the United States, with $4.5 billion FDI into the US in 2008, up 60 percent from the previous year, Blake said.

Blake also remarked, ‘Washington and Delhi must serve as catalysts for growth and innovation, not stifle entrepreneurial spirit with overbearing bureaucracies.’

Tags: foreign direct investment, infrastructure development, Outsourced

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs. – Joan Didion

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. – William Carleton

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. – Sam Ewing

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. – W. Somerset Maugham

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. – Harper Lee

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The face of computer gaming has evolved to a significant extent in the last two decades. With evolution of the Internet, Mac users and particularly gamers who used to feel a little left out have countless reasons now to stay happy as the growing popularity of a large number of free online games for Mac users, thanks to Apple computers.

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Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, in a major shift in policy that may make mobile telecom services costly, said henceforth all operators would have to pay market price for initial as well additional spectrum.

Sibal said, “In future, the spectrum will not be bundled with licence. The licence to be issued to telecom operators will be in the nature of ”Unified Licence” and the licence holder will be free to offer any of the multifarious telecom services while delinking spectrum from the licences in the aftermath of the 2G scam.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

As of now the telecom operators were getting spectrum bundled with the telecom licenses which had paved the way for low tariff regime and intense price war among the service providers.

But now, the new operators, if their licences are held valid, would have to pay a market price for the additional 1.8 Mhz of 2G spectrum and this may make their operations financially unviable.

For the old operators like Bharti, Vodafone and Idea, who are holding spectrum beyond 6.2 Mhz, they would have to pay market driven price for the extra airwaves.

These changes would be implemented with immediate effect, Sibal said.

One of the new operators, when contacted, said that the new regime has given a major advantage to the old operators by allowing them to retain 6.2 Mhz of spectrum while the new operators would be at loss as they have to pay market price for the additional 1.8 Mhz spectrum.

At a time when the new operators are struggling to get new subscribers, additional cost on them would hit them hard.

“In the event, the licence holder would like to offer wireless services, it will have to obtain spectrum through a market driven process,” Sibad added.

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Israeli pundits have said that Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighbourhood and U.S. President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame if Hosni Mubarak, the President of Egypt, is toppled.

Political commentators said the manner in which the United States as well as its major European allies have appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of three decades, simply to conform to the current ideology of political correctness, is shocking.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers of the Jewish state to make no comment on the political cliffhanger in Cairo, to avoid inflaming an already explosive situation. But Israel’s President Shimon Peres is not a minister.

“We always have had and still have great respect for President Mubarak,” he said on Monday. He then switched to the past tense. “I don’t say everything that he did was right, but he did one thing which all of us are thankful to him for: he kept the peace in the Middle East.”

Obama called for an “orderly transition” to democracy in Egypt for stopping short of calling on Mubarak to step down, but signaled that his days may be numbered.

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NASSCOM chief Som Mittal recently said India is a net job creator for US companies, not the other way around.

“India is a net job creator for US companies, not the other way around. The Indo-US economic relationship benefits the American economy and its job market in many important and tangible ways,” Mittal wrote in an opinion piece in the Seattle Times.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

The US has emerged as a preferred destination for Indian investment. In fact, India now ranks second, behind the UAE, in the list of fastest-growing foreign investors in the US, he argued in his article.

Observing that India has never sought publicity for its commercial connections to the US, Mittal said India it has quietly become both a major investor in America and a significant destination for American goods and services.

“It has a rapidly growing population of consumers hungry for products of many kinds. And unlike other large economies that have been suffering through recessions in recent years, India has increased its total outward foreign direct investment and devoted an increasing share of that largesse to the American market in need of financial support,” he said.

Referring to a recent study by Ernst & Young, which was commissioned by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Mittal said it found that Indian companies have increased their investment in the US by more than $20 billion over the past five years.

According to the study, those investments have supported the creation of more than 65,000 American jobs.

US business leaders signed export deals with India worth more than USD 10 billion to US employers like Boeing at summit of President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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