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In Dancing with the Stars, Heather Mills was ousted in the sixth week of competition, following a public vote. Although ranked fifth by the jury, Mills was all prepared to exit what with her farewell speech ready hidden underneath her dress! Having met with an accident in 1993, Miller has since had a prosthetic leg and that she participated and got this far, is commendable and truly inspirational.

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A Gleam In Your Eye

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The wait for this one would not be very long! Come 2010 (or maybe sooner) and you can have eyewear (both contacts & goggles) that will change colour on their own. This eyewear will function on the electrochromics technology and will darken and lighten on its own, according to the intensity of the light. Meant to protect eyes from the harmful rays of the Sun, this innovative offering will save you from the trouble of changing into a pair of shades every time you step out. An extension of the technology is used for window panes. This gadget will definitely become one of the most sought after lifestyle accessory for the fashion struck individuals.

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AstraZeneca must drive R&D

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Carl Icahn has done it again... Another company caught unaware, another helpless Board crumbling under shareholder pressure & biotech firm MedImmune was taken (in just 2 months of his acquiring a small 1.2% stake in the firm)! On April 23, 2007, MedImmune sold off to AstraZeneca for a whopping $15.6 billion. The valuation represents a 20.83% premium over MedImmune’s previous closing share price of $48.01 (total premium of $3.44 billion), which raises a question on the logic behind the deal.

MedImmune has been bought at twice the relative sum (valued at 5.8 times the annual sales) as Germany’s Merck KGaA had bought Europe’s largest biotech firm Serono AG in 2006. But look at the string of failures that AstraZeneca had over just the past one year, and the step makes some sense. After spending a whopping $3.9 billion in R&D during 2006, it reported failure of all four late-stage drugs – Exanta (anti-blood clot), Galida (anti-diabetic), NXY-059 (stroke) & AGI-1067 (heart). Clearly, it needs additions to its pipeline.

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Conscience vs Science

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When modern ideals are thrust into a country that prides itself for its high morals, people across the country get enraged, and today, sex education is one such topic. In spite of more than 0.5 mn children in India suffering from AIDS and 53% of sexual abuse victims between 5-18 years, the matter’s still debated. The conservatives are resisting discussing the ‘taboo’ issue with kids, and schools in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka have banned sex education as a subject for students. The pictures portraying the anatomy of the human body were likened to pornography and the activists felt that such exposure would encourage children to be sexually active.

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To merge or not to merge

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M&As are growing, but caution a must

The continued hype over recent Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As) is not without reason. While Indian corporations may be riding the M&A juggernaut like a bull on a rampage, the underlying fact is that in today’s globalised markets, M&As are necessary to ensure competence on an international scale. Their importance can be highlighted by the fact that they deliver manifold purposes like increasing marketing share, generating economies of scale, increasing revenues, diversification, product innovation and vertical integration.

Some of the movers and shakers in recent times have been the offer by Porsche to take over Volkswagen, the EDS-Mphasis acquisition, Arcelor- Mittal acquisition, the IBM-ISS acquisition, the Barclays-ABN Amro acquisition, Google’s acquisition of YouTube, et al. Back home too, we have seen some frenzied M&A activity. Some instances are Tata-Corus, Jet-Sahara merger and the Vodafone buyout of Hutch-Essar.

However, quite a few mergers fail to deliver, like Daimler-Chrysler, HPCompaq and GE-Honeywell to name a few. Research proves that as a norm, most M&As end up being wealth destroyers, not to forget culture clashes and massive job losses due to redundant positions. It only goes on to show that M&As need to be carefully planned out. If companies tend to focus too much on the positives, they stand to lose much more than they hope to gain. 4Ps

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Do firms having the ubiquitous ‘non-MBA CEOs’ achieve more than those having MBA leaders?

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A majority of Fortune 500 firms have traditionally avoided hiring MBA CEOs. Professor Harry Mintzberg, one of the noted management authors, last year regurgitated a similar thought process when he said, “MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences...” Guy Kawasaki, a known management author and himself an MBA, threw up much worse with respect to entrepreneurial firms, “I don’t think an MBA matters very much...” How would you describe such a distinct playing-to-the-gallery thought process? I have one word for it... Stupid! It is unbelievable that in today’s world, there could be anyone supporting such a blunderingly hollow ‘anti-MBA’ viewpoint.

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The ensuing Scottish elections expose the bitter English-Scottish divide

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If pollsters are to be believed, the first of May celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the union between England & Scotland are most likely to be cut short – the pro-independence Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) is currently reported to be way ahead of the Labour Party in Parliamentary Elections due to be held on May 3. Speaking to B&E, the London-based former Journalist of BBC World Service, Pervaiz Alam said, “The Labour Party (the single largest party in 2003 elections) is in for a rude shock. Post elections, not only will they have to grapple with vexed issue of Scottish independence, but also reinvigorate their efforts to prevent their sliding fortunes at the national level.”

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These days, stories abound of Asian companies giving well entrenched American behemoths a run for their money; both in the US and many emerging markets. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, LG, Samsung, Lenovo and Haier are just a few names, amongst the flurry of Asian brands that are poised to dominate global Inc.

The sorry saga of the American appliance major Whirlpool’s tryst with the Indian market is simply a case under consideration. It entered the market with limitless ambition, underestimated the competition from nimble footed Korean chaebols and ended up with a whimper! A classic case of what happens when an American MNC attempts to spawn a cash cow on wrong notions. Small wonder that in an otherwise burgeoning Indian consumer durables market, despite having the celebrity couple Kajol and Ajay Devgan as brand ambassadors; Whirlpool has a virtually negligible market share in some of the fastest growing product categories (read: ACs & microwaves) in the segment, and is in the red by a whopping Rs.1.05 billion (accumulated losses).

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Sean’s libido lessons

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Sean Combs aka ‘Puff Diddy’ has been doing some serious exercise, the kind quite apt for P. Diddy’s Bad Boy image. And it has us convinced that apart from parting with some phat rapping tips to brothers of his hood, Sean’s pretty qualified for sharing much more useful tips too. For while most would consider themselves supermen after ‘doing it’ All Night Long, Sean’s in a different league altogether. He’s confessed to having had marathon sex sessions with girlfriend Kim Porter, which would easily go on for 30 hours! Imagine what would’ve happened with Jennifer...!!! But seriously, as Combs takes his number Satisfy You to an altogether new meaning, he could make a fortune out of conducting crash courses in copulation!

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Vaughn Richtor : MD & CEO, ING VYSYA

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One of the parents, Vysya Bank, has over seven decades of expertise in the banking sphere and complements its partner, the globally acclaimed financial finesse of ING, a Dutch entity that commands respect of more than 60 million of its clients spread over 50 nations across the world and boasts of a varied employee fleet of over 117,000. This match presumably was just the right ingredient required by the newly formed entity to envisage an enterprise that would embrace transformation and innovation in an earnest manner. When Vaughn Nigel Richtor took over as the Managing Director and Chief Executive of ING Vysya in February 2006, he was expected to take the organisation’s initiatives forward, as he seemed to be the most suitable person for this post, having been associated with the ING Group from the year 1991 and having served at the post of Chief Executive at ING Direct, Australia, since 1999.

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Infra‘stuck’ture? Not anymore

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With rising traf. c, GVK is . ghting an uphill battle against time
You can’t have the cake and eat it too! Surely, while talk about umpteen carriers joining the domestic aviation space and the vigorous annual growth of 28% in the sector would cheer you up, the very thought of cramped-up space and poor infrastructure brings back frowns.

The modernisation drive for the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) in Mumbai is currently in progress under Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL, a part of GVK). But it was never easy for the giant with the road strewn with challenges galore, confirming which, G. V. Sanjay Reddy, MD, MIAL stated, “The space available is less compared to the other international airports in India. This is a big challenge we have to counter. The bigger challenge however, is to modernise a working airport.” With an investment of Rs.70 billion spread over a period of two decades (of which Rs.58 billion will be invested in the first seven years), Mumbai looks set to own a world class airport.

CSIA crossed the 20 million mark in passenger traffic figures for the period from April 2006–February 2007. This is the first time that total traffic handled by a particular airport has surpassed the landmark figure. It recorded a total passenger traffic of 20.29 million (13.56 million domestic & 6.73 million international) for the eleven month period, signifying a 21.28% increase over the same period last year. Furthermore the traffic during December 2006 was also a record at 2.15 million, which was the highest ever monthly count for any Indian airport.

And in the midst of this rising passenger traffic & CSIA struggling for breathing space, GVK’s progress will be keenly watched on this front.

B&E Research: Viral Vyas

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Keeping India's 'Flag' high at LSE

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Reliance Communication's (RComm) Flag Telecom is all set to hit the London Stock Exchange through an Initial Public Offer (IPO). Flag Telecom is RComm's fully-owned subsidiary and runs a fibre bandwidth network connecting a major part of the globe. Goldman Sachs and Deutsche bank have been hired by RComm to manage the proceedings of the IPO which is said to be completed in three months’ time. According to analysts, the company is worth $2 billion and it is believed that through divestment of 10- 15% equity, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) will be able to recover 10 times of hat it paid to acquire Flag Telecom in 2002 ($211 million). Part of the proceeds of the IPO will go into funding its expansion plans, announced last year.

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A Refreshing Opportunity

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If sheer statistics were anything to go by, the tea industry of Vietnam is ‘sheer’ly going great guns! With the country producing no less than forty different varieties of the hot beverage, six varieties are exported to sixty countries in Asia, America and Europe. Amongst the eighteen bulk buyers, Pakistan, India, China & Russia have been instrumental in Vietnam posting tea export . gures of an estimated 100,000 tonnes worth $110 million. All driving the country to come 7th in terms of tea production and 6th in tea exports in the world (Food and Agriculture Organisation). Having said that, there is still a lot of untapped potential for this blooming sector, with the government building a national tea brand the “che viet” and looking to furrow into markets in UK, Germany, US, Australia, Thailand, Russia, China & Ukraine. With exports estimated to touch $1 billion by 2020, it’s surely a cuppa that one would love to dip into... ain’t it?!

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Apple has always suffered from the 'late mover' dilemma... this time, it's no different

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There is something strange about Apple. An innovative and creative mind mixed with a total misunderstanding of market trends, it seems. If we go back in time, when the Mac reigned supreme over the micro/personal computer world there was no contest between the very polished and intuitive interface of the Mac against the crude data center approach of the Microsoft products. And the people at Apple developed this arrogance that only market dominant companies can have: They were the IBM of the PC, and IBM was the Apple of the mainframe. Twenty two years later, Apple is still stuck in consumer products, and still completely obtuse when it comes to market evolution.

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OSCE’s ascension is the proof of NATO’s failure in ending conflicts
With the disintegration of Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and with Russia becoming more of an ally than a threat, the viability & existence of NATO was no doubt at stake. Yet, with it being clear that the dismantling of NATO would be equal to the loss of US influence and control on European issues, it was taken for granted that under no circumstances would NATO be diluted. But with the passage of time and absence of any major threat to Europe from the so-called hostile nation state and with the increasing hegemony of USA over international affairs, the rise and increasing prominence of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation from Europe (OSCE) has been a foregone conclusion. OSCE, a legacy of the Cold War era, today has around 56 countries as its members, which permeate the typical East-West European divide of the past.

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Travelguru is on the cusp of being called just that, what with the potential of massive wealth and value creation

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No! They don’t make magic carpets (oh, how we wish someone could!), but they do promise to offer economic and value travel services. Struck by an idea in the year 2004 when he was working for a project in Harvard University for JetBlue, his former employer, Ashwin Damera scripted the beginnings of this emerging company – Travelguru – which has, within two years’ existence, grown into a business worth nearly Rs.60 crores. Riding on an accelerated growth curve, the company has only set unbelievable visionary targets for itself, and yes, with all their seat belts supremely fastened.

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A neo age debut...

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...or a tough sporting debacle in store
Unlike countless Indian batsmen who become jittery at the sight of a typically overcast condition and a greenish top, Neo Sports entered a wicked wicket with seasoned players ESPN-Star Sports, Zee Sports and Ten Sports. And, the channel has so far made an eye-popping debut but will it survive among the gaints? Starting with Neo Sports, exclusively for cricket sure raised a few eyebrows, but Neo Sports Plus was soon shaped to broadcast domestic cricket in India.

Plus also bagged access to football tournaments like Copa Libertadores, Serie A, Bundesliga & Copa Sudamericana, along with badminton events: Thomas Cup, the Uber Cup, World Badminton Championships & Sudirman Cup.

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SEZs on hold, millions to behold

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In West Bengal, the Salim Group will develop the SEZ and also build a 100 km six-lane expressway bypassing Kolkata and the new township at Rajarhat & Salt Lake.

Reliance Industries announced an investment of Rs.670 billion in the Jamnagar SEZ where Chevron is a partner, and another Rs.400 billion to set up the SEZ on 25,000 acres of land between Gurgaon and Jhajjar, near Delhi. The Adani group plans to pump in Rs.250 billion in ports and SEZs. DLF plans SEZs at Ambala (2,500 acres) and Gurgaon (19,880 acres); it is investing Rs.8 billion in a 1,100 acre SEZ in Amritsar. Unitech has obtained clearance for a Rs.100 billion, 20,000-acre SEZ in Haryana and the Ansals have joined hands with the housing finance major, HDFC, for developing a Rs.10 billion IT SEZ in Noida (NCR).

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India must exploit this US tie-up
With new avenues in Indo-US legal services opening up, the good news for legal practitioners in India is that they would now have the option to rake in more moolah working for multinational legal firms. Thanks to the recent decision taken by the Deputy US Trade Representative Karan Bhatia and Indian Commerce Secretary Gopal Pillai; the Bilateral Working Group on Legal Services comprising prominent legal professionals, representatives of US and Indian law firms, the American Bar Association and the Bar Council of India will be constituted in 2007.

With economic and military relations between the two nations registering robust trends, it is imperative to enhance synergies in the legal field to ensure smooth bilateral commerce, because “Legal services are integral to today’s complex, global economy,” says Karan Bhatia. “The lawyers from either country are not permitted to practice in the other, the latest initiative will help in ironing out the legal wrangles for co-operation,” thumps Supreme Court advocate Mala Narain.

The Working Group will be looking at promotion of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) sector. Currently, Indian LPO holds only 4% share in the international LPO sector, the major player of which is undoubtedly the US. One of the reasons for co-operation is that a majority of Indian legal professionals are not really in tune with global legal practices demanded by MNCs.

This welcome development will not only help the lawyers to attain better international standards, but also provide better services to common man in India and help introduce a semblance of order in the Indian courtrooms afflicted with inordinate delays and dirt. Ahem, at least that’s what we hope!

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