BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharam on Friday said that the downward revision of growth forecast by Fitch is a reflection of the government's inaction. Fitch Ratings on Friday cut its 2012 growth forecasts for India to 6 per cent from 6.5 per cent on deteriorating global growth outlook with diminished willingness or capacity to respond with domestic policy loosening, compared with 2009. India's economic outlook remains challenging. Investment rose just 0.7 ...
11:52 AM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft is renaming its vintage Hotmail email service as Outlook.com. Hotmail was still the world's largest email service with 324 million users (about 36 per cent of the market) but had been losing its market to Google's fast-growing Gmail. The name Outlook is familiar to most corporate workers who use the popular Microsoft Office email application. Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and...
07:07 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft unveiled a revamped, Facebook-friendly version of its free, online email service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse market share losses to Google's fast-growing Gmail. The world's largest software company is renaming its Hotmail service Outlook, giving it a sharp new look, social network links, and new features for handling the tide of junk and mass mail that swamps many users. Hotmail was still the world's largest online...
12:03 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Popular English weekly Outlook has put a smiling Barack Obama on its latest issue's cover, calling the US President 'The Underachiever,' a tag that was used by TIME a fortnight back to decribe Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. In its cover teaser, Outlook writes: "America needed a reboot " he promised hope and change. Four years on, President Barack Obama's sheen is gone. Can his lofty rhetoric carry him home...
09:25 AM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday rejected Fitch downgrade of India's credit outlook to negative saying the rating agency's action was based on "older data" as it ignored recent positive trends. "While the markets had already anticipated that Fitch would revise the outlook and so there is no surprise in the announcement, it must be pointed out that Fitch has primarily relied on older data, and has ignored...
06:20 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: Fitch Ratings has revised India's outlook to negative from stable. Its Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) have been affirmed at 'BBB-' and Short-Term Foreign Currency at 'F3'. India's Country Ceiling is also affirmed at 'BBB-'. The Outlook revision reflects heightened risks that India's medium- to long-term growth potential will gradually deteriorate if further structural reforms are not hastened, including measures to enhance the effectiveness of...
04:45 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Manila: India has some leeway to get reforms back on track with its long-term growth prospects firm, Tom Byrne, a senior vice president of rating agency Moody's Investors Service, said on Wednesday. "There is no imminent funding crisis because of policy slippages," Byrne told reporters at the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting in Manila, explaining the rating agency's stable outlook for India. Standard & Poor's last week cut India's outlook...
10:21 AM, May 02, 2012
Rating agency Standard and Poor has revised India's outlook from stable to negative, sending shockwaves across the market. ...
02:55 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Mumbai: Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut India's outlook to negative from stable, citing its large fiscal deficit and expectations of only modest progress on reforms given political constraints, battering stocks, bonds and the rupee. The lowered outlook jeopardises India's long-term rating of BBB-, which is the lowest investment grade rating. "The outlook revision reflects our view of at least a one-in-three likelihood of a downgrade if the...
12:29 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Manila: Developing Asia's rapid growth in recent years has given rise to a widening rich-poor divide that threatens to undermine the region's growth and stability, but governments can address the problem via shifts in spending priorities, the Asian Development Bank said. The region must spend more on education and health, create quality jobs and invest in infrastructure to reduce imbalances between developed and lagging rural areas so as to prevent...
10:20 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: For the second year running, Kerala has been rated the best tourist destination in the country, according to a survey. The survey says: "Kerala topping the list is a no-brainer." The survey was conducted by the Nielsen Company on behalf of the Outlook Traveller magazine. "The Outlook Survey has come as a big endorsement for Brand Kerala. It will spur us to take it forward with many more new...
11:23 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Name: Maheshwer Peri Age: 42 Education: CA, ICWA, ACS Designation: Publisher, Outlook group and Chairman and Publisher, Pathfinder Publishing Pvt Ltd. Career: Joined SBI Caps (1991 " 1995), later joined Hathway Investments at age 25 and started Outlook group. Moving now to Pathfinder Publishing which publishes two magazines Careers360 (in English & Hindi), COMPETITION 360 and runs a career counseling website www.careers360.com Passion/Interests: Watch Sports (tennis and football), Travelling, Reading...
10:40 AM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Vinod Mehta on Wednesday relinquished the charge as Editor-in-Chief of 'Outlook' after being in the post for 17 years. He will continue as advisor of the magazine. Krishna Prasad, at present the Editor, will now assume the post of Editor-in-Chief. "I am still with Outlook. I have just relinquished the day-to-day responsibilities. If somebody thinks that I am out of Outlook, they are wrong. I am still very...
08:47 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Chennai: Expressing his opinion on the legendary question of whether scribes and politicians can remain friends, senior journalist Vinod Mehta said on Friday that was "not possible." "I have given this a lot of thought. And I think we can't be friends. Because, fundamentally of our jobs. A politician's job is evasive... cheating and sometimes outright lies," Mehta, Editor-in-chief of Outlook, said launching his book 'Lucknow Boy' in Chennai. "Our...
09:42 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey has predicted that Indian employers are the most optimistic in hiring over the next three months as compared to their western counterparts with 57 per cent of Indian employers expected to increase staffing levels. Employers in all four zones report bullish hiring intentions for Quarter 2, 2011. The most optimistic forecast is reported by employers in the South, where the Net Employment Outlook...
01:07 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Arun Shourie gifted Tatas almost 773 acres of VSNL land alleges Outlook Magazine cover expose. ...
12:04 AM, Mar 23, 2011
According to IMF, It may take some time before the region's economies recover. ...
08:59 PM, May 07, 2009
The US Federal Reserve cut its forecast for the economy for 2009. ...
06:34 PM, Feb 19, 2009
