New Delhi: Employees across corporate India are expected to get a lower average salary hike of 11.54 per cent in 2012 compared to last year as companies are grappling with sluggish economic activities, says a survey. As per the survey conducted by HR consulting firm Right Step Consulting, the salary hikes for India will decline to 11.54 per cent in 2012 from 11.89 per cent in 2011. "After having grown...
04:40 AM, Apr 12, 2012
CHENNAI: Denying the joys of sexual intercourse to people over 50, is directly related to the increasing instances of child sexual abuse in the country, says noted sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy. After releasing an extensive study titled Sex and the Aging Indian, accumulated over two decades, Dr Reddy pointed out that a large number of elderly people were denied sex, causing this problem. It is almost an established train of...
08:24 AM, Apr 11, 2012
BANGALORE: As per a recommendation, at least 40 per cent of BEd colleges under Bangalore University (BU) have to be closed due to inadequate independent buildings, classrooms, libraries and computer centres. The recommendation is based on a survey conducted between December 2011 and February 2012 by Karan Kumar H, a member of the varsitys Academic Council.Apart from infrastructure flaws, the survey recorded gross non-adherence to rules concerning the way academic...
09:25 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Almost 90 per cent of households in Kerala have telephone connections (land line or mobile) in 2011, a staggering rise over the 19.1 per cent in 2001, according to the house listing and housing Census conducted ahead of the Census 2011. The detailed figures, released here by the census directorate, revealed that households in Kottayam district had the highest number of telephones at 93.90 per cent, while the least...
05:57 PM, Mar 30, 2012
KOCHI: Are doctors in Kerala dying young, mostly of life-style related ailments? Yes, if the Kerala chapter of the Indian Medical Association is to be believed. IMAs social security schemes show that 45 doctors died last year and over half of them were below 50. Most deaths were triggered by heart-related issues caused by excessive stress and in some cases, cancer. But the statistics pertain only to those doctors covered...
09:25 AM, Mar 23, 2012
London: Sales of smartphones with Microsoft Windows software have surpassed those using Nokia's old Symbian system in Britain, research showed on Tuesday, a sign of progress in Nokia's switch to Microsoft software. Data for the three months to mid-February, after the launch of Nokia's Windows-based Lumia 800 model, showed Microsoft's market share rose 5-fold to 2.5 per cent in the British market, which is considered an indicator of Europe-wide trends....
11:45 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Toronto: Apple has cemented its dominance as the most popular mobile platform among application developers while Google's Android has receded and Research In Motion's devices plunged anew, according to a quarterly survey that may signal sales trends for mobile devices. The survey, which asked developers if they were interested in writing programs for various devices, showed Google's Android slipped even though sales of devices powered by the operating system surged....
01:58 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Due to the government's dire situation, especially when it comes to the fiscal deficit, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu tells CNBC-TV18 that the mantra this year is going to be fiscal consolidation. "Fiscal consolidation is definitely on the cards because the lack of it will have an adverse effect on prices and economic growth," he said. However, he isn't confident of many reforms going through this year. The author of...
07:27 AM, Mar 16, 2012
The Economic Survey says the the economy will grow by 7-8 per cent in the next fiscal, inflation will moderate. ...
04:40 PM, Mar 15, 2012
The Economic Survey 2011-12 suggests policies to put India on a surer footing for sustained, inclusive growth and all-round development. The survey takes note of the Government fighting malaise of inflation with numerous calibrated steps which constituted a combination of policies to improve supply, especially of food and basic agricultural products and curb fiscal and revenue deficits. Independently, the Reserve Bank of India tightened the monetary policy. While the battle...
03:49 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Economic Survey has been tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday. Following is the full text of The Economic Survey 2011-12 HIGHLIGHTS OF ECONOMIC SURVEY 2011-12 Following are the highlights of Economic Survey 2011-12: Rate of growth estimated to be 6.9 per cent. Outlook for growth and stability is promising with real GDP growth expected to pick up to 7.6 per cent in 2012-13...
02:06 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Economic Survey has maintained FY12 GDP growth at 6.9 per cent. FY13 growth is expected to come in at 7.6 per cent and FY14 growth is pegged at 8.6 per cent. The survey, however, has projected 6.5-7 per cent inflation rate by March 2013. According to sources, the Economic Survey also recommends fixed subsidy per litre of diesel sold. According to the survey, states' fiscal consolidated was...
12:19 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Mumbai: The BSE Sensex snapped four-day winning streak on Thursday, losing as much as 297 points intraday after the RBI's dovish tone in its monetary policy review and left policy rates unchanged. Even profit booking ahead of big event Union Budget 2012-13 (on Friday) may be another reason for driving the Nifty below 5400 level. The most worried point for the market today is that high expectations from RBI. The...
09:18 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: A day before the Union Budget to be presented in Parliament, as is customary, the Finance Ministry will release the Economic Survey outlook, its view on the state of the economy on Thursday. The report is likely to suggest measures to kickstart a double-digit economic growth and present a wishlist for the Indian economy. The economy is expected to hit 6.9 per cent growth for 2011-2012, the slowest...
07:17 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Indian companies are lining up robust hiring plans for the next quarter, beginning April 1, making India the most optimistic country in terms of job creation, a survey said. A dynamic pace of hiring is expected across all the regions in the country during April to June period of 2012, while services and financial sectors could see the maximum job creation activities, HR consultancy major Manpower said in...
02:38 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Port-au-Prince: A moderate earthquake has rattled southern Haiti, causing some people to run out of buildings in fear. There were no immediate reports of damage. The United States Geological Survey is reporting that the magnitude 4.6-quake was centred 38 kilometres southeast of the capital of Port-au-Prince and had a depth of 4.9 kms. It struck at 9:51 pm EDT. Some residents of capital ran into the streets in fear, remembering...
11:08 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: UPA General Secretary Rahul Gandhi may have attracted the crowds in Uttar Pradesh but not the votes with the Congress vote-share set to dip. Congress General secretary Digvijaya Singh put up a brave front and said that he and not Rahul will be responsible if the party does badly in Uttar Pradesh. "I have always held that leadership can create a wave, can create the enthusiasm but it...
07:29 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: It's a Samajwadi Party (SP) wave in Uttar Pradesh. In what is most likely to be one of the biggest electoral victories in UP in the last 20 years, Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP is bound to surprise by garnering an impressive 34 per cent of the votes in the Assembly elections 2012. The CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by CSDS also says that a vote-share of 34 per...
09:24 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Punjab is locked in a close contest between the SAD-BJP alliance and the Congress, with the former ahead by a narrow margin, according to the latest post-poll survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in association with The Week and CNN-IBN. According to the survey, the SAD-BJP is still expected finish on top again by retaining 51-63 seats, which is, however, much less than...
07:21 PM, Mar 03, 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
