Chief Minister of Haryana addresses Business Leaders in US

August 20, 2015 – Washington DC- Today a group of U.S. industry executives from the U.S.- India Business Council (USIBC) met with the Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr. Manohar Lal for a discussion about investment opportunities in the state of Haryana.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal engaged with senior business executives on important topics that have dominated the bilateral commercial relationship in recent months and addressed areas such as Haryana’s comparative edge as an investment destination and regulatory reform measures that have been undertaken by the government to promote ease of doing business in the state through its New Enterprise Promotion Policy 2015, Happening Haryana.

Emphasizing investment opportunities in Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar Lal said, “We strive to attract both international and domestic business in to the state of Haryana. To achieve this end, I am proud of the reform efforts that have gone in to making public services more efficient— land registration is now enabled through information technology (IT), long-pending land acquisition cases have been resolved and infrastructure construction is faster as evidenced by the completion of the Delhi-Faridabad Metro project and restarting of work on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. We are pushing for policy reforms in a manner that will place Haryana as a business- friendly state and create jobs. I welcome American enterprise to be a part of our state’s growth.”

Lauding the vision of Chief Minister Manohar Lal, Mukesh Aghi, President of USIBC, said, “Since 2000, the state of Haryana has emerged as a major investment hub in Northern India. The city of Gurgaon is a key center for the information technology and automotive industries. The state’s Enterprise Promotion Policy 2015 aims at enhancing ease of doing business, promotes micro, small-scale and medium enterprises and encourages long-term investment in the state to flourish. All these measures are critical for not just enhancing the perception of doing business in India, but also indicate the reality of ease of doing business.”

Sonny Khurana, President and CEO of iTECH, a leading distribution company in the telecom sector, said, "Haryana, with its diversified economy and vibrant cities is well positioned to leverage initiatives such as Make in India and Smart Cities. Emerging markets are important for iTECH’s business model. A pro-growth government, under the visionary leadership of Mr. Manohar Lal, places Haryana as a strong hub for future investment opportunities.”

The round table discussion focused on key areas for investment promotion in the state that include energy related initiatives, aerospace, food processing, auto/auto components and mass rapid transport.

The event was attended by companies and senior leaders from every major sector of business— Blumberg Grain, IREO, Coca Cola, Wipro, Capital Novus, Cargill, Medtronic, Uber and Boston Scientific.

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Pharma Solution division receives four CMO Leadership Awards 2015

Piramal Enterprises’ Pharma Solution division receives four CMO Leadership Awards 2015

New Delhi: Piramal Enterprises' Pharma Solution division, a global leader in contract development and manufacturing (CDMO), was a big winner in the recent CMO Leadership Awards held in Boston, USA, securing four awards in three key categories: Quality, Reliability, & Regulatory. Respondents from Big Pharma, Mid-sized and Specialty Pharma, and Emerging Pharma, voted Piramal to be amongst the top 10% in these categories.

The CMO Leadership Awards by Life Science Leader magazine is based on industry leading research conducted by Nice Insight. Nice insights surveys over 11,000 industry executives - buyers of outsourced services annually, to determine perception and awareness scores of CMOs for five different attributes (i.e. Innovation, Productivity, Quality, Regulatory, and Reliability). The four categories in which the Pharma Solution division has won are:

§ Reliability for Big Pharma

§ Reliability for Mid-Size & Specialty Pharma

§ Regulatory for Mid-Size & Specialty Pharma

§ Quality for Emerging Pharma

Companies achieving top 20 percentile perception scores across these 5 attributes are recognized for their achievement.

For 2015, the research respondents were broken in to 5 categories: Big Pharma (BP), Mid-Size & Specialty Pharma (MP), Emerging Pharma (EP), Biotech (BT) and Emerging Biotech (EBT). The top 10% in each of these above categories were chosen as winners of CMO leadership awards. Unlike other industry awards, which are given based on a subjective voting or nomination process, the only votes that count towards the CRO/CMO Leadership Awards are those of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies using CRO/CMO services. The research respondents of all categories voted Piramal Enterprises’ Pharma Solution division to be amongst the top 10% in these categories.

Mr. Vivek Sharma, CEO – Piramal Pharma Solutions said, “We are delighted to receive this prestigious award and to be recognized in multiple areas and categories. The award serves as a validation of our efforts to keep the customer as the focal point, while emphasizing on project ownership, time delivery and commitment towards quality. This recognition from our clients will further motivate our team as we drive towards becoming the ‘partner of choice’. Receiving these awards also showcase our company values of entrepreneurship, expertise and trusteeship.”

Piramal Pharma Solutions is known for its capabilities as an integrated solutions provider offering comprehensive range of services across the drug lifecycle. With a successful performance record of over four decades in API supply, Drug Products, and Drug Discovery services, and with supply facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia; it has established itself as a global market leader. To serve its partners better, Piramal Pharma Solutions continues to invest in next generation technologies and R&D: recent investments include areas such as Anti-Body Drug Conjugation (ADC), Biocatalysis Center of Excellence, and Advanced Flow Reactor (AFR) systems. In addition to investing $40M in new equipment and technologies, they are also augmenting related infrastructure. Recently the company completed a green field facility ($10M) to double its Discovery Services capacity, and also approved a $20M capacity expansion for Hormonal (Morpeth) and ADC (Grangemouth) manufacturing.

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10 million Indians want to move to US: Gallup Poll

According to a latest opinion poll, More than 100 million people from across the world, including 10 million people from India, would like to move permanently to the US.


The Gallup poll said that 19 million Chinese would like to move to the US, followed by 13 million from Nigeria, 10 million from India and six million from Brazil and Bangladesh, each. The poll said about 13 per cent of the world's adults or about 630 million people, said that they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently.



That somewhere else would be the US, for roughly 138 million people. The poll said that the US is the number one desired destination for potential migrants. Among other top rank choices for potential migrants are The UK, Canada, and France it said.

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US to Allow small knives, bats and golf clubs on Planes from April 25

Under a policy change announced by the head of the US Transportation Security Administration. Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month. The policy goes into effect on April 25.


The agency said in a statement, that. The new policy conforms US security standards to international standards and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats.

The announcement drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still dangerous in the hands of the wrong passengers.

Transport Workers Union Local 556, called the new policy "dangerous" and "shortsighted," saying it was designed to make "the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer. While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin."

David Castelveter, a spokesman for the agency, said. The policy change was based on a recommendation from an internal TSA working group, which decided the items represented no real danger.

The presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air marshals and airline crew members trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against misuse of the items, he said”.

The policy is aimed at allowing passengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades and other knives.

The new policy permits folding knives with blades that are 2.36 inches (6 centimeters) or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch (1-centimeter) wide, novelty-sized baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs, but Box cutters, razor blades and knives that don't fold or that have molded grip handles will still be prohibited, the TSA said. The agency said, passengers also will be allowed to bring onboard as part of their carry-on luggage.

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Barack Obama’s Oath as President, emotional inaugural speech

After winning the second term Presidential election, Barack Obama took oath as president in the Oval Office of White House, Washington on Sunday. He is 44th President of United States of America. During an inaugural ceremony at Capitol, he again repeated the oath before thousands of audience.

Here is the Oath –

“I, Barrack Hussain Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United State and will to the best of ability; preserve, protect and defend the constitution of United States. So help me God. Thank you.”

Here is a quick look video of the inaugural speech -

In his inaugural speech to the thousands of audience, Obama stressed upon the resilience of the people of United States of America and how they defended themselves against crisis, both financial and climatic. He also mentioned the end of a decade of war.

On his speech Obama mentioned the founding fathers, declaration of independence, freedom, crisis, economy and many other subjects. Talking about economic recovery he said “We do not believe that Freedom is reserved for lucky or happiness for the few.”

In a strong voice he mentioned that USA and its people will respond to any crisis in future to save the future of their next generations. He also stressed upon giving equal treatments to homosexual persons and will help them build their identity.

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Advantages and Pitfalls of U.S STEM Immigration Reform Act

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Last Friday the House of Representatives at US Congress had shown a green signal to the most conspicuous STEM act with a partisan vote of 245 to 139. Among the 245, 218 are republican while 27 Democrats supported the bill. While 134 democrats voted against the bill with five more republicans support. As per STEM act, foreign students who have achieved highest degrees from USA universities in Science, Engineering, Technology and Math majors will be given Permanent Visa or Green cards to be permanent residents of USA. Well, when you hear it sounds actually good, but there are some pitfalls of this act. Let’s have a look:

Advantages:

• Economic growth and job creation
• American employers can hire talented foreign students who are previously turned down due to Visa issues and joined to other global competitors
• Such green card holders will have the right to start companies and create more jobs
• This green card can help the resident to bring their spouse or children permanently into U.S after they make 1 year in the green card wait-list
• America will be the major hub for science and technology in future

Pitfalls:

• To avail green cards for STEM graduates, STEM act will eliminate the diversity visa program or “green card lottery”, now available in US immigration law. As per the diversity program, each year USA government gives permanent visas or green cards through a lottery to 55,000 immigrants. Now with STEM act, these 55,000 DE-allocated green cards will be reallocated to STEM graduates.
• STEM act excludes majors like Arts, Literature, Journalism, Business and Management which are now most of demanding subjects around the world.
• India, Pakistan, China and several other countries don’t come up under the diversity program. So we really doubt whether these green cards will be available for students from these countries. 
• Apart from the above, more than 50% of African immigrants to USA will be affected by STEM.

Criteria for PhD or Masters Degrees Qualifications

• STEM graduates who have received a doctorate or a two years masters degrees from an eligible U.S. university in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or the physical sciences (other than biological sciences) are eligible for STEM green cards. Masters degree students will also have to have a college major with a STEM field.
• Students who have completed their complete coursework (internet courses) in USA with a physical presence are eligible.
• You’ll be eligible if you’re petitioned by an employer who has gone through labor certification and willing to hire you in case of insufficiency of American candidates

Know more about STEM act at U.S House of Representatives Site here.

What’s there for Indian Students in STEM act?

Well, the law is same for everyone and talented students who achieve masters or doctoral in one of the STEM fields are surely eligible for Green Cards. About the diversity program, India is not eligible to be a part of the program due to high immigration rates and also several other Asian countries are on the same side.

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Now enjoy free incoming calls on Airtel mobile while travelling to United States

New Delhi, November 27, 2012: Bharti Airtel a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa today announced the launch of three new International Roaming Packs for post-paid mobile customers travelling to United States of America. Customers can get upto 5 hours of free incoming calls while travelling in USA, and also make outgoing calls to local USA numbers as well as outgoing calls back to India at just Rs.20/min.

Available in three different tariff packs of INR 1000/-, INR 3500/-, and INR 8500/- with a validity of 30 days each, the tariff plan allows customers to easily stay in touch with family and friends back home at affordable rates on their airtel India postpaid number. Also their family and friends in India can call them at local India rates. Customers can activate the pack by messaging the respective activation keyword to 121 for the selected pack and enjoy the discounted rates. Standard roaming rates would apply for all other outgoing international calls, messaging and data usage.

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“iKill” Infographic Charts - Have a look

Look at this chart, you will come now about the iphone production at the cost of everything. A very good presentation revealing truth behind the big success.


Created by: Online MBA Programs (web: onlinembaprograms . org )

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US Debt Bill: House Approves but Senate Rejects

The US debt bill crisis still continues causing concern to the global investors,as the treasure will be running out of debt to meet the country's bills.

The emergency legislation, the debt bill has bee approved in the House but Senate scuttled it less than two hours later.

This is very a tough situation for the economy as the bill needs to be approved at any cost to save the country for being declared default .

First time in the history, the US economy hangs in the balance over the debt ceiling bill.

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