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11/02/2014

UPDATE 1-India IT sector exports seen picking up pace in FY15-Nasscom | Reuters

IT services exports in 2014-15 are forecast to rise to as much $99 billion, according to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).

NASSCOM 2010

NASSCOM 2010 (Photo credit: markhillary)

The increase in growth rate compares with an estimated 13 percent rise in fiscal 2014, the lobby added.

“Clearly compared to what we saw in the industry 12 months ago to now, we are seeing a far more positive momentum in our major markets,” Nasscom Chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan, also chief executive of IT firm Mindtree Ltd, told reporters.

Last month, the International Monetary Fund raised its global economic growth forecast for the first time in nearly two years.

India’s biggest IT services outsourcing firms, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, have forecast stronger growth for IT spending in the next fiscal year by their main customers in Europe and the United States.

via UPDATE 1-India IT sector exports seen picking up pace in FY15-Nasscom | Reuters.

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28/05/2013

* China Building Beachhead in Europe With $5 Billion Belarus City

Business Week: “China is building an entire city in the forests near the Belarusian capital Minsk to create a manufacturing springboard between the European Union and Russia.

China Building Beachhead in Europe With $5 Billion Belarus City

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko allotted an area 40 percent larger than Manhattan around Minsk’s international airport for the $5 billion development, which will include enough housing to accommodate 155,000 people, according to Chinese and Belarusian officials.

Lukashenko, who’s led his former Soviet state of 9.5 million for two decades, is turning to China to help revive a $60 billion economy that’s needed $6.5 billion of bailouts from the International Monetary Fund and Russia since 2009. The hub will put Chinese exporters within 170 miles of EU members Poland and Lithuania and give them tax-free entry into Russia and Kazakhstan, which share a customs union. It will also let them draw from a workforce that’s 99.6 percent literate and makes $560 a month on average, half the Polish wage.

“This is a unique project,” Gong Jianwei, China’s ambassador to Belarus, said on state television May 17, after the project won regulatory approval. “Nobody will be able to build anything like this industrial park anywhere else in Europe anymore. The infrastructure is so powerful.”

The “modern city on the Eurasian continent,” as it’s called in marketing documents, will be built around the M1 highway that links Moscow and Berlin via Belarus and Poland. A speed-rail network will tie the airport to the center of the city, which will be powered by a $10 billion nuclear plant, Belarus’s first, which Russia agreed to finance and build by 2018. The first stage of the park is scheduled to be completed by 2020, with the second stage taking another 10 years.”

via China Building Beachhead in Europe With $5 Billion Belarus City – Businessweek.

19/07/2012

* Pranab Mukherjee tipped to win India presidential poll

BBC News: “Voting is under way in India to elect a new president.

The front-runner is the country’s former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. He is being challenged by opposition candidate, Purno Sangma.

The position is largely ceremonial, but the new president could play a decisive role in determining who forms the next government when national elections are held in 2014.

The results of the poll are expected to be announced on 22 July.

The winner will replace Pratibha Patil, who was India’s first woman president.

PRANAB MUKHERJEE

The veteran Congress party leader Pranab Mukherjee was born in 1935 in West Bengal.

He was a teacher, a journalist and a lawyer before being elected in 1969 to the upper house of parliament. He has served as finance, foreign and defence minister, and has held other influential positions in the government.

He fell out with the Congress leaders in 1986 and started his own party, but returned to the party fold two years later. He has served on the boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Indian presidents are not elected directly by the people but by an electoral college made up of members of parliament and state assemblies.”

via BBC News – Pranab Mukherjee tipped to win India presidential poll.

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