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Imagining India by Nandan
Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book
about modern India.
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India's
Global Powerhouses
Introduces you to India's preeminent global
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James Caan: The Real Deal
Biography of Dragon's Den star James Caan.
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Spinder
Dhaliwal: Making A Fortune
Learning from the Asian Phenomenon by
Spinder Dhaliwal
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Bilimoria: Bottled for Business
Guide to doing business the less gassy
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Doing Business in India
Authoritative manual of Doing Business in India.
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Outsourcing to India:
Pragmatic view on Outsourcing to India £38.50
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| India,
UK must push back frontiers of research:
Lord Mandelson |
 UK
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said
today that India and the UK must work
together to push back the frontiers
of research with scientists collaborating
in areas such as food and energy security.
The Business Secretary will visit one
of India’s most prestigious universities,
the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
in Bangalore, which celebrates its centenary
this year. 
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| One third of women bullied
at work, says Unison
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 One
third of young women are being bullied in
the workplace - in addition, 41% of female
workers claim they have been bullied at some
point in their career, according to research
by the trade union Unison. The most common
bullying was both mental and physical, with
workers complaining of exclusion, intimidation,
unrealistic deadlines and excessive monitoring
of their performance.
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| British
Science & Technology 'iAward' Winners
2009
|
 Winners
of the iAwards 2009, which celebrate the best
of British science, innovation and technology,
were announced on 18th November 2009. Topping
the honours list was Horizon Discovery Ltd,
a technology start-up company which scooped
the iaward of the Year for its hi-tech, ‘X-MAN
Model Cancer Patient’; a product that
identifies patients most likely to respond
to particular cancer treatments.
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| High-impact firms are key
to unlocking growth in creative industries
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 Just
7.5% of the UK's creative businesses hold
the key to employment and economic growth
in the sector, according to research released
by NESTA. Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive
of NESTA, also outlined the serious challenges
facing the UK's creative industries in the
digital age.
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| A cappuccino
crime-wave: middle managers defraud employers
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 Accounting
fraud is the fastest growing economic crime
experienced by organisations in the UK and
the world, says PwC in its Global Economic
Crime Survey. The GECS survey found almost
half of organisations in the UK had experienced
some form of economic crime in the last 12
months.
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| Cranfield
Female FTSE Index: 100 Women to Watch
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 The
annual Cranfield Female FTSE Index & Report
monitoring the male-female composition of
FTSE boardrooms, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers,
paints a discouraging picture for women’s
progress to the board of FTSE companies, and
claims “corporate Britain is failing
women.” CSarah Churchman, director of
Diversity, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said:
“Tthe report is a wake up call for more
than just the FTSE.
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| Scottish
Asian Business Awards 2009
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 The
Scottish Asian Business Awards 2009 paid tribute
to Asian business men and women, from business
giants to budding entrepreneurs, who are at
the forefront of their industry. Over 500
people attended the awards night on 11 November
2009 in Glasgow, including First Minister,
Alex Salmond; Secretary of State for Scotland,
Jim Murphy; Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and entrepreneur;
Charan Gill.
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| Jamal Hirani
loses his case against Shilpa Shetty's V8
Gourmet Group
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 Jamal
Hirani, the former Chief Executive Officer
of fast food chain 'TiffinBites' has lost
his case for unfair dismissal against the
new owners of the business, V8 Gourmet Group
- now part owned by Bollywood actress, Shilpa
Shetty. Hirani, who co-founded Tiffinbites
in 2002, had claimed £1.5million in
compensation but was awarded only the pre-agreed
sum of £1323 holiday pay.
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| Government
Response to Ethnic Minority Business Recommendations
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 “We
can’t afford to waste any business talent”,
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said today
as he launched new measures to ensure women
and ethnic minority business people have the
support to maximise their business potential.
The actions follow recommendations by the
Ethnic Minority Business Task Force and the
Women’s Enterprise Taskforce.
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| Indian CEOs
meet London Mayor Boris Johnson
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 The
UK Chief Executive Officers of large Indian
companies met with Boris Johnson, Mayor of
London, on 16 October 2009. With London as
a favoured location to base their businesses,
the CEOs discussed a range of issues with
the Mayor, from London's competitiveness as
a international business centre to transport
, policing and security & the Olympics
2012.
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| Rajeeb Dey
is named the O2 X 'Young Entrepreneur of the
Year' 2009
|
 23-year
old young Asian Rajeeb Dey has been named
the O2 X 'Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009'
for his internet company enternships.com -
a site that connects start-ups and small businesses
with students and graduates looking for entrepreneurial
work placements.
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| Five Indian-origin
women in the FT 'Top 50 Women in World Business'
list
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 Five
Indian-origin women are listed in the FT 'Top
50 Women in World Business' list, with Indra
Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo listed in first place.
Also listed are: Vinita Bali of India's Britannia
Industries in 22nd place, Ruby MacGregor-Smith,
CEO of UK-based Mitie Group in 32nd place,
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Indian biotechnology
company, Biocon, in 47th place and Shobana
Bhartia of India's HT Media group in 48th
place.
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| India is
the second largest foreign investor into the
UK
|
 India
is now the second-largest source of foreign
direct investment (FDI) into the UK up from
seventh last year, according to a recent UK
Trade and Investment report*. At the same
time the UK has become the biggest foreign
investor into India. In securing 1,744* inward
investment projects the UK has maintained
its standing as the number one investment
location in Europe for 2008/09.
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| Government
loan powers up Indian electric car maker
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 The
UK government today announced a £10M
loan to Tata Motors European Technical Centre
(TMETC) under the Automotive Assistance Programme,
set up to support investment in a lower carbon
future. The £10M loan will support £25M
of investment from Tata Motors to manufacture
electric vehicles in the UK. TMETC, a subsidiary
of Tata Motors, employs circa 180 people.
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| Gender Pay
Gap: City Women paid 80% less in bonuses
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 Women
in some of the UK’s leading finance companies
receive around 80% less in performance related
pay than male colleagues, an inquiry by the
Commission of Equality and Human Rights has
found. The finance sector has one of the highest
overall gender pay gaps in the UK economy
- with women working full-time earning 55%
less annual gross salary than men. This compares
to a pay gap of 28% for the economy generally.
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| CII’s
Young Indians (Yi) to launch a UK Chapter
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25 June 2009, a delegation from the Confederation
of Indian Industries - Young Indians (CII-Yi),
held a roadshow at the London offices of law
firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, hosted by Warsha
Kale. The delegates were in London to connect
with young entrepreneurs, businesses and professionals.
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| Kamel
Hothi, Asian Banker Extraordinaire |
 It
takes courage to agree to be interviewed on
the day your company announces the closure
of all outlets of a building society with
a loss of 1600 jobs, but Mrs Kamel Hothi is
no ordinary interviewee. Starting out as a
cashier in the Slough branch at the age of
sixteen, Hothi has risen to the role of Asian
Markets Director - Corporate Markets for the
Lloyds TSB group. With quiet fortitude, Kamel
Hothi is an Asian Banker Extraordinaire.
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| Bindi
Karia - Queen of Startups |
 How
many technology startups have you been involved
with? One, maybe two? How about 600, in just
six months! This is the astonishing feat that
Asian woman Bindi Karia, VC/Emerging Business
lead for Microsoft UK, has achieved since
the launch of the company's UK BizSpark program
in 2008. Karia attributes her success to being
"in the right place at the right time".
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| Asian
Business loses out on London Olympics 2012
contracts |
 Asian
businesses in the UK are in danger of losing
out on £2bn worth of London Olympic
2012 contracts due to a lack of information,
knowledge & inertia according to the Ethnic
Minority Business Group. The group's research
indicated that there was a perception of the
2012 contracts being "sewn up" among
larger companies.
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| UK BUSINESS
NEWS 2009 |
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India,
UK must push back frontiers of research:
Lord Mandelson (12/09)
One
third of women bullied at work, says Unison
(12/09)
British
Science & Techonology 'iAward' Winners
2009 (11/09)
High-impact
firms are key to unlocking growth in creative
industries (11/09)
A
cappuccino crime-wave: middle managers defraud
employers (11/09)
Cranfield
Female FTSE Index: 100 Women to Watch
(11/09)
'Entrereneur
for the World' Award Honours Four International
Personalities (11/09)
Global
Entrepreneurship Week, 16 - 20 November
2009 (11/09)
Scottish
Asian Business Awards 2009 (11/09)
New
Primark store faces 'Anti-Sweatshops' storm
(11/09)
Jamal
Hirani loses his case against Shilpa Shetty's
V8 Gourmet Group (11/09)
Government
Response to Ethnic Minority Business Recommendations
(11/09)
Indian
CEOs meet London Mayor Boris Johnson
(10/09)
GSK
gives British bioscience research a major
boost (10/09)
Is
the recession over for entrepreneurs?
(10/09)
UK
claims top spot as world’s leading
financial centre (10/09)
Rate
of decline in marketing spend eases in Q3
as optimism grows (10/09)
Jamal
Hirani sues V8 Gourmet Group for unfair
dismissal (10/09)
Battling
UK businesses see some unexpected upsides
(10/09)
Commission
launches new report on integration in the
workplace (10/09)
A
freeze on new business regulation will create
more than 300,000 jobs (10/09)
Rajeeb
Dey is named the O2 X' Young Entrepreneur
of the Year' 2009 (09/09)
Five
Indian-origin women in the FT 'Top 50 Women
in World Business' list (09/09)
India
is the second largest foreign investor into
the UK (09/09)
Baroness
Vadera 'to leave Government' for G20 role
(09/09)
Entrepreneurs
still heavily reliant on banks for funding
(09/09)
National
Enterprise Academy to train the next generation
of entrepreneurs (09/09)
Business
must do more to maintain the UK Higher Education
System (09/09)
Japanese
electronics giant, Canon, opens its new
European HQ in London (09/09)
Investing
in London fashion makes business sense,
says Mayor of London (09/09)
Government
loan powers up Indian electric car maker
(09/09)
London
and New York announce tourism agreement
(09/09)
Gender
Pay Gap: City Women paid 80% less in bonuses
(09/09)
Secure
post offices by creating dedicated Small
Business Hubs, says FSB (09/09)
Over
5,000 retailers to go 'bust' next year
(09/09)
Olderpreneurs
critical to economic growth, says NESTA
(09/09)
James
Caan: iAwards Will Promote Innovation In
British Business (08/09)
Jail
For Asian Businessman Who “Cannot Be
Trusted" (08/09)
First
Black CEO of a FTSE 100 Company (08/09)
Jaguar
Land Rover Funding Issues Settled - No Government
bailout needed (08/09)
New
research: More women than men work in higher
status occupations (08/09)
Digital
brings new hope to UK Independent film makers
(08/09)
ClubAsia
Radio in Administration (08/09)
FSB
warns against high street banks holding
small business monopoly (08/09)
India's
digital media industry will grow over 80%
year-in-year (08/09)
Conservative
Plan for Sound Banking for the UK (07/09)
Imran
Khand's Picsel Technologies in Administration
(07/09)
Indian
stocks soar despite market slowdown
(07/09)
Women
say they are filling recession skills gap
(07/09)
Business
Owners look to expand despite lack of 'green
shoots' of recovery (06/09)
CII’s
Young Indians (Yi) to launch a UK Chapter
(06/09)
Patricia
Hewitt appointed new Chair of the UK India
Business Council (06/09)
UK
Business start-up rates hold steady says
GEM Report 2008 (05/09)
UK
Migrants amnesty could benefit the economy
by £3 billion (05/09)
Why
did so many senior women leave BP? (05/09)
Kamel
Hothi, Asian Banker Extraordinaire (05/09)
Lloyds
Banking Group closes all C&G branches
with a loss of 1600 jobs (05/09)
European
inward investment stalls as recession looms
(05/09)
Cobra
Beer, latest victim of the 'credit crunch'
(05/09)
Employers
see equality and diversity as a business
issue, despite recession
(05/09)
Bindi
Karia - Queen of Startups (05/09)
Entrepreneurs
aim to ride out downturn without cutting
jobs (05/09)
Islamic
funds growth stalls but investable assets
grow (05/09)
Glass
Ceiling a Distraction: It should be about
the Glass Ladder (05/09)
Royal
Mail technically insolvent says Mandelson
as Postal Services Bill passes Lords
(05/09)
Bombay's
Sensex trading halted after massive up surge
(05/09)
Asian
Business loses out on London Olympics 2012
contracts (05/09)
Entrepreneurs'
Summit: Don't Just Survive, Reinvent!, Wednesday
13 May 2009 (04/09)
Kick-starting
the Sustainable Economy, Wednesday 6 May
2009 (05/09)
London
high earners hit four times harder than
rest of UK (04/09)
UK
insolvencies continue to rise – businesses
not adjusting to the downturn (04/09)
Budget
2009: 'Triumph of hope over experience'
say experts (04/09)
Dragon
calls for missing Asian business leaders
to step up (04/09)
Recession
takes its toll on women, threatening an
equality timebomb for UK (04/09)
Worst
of downturn for UK plc yet to come says
Ernst & Young report (04/09)
G20
London Summit: 2nd April 2009 (03/09)
Representation
of women in UK boardroom lags behind Asia
(03/09)
Business
start-ups steady in 2008 (03/09)
Born
out of recession – the UK’s next
generation of entrepreneurs (03/09)
Bill
Gates is world's richest man; 355 drop off
Forbes' billionaires' list (03/09)
A
third of working Muslim women see themselves
as future CEOs (03/09)
Luxury
brands got India strategy wrong, says expert
(03/09)
Land
Rover Jaguar Appeals For UK Government Bailout
(03/09)
Lawyer
goes to court against Ratan Tata for 'helping'
Narendra Modi (03/09)
Nano
will add to global pollution, says Australian
expert (03/09)
India
gets the world's cheapest car in little
Nano (03/09)
Britain's
First Black CEO of a FTSE 100 Company
(03/09)
UK
Lifestyle Franchise Showcase: 25 March 2009
(03/09)
Growing
numbers of overseas students continue to
strengthen London (03/09)
East
meets West for final of the Global Enterprise
Challenge (03/09)
Mayor
offer overseas investors help to set up
in the capital (03/09)
Government
schemes have yet to be implemented: Tories
(03/09)
Tata
builds new Data Centre in the UK (03/09)
Indian
Foodstuffs company named 'Best UK Family
Business (03/09)
The
CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Awards 2009
(02/09)
Ahmedabad,
Jaipur & Nagpur: ‘locations to
watch’ for next outsourcing boom
(02/09)
Small
firms urged to sign up for Government contracts
(02/09)
Pharma
CEOs more confident than leaders of other
industries (02/09)
Indian
companies continue to outperform AIM listed
firms (02/09)
Fraud
nears record levels in 2008 (02/09)
London
Development Agency to organise more Business
Advice Seminars (01/09)
One
Stop Shop for Guidance on Health & Safety
and Employment Issues (01/09)
Corus
to cut 3,500 jobs in 'body blow' to British
economy (01/09)
Indian
M&A remains resilient despite 41% value
drop (01/09)
2008
Administrations up 20%, with Recruitment
Sector Worst Hit (01/09)
UK
officially in recession: Unemployment fears
rise in small businesses (01/09)
UK
business should look towards the rising
stars of India (01/09)
UK
companies increasing business in India
(01/09)
Administrators
appointed to Madan Showan's Empire Direct
plc (01/09)
Solankis
acquire British Asian tabloid 'Eastern Eye'
(01/09)
Indian
economy will recover earlier than global
economy: Azim
Premji
(01/09)
New
Report on how mobile phones will aid economic
growth in India (01/09)
Vodafone
to invest heavily in India (01/09)
Blueprints
for Business: A proven route to success:
Tuesday 24 Feb 2009
Raju
diverted Rs.74 bn ($1.48 billion) for personal
gain: Prosecutor (01/09)
Business
nightmares and how to recover from them
(01/09)
Dragon
to breath fire for Ethnic Minority Task
Force (01/09)
Government
launches £10bn Working Capital Scheme to
help SMEs (01/09)
Mayor
welcomes Vijay Amin to the ‘London
Leaders’ programme (01/09)
British
boardrooms shut out blacks, Asians: research
(01/09)
Satyam
fraud has diaspora question corporate governance
(01/09)
Shocked
Satyam employees begin job hunting (01/09)
Satyam'
s Ramalinga Raju: From Andhra's pride to
disgrace (01/09)
Satyam
head quits after admitting massive fraud,
stock crashes (01/09)
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