The Forbidden Kingdom Opens Up (A Little)
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- The secluded Himalayan kingdom has always been fiercely protective of its Buddhist-oriented heritage. Above, the Punakha Dzong, which is the second oldest dzong in Bhutan.
Until the 1970s, Bhutan had a no-tourist policy. It was feared outside visitors would corrupt the country's culture and spoil its pristine natural habitat.
The secluded Himalayan kingdom – often described as the last Shangri-La – has always been fiercely protective of its Buddhist-oriented heritage. This explains policies like the country's dress code, which requires Bhutanese to wear traditional robes, and the late arrival of television, first introduced in 1999, a day after the access to the Internet was also allowed.
Even today, few can say they've been to Bhutan, a mountainous country sandwiched between China and India. Tourism is still tightly regulated but this may change as Bhutan sets out to more-than-double the number of tourists it attracts as soon as next year.
Bhutan, which in 2010 counted 40,000 tourists, hopes to draw 100,000 visitors in 2012, says Kesang Wangdi, the head of the country's tourism council. The numbers pale in comparison to the over five million people that visit India every year. But it's a lot for Bhutan, which has a population of 700,000. So far Bhutan seems to be on the right track: between January and April, the number of tourists increased 62% from a year earlier.
But the country's tourism council is very picky about what kind of tourists [...]
Study to Map India’s Neurological Disorders
The study, the first of its kind in India, is being carried out by the International Clinical Epidemiology Network Trust, which works on improving health care research in the developing world. The network's executive director, pediatrician Narendra K. Arora, said the study will begin diagnosis on a sample population after the monsoon, and should provide the first concrete sense of the extent of neurological disabilities in India by early next year.
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- A physiotherapist assists a child at a rehabilitation centre in Hyderabad on the eve of World Disability Day.
The University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin are partners in the study.
Dr. Arora said the reported incidence of neurological development disorders in India appears to be extremely low compared to other countries with better diagnosis programs.
"The census-administered data is around 2% of population," said Dr. Arora, adding that developed countries report rates at closer to 10% to 15%. "Certainly it is underestimated in India."
A 2007 World Bank study said that some estimates suggest that the Indian population with disabilities could be between 40 million and 90 million, or between 4% and 8% of the population at the time.
In the first phase of the disabilities study, which should begin around September, the study will look at 6,000 children at eight sites across the country, said Dr. Arora, and in the second phase it [...]
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CBSE All India PMT/PDT Entrance Examination are being informed that there results has been announced. As per details Central Board of Secondary Education has just announced the All India PMT/PDT Entrance Final Examination Results 2011 today on May 30th, 2011. Candidates of CBSE PMT/PDT Entrance Exam who wanted to check their results will need to visit the CBSE PMT/PDT Result link which is given below. Candidates would be asked to enter their roll number in order to obtain their PMT/PDT results 2011. AIPMT stands for All India Pre Medical / Pre Dental Test or All India Pre Medical / Pre Dental Entrance Examination.
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Release Date: October 27, 2011
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Reliance Communications Awaits White Knight
Reliance Communications Ltd. – India’s second largest mobile phone company by subscribers – needs an investor with a fat wallet and a big heart to help wipe the 320.49 billion rupees ($7.11 billion) debt off its books.
- Reinhard Krause/Reuters
- Reliance Communications’ stock has been pummeled over the last year.
Until then, the high interest costs on the debt – which it took to pay for third generation mobile services and expand its network base – will continue to eat into its profitability.
The company, a unit of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, late Monday posted a bigger-than-expected drop in its January-March net profit, which tumbled 86% to 1.69 billion rupees. The 11th straight year-on-year decline in quarterly profit came even as the company's revenue shot up nearly 37% to 69.50 billion rupees.
This growth was spurred by a change in the accounting treatment of revenue from the sale of network capacity to customers, leading to an additional 25.45 billion rupees in revenue for the quarter.
The stock opened lower Tuesday, but the performance wasn't as weak as dealers had expected and it later advanced to close up 2.2% at 89.40 rupees (the benchmark Sensex ended 1.5% higher), as investors were encouraged by news of a potential sale.
In a statement released just before the Mumbai exchange opened, Reliance Communications said it had received several “formal indicative offers” to buy its controlling [...]
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Study: Indians Most Optimistic About Retirement
India topped a list of countries in its hopefulness about retirement, according to a recent report by HSBC of people's expectations about their post-work life.
- Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
- The study noted that optimism about retirement was in inverse proportion to the age of the respondent.
As many as 78% of Indian respondents said they expected to be better off than their parents when they retire. The next most optimistic people were the Chinese, while the French were the least hopeful, with the vast majority of them answering that they would be less well off than their parents, the annual survey said.
About 74% of Indian respondents also said they felt very or at least partially financially prepared for retirement, again putting it near the top of the list, well above the global average of 56% who feel that way.
The study questioned around 17,000 working people across 17 countries, which included both developed nations like the U.S. and France and emerging economies like Brazil, China and India.
It probably helps that for most Indians, retirement is quite far off (the study noted that optimism about retirement was in inverse proportion to the age of the respondent). While many other countries in the survey are rapidly aging, India, the world's second-most populous nation has a working-age population that is likely to increase for at least the next three decades.
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