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Private
funds gross US$ 1 billion in India Inc in 2005
تصل
قيمة
الصناديق
الخاصة في
شركة إنديا
المحدودة
بمعدل بليون
دولار
أمريكي خلال
عام 2005م.
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Private equity firms have
grossed nearly $1 billion through stake sales in Indian companies in the
first six months of this year. Says Donald Peck, managing partner of
private equity firm Actis, “We have been bullish on India for a long time. We believe that the Indian market will generate adequate returns for us. Our
strategic investments in sectors like components, FMCG, healthcare, and
speciality chemicals, to name only a few, are on the right track.” This upbeat
sentiment is reflected in the investment appetite of private equity
investors in the country. Private equity funds are said to have pumped in
around $1 billion in India Inc since January ’2005. And, with private
equity activity revving up, deal sizes are becoming bigger too. The
average investment has gone up from $5-10 million to $20-30 million.
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India's forex reserves up by US$ 623 million
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 ترتفع
قيمة
احتياطي
العملات
الخارجية
للهند بمعدل
623 مليون
دولار أمريكي.
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India's foreign exchange reserves resumed their upward
journey, rising by US$ 623 million during the week ended August 26,
2005. The reserves, which had fallen by $1.1 billion after continuously
rising for three previous weeks, stood at $1,43,841 million, according
to the Reserve Bank of India's weekly statistical supplement. Foreign
currency assets also increased by $616 million, standing at $1,37,999
million as on August 26, RBI said. The rise in inflows is primarily
due to revaluation of non-US foreign currencies such as Euro, Sterling and Yen, analysts said.
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India rated among top five tourist destinations
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تعتبر
الهند من
ضمن اكبر
الاماكن
الخمسة السياحية
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Giving a further boost to
the aggressive 'Incredible India' campaign of India Tourism, the
prestigious UK magazine "Conde Nast Traveller" has rated
the country fifth among the top ten travel destinations in the
world. "India is one of the most inimitable, incomparable
travel destinations in the world," the magazine said while
announcing the annual readers Travel awards 2005 in the current
issue, which hit the stands this week. "Conde Nast's recognition
confirms India's growing stature as a fastest growing tourism
destination," the Minister of State for Tourism said.
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India: An idea whose time has come
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الهند:
الفكرة
التي آن
الأوان.
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India is increasingly attracting
the world’s interest for its impressive economic performance and is
likely to sustain its current growth figures, says the World
Economic Outlook (WEO) 2005 brought out by the International
Monetary Fund. Driven by liberalisation in the past two decades and
the start of a march toward a functioning market economy, India’s report card has been exciting both in terms of growth and stability. Its GDP grew
by 7.4 per cent in the first quarter and 6.6 per cent in the second
quarter of 2004-05, compared with 5.3 per cent and 8.6 per cent in
the corresponding quarters in 2003-04. With a 6.7 per cent growth
in Financial Year 2005, India stood tall over Brazil and Russia. While Brazil scored 3.7 in the same year, Russia fared better with a 6 per cent
growth.
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Exports
rise 25 per cent, at US$ 7.35 billion
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تَرتفعُ
الصادرات بمعدل
25%، تصل 7.35
بليون
دولار
أمريكي.
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India’s exports rose nearly 25 per cent to US$
7.35 billion in August 2005, compared with US$ 5.89 billion in
the corresponding period last year. Trade deficit, however,
widened to $3.14 billion in August 2005, against $2.04 billion in
August 2004, because of high imports. Import growth saw a
slowdown as it rose 32.44 per cent to $10.50 billion in August,
compared with $7.92 billion in the corresponding period last
year, according to the provisional trade data released by the
commerce & industry ministry. Imports grew 37.07 per cent to
$53.19 billion during April-August 2005 while exports were up 23
per cent to $35.76 billion at the end of the first five months of
the current financial year. Trade deficit during April-August
2005 increased to $17.43 billion, compared with $9.73 billion in
the corresponding period last year.
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India is the fastest growing market for
servers
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الهند
هي أسرع
سوق نامية
للخدماتِ.
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India has emerged as the fastest growing market
for servers in Asia-Pacific in the second quarter of 2005,
clocking 30 per cent growth year-on-year, according to analyst
firm Gartner. In overall market share of the server market in
the region, India stood at eight per cent. It is the only
market along with China in the region where the server revenues
grew, according to the analyst firm. "India's healthy economic conditions were reflected in the increasing business confidence and foreign
investment during the quarter," Gartner said, adding the
demand was strongest in banking, finance, manufacturing and
services with Public sector also being active.
India: The second largest cement producing
country
الهند :
البلد
الأكبر
الثاني
لإنتاج
الأسمنت.
India is the second largest cement producing
country in the world. Cement demand in the country grows at
roughly 1.5 times the GDP growth rate. The industry had a
turnover of around US$ 7.8 billion in 2003-04. The Indian
cement industry with a total capacity of 151.2 million tonnes
(including mini plants) in March 2003 has emerged as the second
largest market after China, surpassing developed nations like
the USA and Japan.
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Foreign investments double in 4
years
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تُضاعف
الاستثمـارات
الأجنبيـة
خلال 4 سَنَواتِ.
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With the pace at which India
Inc is expanding its footprint abroad, the country’s outward foreign direct
investment (FDI) may very well catch up with inward FDI. In ‘2004-05,
Indian direct investment abroad aggregated $1.54 billion on the back of a
drive by manufacturing companies to expand abroad. On the other hand, total
FDI into the country totalled $2.32 billion. According to the RBI annual
report, the phase of acquiring foreign companies, which kicked off in the
information technology and related services sector, has now spread to other
areas. Apart from manufacturing, the non-financial services segment
accounted for outward FDI of $230.1 million, followed by trading at $175.5
million and financial services with $6.9 million. In ‘2000-01, India’s outward FDI was just $708.3 million. Maximum outward direct investments by Indian
companies have been in the US during the period between April 1995 and
March ‘05. Indian firms invested over $2 billion in the form of equity and
loans in companies (IT and pharma) set up there. Russia, Mauritius, Sudan (oilfields)and the UK were other major investment destinations during the last
decade. On the inward FDI front, Mauritius still tops the list, followed by
the US and the Netherlands. During the last fiscal, the FDI flows from Germany and Japan rose sharply. FDI flows were directed mainly at the manufacturing sector, which
received $924 million, followed by computer services at $372 million and
business services ($363 million). Foreign portfolio flows at $8.8 billion were
also buoyant during ‘2004-05.
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India shines as global firms plan more investment
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تتفوق
الهند بينما
تَنوى
شركاتَ
عالمية المزيد
من
الاستثمار.
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India's booming technology and telecoms industries will
see more investment coming their way from Asian companies such as
Flextronics and Kyocera as they tap Asia's third-largest economy for its
lower cost structure and growing demand. Scores of global firms such as
General Electric Co. and American Express Co. already employ thousands of
English-speaking Indian staff to do high-end financial analytics and
back-office work at costs that are 25 to 60 percent cheaper than in
Western countries. Many companies are either increasing their India presence or have plans to do so within a year as the $700 billion economy, forecast
to grow about 7 percent this year, offers similar potential for growth.
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India's clinical trial sector can surpass IT
revenues by 2010
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القطاع
التجريبي من
الطب في
الهند يمكن
أن يَتجاوز
إيرادات قطاع
تقانة
المعلومات
بحلول عام2010م.
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India is emerging as a major hub for global clinical
trials and this new sector is poised to generate more revenue than the
information technology industry by 2010, an industry leader has
forecast. "India is going to be one of the major hubs for clinical
trials in the next five to seven years," Dr Krishna M Ella,
Chairman and Managing Director of Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech
International, one of India's largest biotech firms, said.
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'India could emerge as iron ore powerhouse'
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الهند قد
تظهر كمركز
نفوذ حديد
خامِ في
العالم '.
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Global mining heavyweight
BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. said India holds the potential to emerge as
the world's third top supplier of iron ore to steel mills. India
already mines more ore than it consumes, meaning it is a net exporter
of ore, which has turned golden for mining companies as steel makers
scoop up hundreds of millions of tonnes of the raw material, mostly
from Brazil and Australia.
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Dubai plans US$ 3.6 billion Indian alumina
plant
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تنوي
دبي إقامة
مصنع
الأوكسيد
الأمنيوم
في الهند
قدره 3.6
بليون
دولار
أمريكي.
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Dubai Aluminium Co.,
operator of the largest aluminum smelter in the Middle East, signed
a contract to jointly develop in India a US$ 3.6 billion an alumina
ore plant, a bauxite mine and a smelter as it seeks to meet rising
Asian demand. Dubal, as the Dubai government-owned company is also
known, and its partner India's Larsen and Toubro Ltd. agreed to
develop bauxite mineral mine and refinery in two phases in India's
eastern state of Orissa, the companies said at the contract signing
in Dubai.
Pilkington sets sights on Indian market
ترتكز
شركة
بيلكينغطون
حضورها في
السوق
الهندية.
The world's leading
finished-glass manufacturing companies are increasing their
presence in Indian market. Pilkington Plc, a leading global glass
maker, is planning to set up a fully owned subsidiary in India. The other two leading global glass manufacturers, St Gobain and Asahi, are already
present in India.
India rated
third in energy potential
تعتبر
الهند ثالث
اكبر الدول
في العالم
لإمكانية
الطاقة.
India’s energy potential is rated the third largest
in the world, with annual installations of 875 mega watts (MW),
only after Europe and US, exceeding forecasts of 500 MW, according
to analysis by Danish consultants BTM Consult. This accounts for
10.7 per cent of the total MW of capacity added globally. India’s cumulative wind energy capacity is currently 3,000 MW, only behind Denmark, which has a installed capacity of 3,083 MW. Europe and US have an installed capacity of
34,725 MW and 6,750 MW respectively in 2004. It is expected that India’s installed capacity would touch 8,300 MW by 2009.
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