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When Will Diamonds Sparkle Again? Do consumers fear that these sparkling gems are worth the precious money? Diamond’s plight is especially striking, in contrast with how gold performed during the recession. A fascinating story that takes you from Surat in Gujarat, to Antwerp, to New York City, to Jwaneng in Botswana, and back to India’s diamond & Jewellery showrooms.
PICKING A HOME in 2009
AN INVESTMENT FOR LIFE? OR A HEADACHE FOR LIFE?
Can India Handle Bullishness? From their IIT backgrounds, to their rapidrise ambition, and to their aggressive business stances, the three Indiabulls have built up an empire that often sports the shadows of controversy. Their first completed project is yet to be, but they are India’s 3rd largest listed realty firm, and is now playing promoter to the Indiabulls Power IPO.
From one of India’s most valuable companies, Unitech plunged to be the most worthless, and is now climbing back. The question before Unitech home-buyers and stock-buyers are the same. Will they, or won’t they? For Unitech, it has to. There is no other go.
Sameer Gehlaut, Indiabulls
Sanjay Chandra , managing director of Unitech
Will They, Won’t They?
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Can Carry This Burden? When creating arguably the country’s largest realty brand through the largest realty IPO, had the Singhs unwittingly created something that won’t fit into their mouth? DLF continues to be Indian realty’s flagship, attracting brickbats and scrutiny. Can the group handle this burden?
Too Much to Sort Out for Emmar MGF The overseas clout of Emaar and the domestic influence of MGF were not enough to save Emaar MGF’s 2008 IPO. The 2009 IPO proposal is more realistic at just over half of last time’s figure, but is Rs 3850 crores realistic enough? Whether they can pull off the Commonwealth Games Village will be the real test. Diversions like the recent ED investigation can however play spoilsport.
PNC Menon Sobha Developers
Strategies to be Back in Shape It didn’t take long for Sobha Developers to plunge from one of India’s most successful listed realtors to well, just another troubled developer. But the Menons are fighting back elegantly, by breathtakers like the Infosys Global Education Centre, Sobha Saphire at Business Bay, Dubai, and of course the unavoidable sale of land parcels across the country to better their balance sheet.
Rajeev Singh, DLF
Mohamed-Ali-Alabbar EMMAR MGF
NITESH ESTATES
Mr. Shravan Gupta EMMAR MGF
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Too Young for an IPO
Nitesh Shetty Founder & Managing Director Nitesh Estates
Young entrepreneur Nitesh Shetty does everything in style, but the company’s IPO runs the risk of being premature. Barely 7 years into operation, Nitesh Estate’s geographical spread is mostly in a few South Indian cities alone, and their IPO might remind people about the IPO of Puravankara Group. Despite having several completed projects, Puravankara had struggled to complete its IPO. And it seems an unfortunate coincidence that the Nitesh IPO would have company in another realty IPO, that of Emaar MGF, for whom it is a second chance after abandoning their IPO bid last time. At the same time, the primary market would have strong alternates like the IPOs of Godrej Properties and Lodha Developers. Like many real estate companies, Nitesh too faces a slew of customer complaints, which may again hog limelight during the IPO season. Nitesh Estates had recently inducted two directors, one formerly with Citibank, and one from a Middle East PE Fund, indicating how poorly the promoters understand the Indian investors, among whom there is no love lost for such MNC financial houses.
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Niranjan Hiranandani
At their home-turf of Powai, Hiranandani enjoys good things like wonderful margins. But with many in the trade catching up at Powai, also in margins, can Niranjan Hiranandani recreate the magic at Thane, Panvel, and elsewhere like Chennai? Or will Hiranandani / Hirco consider affordable options for the first time?
Ravi Purvankara
Can Hiranandani Repeat Powai Elsewhere?
For Puravankara, Cricket, Lanka, and Beyond Nahar Too Becomes Inaccessible?
Manju Yagnik, Nahar Group
Sukhraj Nahar, Nahar Group
Once only the contender, Nahar Group is now almost the incumbent in Powai, with that rare precious resource to dispense – ready to occupy homes. But the decision by Sukhraj Nahar and Manju Yagnik to jack up prices to 7800 levels may prove risky soon.
Puravankara Projects was one of the most battered realty stocks as well as brands during the downturn. But it seems Ravi Puravankara’s strategy to go dead slow on new launches, and instead continuing unabated on ongoing projects, has placed the firm in a good shape now, with many almost ready homes to sell. The group is also entering IPL and betting big on postwar Lanka with residential projects.
Studying for Amitabh, Appearing for Rekha Susmita Dasgupta took her PhD on Amitabh Bachchan. Her subjects include how much of an ego trip was Rekha for Amitabh.
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Go Goa Come Charged SUN SAND AND FUN
SEASONAL MAGAZINE November /December Upcoming Issues HALF YEARLY REVIEW ON BANKS
Banks to Dream Big With With the government all set to kick-start the largest state borrowing ever to cut budget deficits and resume double-digit growth again, the focus has again shifted to the country’s banks. Can they deliver? Balance growth and priority lending? Or will the private sector end up the ultimate loser with a credit crunch? With many banks still not out of RBI ICU, it is a tall call. Half yearly results reveal the bankable of the lot.
Why We Are Who We Are INSIDE HUMAN BRAINS Grief, pain, horror, speed, intelligence, forgetfulness, cravings, mind tricks, déjà vu, and even ghost sightings are nothing but a brain function. You can control your brain – that is, yourself – with this knowledge by tweaking on your food and other stuff.
Heartbreaking is So True The sad connection between depression and heart disease.
Choosing the Best Gaming Console for 2009 Is it Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, or Playstation 3?
Rupert Murdoch has had enough. His dinosaur newspaper empire – the largest in this globe – is threatened to extinction by the likes of Google and the free news aggregators. Nobody believes he can stop the slide. But Murdoch is not known to lose battles either. The old man is embracing some of the hottest new technology like Amazon Kindle and other personal digital readers to push a paid online subscription model for his newspapers. Undoubtedly, if he wins, this planet’s newspapers also win a critical war against the everything-for-free Net.
Rupert Murdoch
An Old Man Fights the Times
India’s Pace Slow Chat with Pataudi
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STATE BANK OF INDIA
Insecure Until in Top-10 There is only one Indian bank in the world’s top 100 banks. SBI could either rest on this laurel or develop an insecurity. OP Bhatt decided for the latter. He worried about why SBI was not in the top 50. Because at almost 15,000 branches and over 10,000 ATMs, SBI is the secondlargest bank in the world by branches. Not to speak of the world’s largest centralized core banking system that processes 75 million accounts and 19 million transactions every day. That is why Bhatt boasts that he wants SBI to be in the Top 10.
Grow Like California, Wither Like California? The gold rush created San Francisco. The movie madness created Hollywood & Los Angeles. And digital fortunes created Silicon Valley. But despite all these nextto-impossible economic miracles, the US State of California is on the verge of a social and economic collapse. California’s lessons would send shivers down the spines of all super-affluence aspirants including our own Delhi, Mumbai, & Bangalore.
10 Rules for Innovation Forget Exercise, it is Food, Says Sonam How Bollywood diva Sonam Kapoor shed 35 kgs on food and no exercise!
Surgery, not Medicines, for IFCI As a developmental financial institution, IFCI helped build some of India’s critical projects. But is today’s IFCI groping in darkness, unable to find a sustainable business model?
BANKING FOR ALL IN THE FAMILY Karnataka Bank is almost a model private bank – publicly held, professionally managed, and technologically updated. Positioning themselves as of service to all in the family, this South based bank is also furiously shrugging off its hitherto regional image to a more appealing pan India image. With a Director Board packed with banking veterans
Brain Broadband Athulkumar Rai (IFCI)
Researchers prove browsing is what brains need.
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THE MAKING OF SPIRITS Everyone knows alcohol is injurious to health in moderate to high quantities. But the jury is still out on the issue of minimal drinking - Drinking one or two pegs,...
Biodynamic & Organic FOODS & FARMING Hair Dyes, Nothing to Die For The verdict is out. Hair dyes can cause cancer. Not only cancer, but other diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, bronchial asthma, & severe skin reactions that can leave you looking like an alien.
Limit TV to Grow up Smart! Parents sense that there is something wrong with their kid’s craving for Cartoon Network. Still, they would be the first ones to turn on Pogo or Pokemon, when their child becomes unmanageable.
Exposing the Cholestrol Lies More and more researches now feel that cholestrol is not the main villain causing heart disease. In fact, the low-cholestrol diet we ....
Eat More of Super Foods SEXERCISES
How Exercise Fights 10 Diseases Diabetes & Obesity Heart Disease& Stroke Cancer & Erectile Dysfunction Arthritis &Osteoporosis Depression, Anxiety, Stress
For Male & Female Problems Sexual Problems are on a Rise, Both in men and women. if premature ejaculation and...
For health and vitality, around 50 nutrients are needed in adequate quantities. Welcome to superfoods.
Natural Family Planing Drugs and surgery are not the only tools available today. All about the practical, reliable &100% natural...
Any Car can be a 35 Km Per Litre Car
Practically any modern car can turn into a mileage champion with these guys at Ford and Nascar. Here are eight hot tips from this world record setting team in mileage. And wonder of wonders, they set their records in city driving!
10 Diseases 1 Prescription: Sleep! Getting only less than adequate sleep daily can contribute to these diseases. So, will ensuring that you will nevercheat on your 8-hours do the reverse-cure them?..
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Sachin’s Achilles Heel: A Lofted Drive?
ORIENTAL BANK OF COMMERCE
Oriental Values, Western Efficiencies
Shane Warne missed it. But has a Kiwi boy finally detected it?
The 2008-09 global financial distress proved that when it came to stable banking, it was oriental or Indian type values that mattered. Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), founded at Lahore, shifted to Amritsar, and headquartered in New Delhi for long, is one of India’s premier public sector banks.
12 Lakhs for 1 Day Training With Sachin Sachin created history on eBay when mom-in-law’s charity raised 6 lakh each from two anonymous bidders for a one day training with the maestro. The upside? They can bring a 14-member team along.
Swines and Swine Flu are Two Was it the Muslim world’s disdain for pigs that drove Egypt to massacre all their pigs? Anyway, now they know better with the once Cairo’s cleaners totally out of action.
IndusInd Bank
Defining New Gen, Defining New Safety Levels
90 Years of Tandoori Chick, Butter Chick From its origins in Peshawar in present day Pakistan, these dishes have captured the sub-continent’s imagination like no other.
Auspiciously inaugurated in 1994 by India’s liberalization architect - Dr. Manmohan Singh – the then finance minister, the Hindujas promoted IndusInd Bank has come to define new generation
How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a PC
KARUR VYSYA BANK
Private Sector Outperformer
5 applications that will blur the difference between these devices.
Chevrolet Cruze
When India’s private sector banking giants like ICICI Bank and Axis Bank were swayed by the global economic crisis, and the country’s public sector giants like SBI & PNB took shelter under RBI wings, a comparably small private bank based out of Karur in Tamilnadu
BMW Z4 roadster
HDFC BANK Home Loan Fortress Cracking?
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Aditya Puri
Deepak Parekh
With SBI catching up, ICICI fighting back, and its highly pressured workforce faltering, is the once impregnable bastion of HDFC Bank – its home loan business – finally faltering? The too selective, too restrictive home loan policies that preempt a significant percentage of homebuyers from a lifecritical home loan seems to play strongly against HDFC Bank.
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Apartment Buying? Meet India’s Real Estate Ironies After nearly a year of lull, Indian real estate is fighting back to its lost glory, driven by steadily increasing consumer demand for houses. But many things can still spoil the party, including a tendency to hike prices, and the still-topick-up demand for office spaces.
Niranjan Hiranandani
Rajeev Singh
Gautam Singhania
Sukhraj Nahar
Ravi Kiran Agarwall
sameer gehlaut
Vinod Goenka
Nusli Wadia
Hafeez Contractor
Adi Godrej
ING Vysya Gets Ready for the Bigger Game A fruitful quarter registering 42% growth in net profits, and a successful round of fundraising behind it, ING Vysya Bank is readying itself to take on a bigger role in India’s private sector banking
Kumar Gera
Irfan Razak
Andhra Bank Facing Unique Problems? PNC Menon
Chhotalal S Ajmera Boman Irani
Beneath Andhra Bank’s healthy numbers lie some challenges that are unique to this Hyderabad headquartered public sector bank led by veteran banker RS Reddy.
The Doctor Inside! The doctor is in. But there are no doors to knock. All you have to do is tap on your heart. ‘Coz she is in there. Dr. Yoga. She has been around for more than 5000 years. But charging nothing. Prescribing no medicines. Her only repertoire is a bunch of easy ways to sit ‘n stand ‘n kneel ‘n lie down. Her only prerequisite – you should look inside. Her only side-effect – she may cure more than your physical ailment…
Sugarasana, Pressurasana, Sexasana, Glamourasana, Asthmasana, Dateasana, Coolasana, Slimasana, Vigourasana, Backasana
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Schools Sticking to Sibal Suggestions. Already.
How Yes Bank Fares Among India’s Private Sector Banks
Even while HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is working hard to bring in sweeping changes to the country’s CBSE schools, here are a bunch of international schools already following these next gen recommendations voluntarily.
At just 123 branches, 2000 odd employees, and sub-100 crore quarterly profit levels, Yes Bank is one of India’s smallest banks in all categories taken together – traditional private banks, new generation private banks, and public sector banks (PSBs).
INDUS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
TISB Hit by Recession?
CHOITHRAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, Bangalore’s flagship international school, TISB, seems to be struggling as NRI and expatriate parents facing pay cuts can’t afford the kind of tuition and boarding fees charged by schools like TISB in the city.
Kerala Tourism
Pray to God, But Practice Safety Too At Thekkady, affirmations like God’s Own Country were not enough. Now Kerala Tourism faces a unique opportunity to learn from the tragic incident, and re-launch its virgin, secluded destinations sans the dangers.
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Problems Persist at Parsvnath
With Fitch downgrading it for its restructuring, its QIP only partially successful, and its debt showing no signs of easing, Pradeep Jain seems to have hit the panic button with stake sales in multiple projects and possible group stake sale to PE funds. Stock market seesawing and even the latest numbers may not be enough to take Parsvnath to safe shores.