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DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, and Blue Dart, part of the DHL Group, are piloting Smart Truck technology in Bengaluru, India, the first deployment of this successful logistics innovation outside Germany. Created by DHL Solutions & Innovations (DSI), the DHL Smart Truck is an “intelligent” pick-up and delivery vehicle that combines a number of ...
- Preckwinkle criticizes Dart on payroll (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Emanuel and Dart walk into a bar... well, a nightclub (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Dart: Teen's killing 'as cold as you want to hear' (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Feds, retailer recall deadly dart sets (Category: USA, Illinois)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the global economy sputtering and financial markets on the rocks, the world needs reassurance the U.S. central bank stands ready to save the day. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will make a speech on Friday at a lodge in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole, where policymakers and academics meet once a year to ...
- Bernanke defends low rate policy for weak economy (Category: Business)
- US growth easing after strong 4th quarter: Fed Chief Bernanke (Category: Business)
- Dollar Gambit (Category: Business)
- Print Boss (Category: Business)
Rational men are scarce and fear-driven, emotional men are plentyKautilya’s advice: If people are gullible, exploit them Kautilya, the fourth century BCE Indian economist, strategist and statesman of ‘The Arthashastra’ fame, had a fine piece of advice to his king. When the king’s treasury runs low, he should use extraordinary measures to build the treasury. ...
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
- Controversy over efficiency of share markets (Category: Business)
- The rise of State capitalism: new masters of the universe or an ominous portent? (Category: Business)
- Economic policy governance: Listen to sane voices before it heads for disaster (Category: Business)
The Business and Information Management department of SLIIT recently hosted a conference titled ‘Kaleidoscope; Reflecting Tomorrow,’ an apt theme which is timely in raising and addressing some of the contemporary issues related to the field of business management, together with its numerous interfaces within an ever-changing business environment. The Business and Information Management...
- SLIIT enrols students from Asia and Africa for new intake (Category: Business)
- SLIIT Partner University Day on 21 September (Category: Business)
- ‘How come govt. goes ahead with deal regardless of damning reports on SLIIT’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Unilever beats local blue chips in preferred employers’ survey (Category: Business)
Reuters: Emerging markets will not save the world if the West slides back into recession. In an interconnected global economy, decoupling is a beguiling myth. As fears mount that the developed world is shifting from slow growth to no growth, emerging markets seem to many economists better placed to weather the storm than they were ...
- Islamic markets seen leading global trade volumes (Category: Business)
- WB cuts China growth forecast to 8.2% (Category: Business)
- Asia, not North America, now has most millionaires (Category: Business)
- Divergent trends as Sept. passenger traffic rises freight declines — IATA (Category: Business)
European debt crisis signals collapse of social welfare stateBy James Roberts and J.D. Foster, Ph.D. Europe’s socialist (or “social democratic”) welfare state is collapsing under the load of unsustainable debt. There is no chance European politicians will ever make good on the many costly and unfunded entitlements they have promised their citizens. The fundamental problem ...
- Collapse of the EU: Debt and more debt (Category: Business)
- China urges EU to reach debt deal without delay (Category: Business)
- W. Bank’s Zoellick says double-dip recession unlikely (Category: Business)
- G20 backs Europe’s plans for overhaul to fight crisis (Category: Business)
Our ‘poli-socionomic’ dialogue You will recall that like Capt. Kirk in his Star Ship-Enterprise,’ we also ventured into new territory with our first discussions under this theme ‘poli-socionomics,’ which appears to have caught on somewhat; thus, on behalf of those of us who still dare to think, I must thank those editors who carried it. ...
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
By an Independent Analyst The State Assembly of Tamil Nadu (TN) passed a resolution on 8 June 2011, requesting the Indian Central Government to push the international community against Sri Lanka towards imposition of ‘economic sanctions’. The resolution at the TN assembly moved by Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister passed unanimously with the ruling party ...
- TN moves resolution to implead itself in Katchatheevu case (Category: Breaking News)
- TN seeks economic sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- TN group violently opposes Lions Flag (Category: Breaking News)
(Reuters) – Fitch Ratings said on Tuesday it affirmed the United States’ top-notch credit rating at AAA, giving the world’s largest economy a reprieve after it was downgraded by Standard & Poor’s little more than a week ago. Fitch said the outlook for the rating was stable. However, it warned that the United States was ...
- Fitch affirms US AAA credit rating, outlook still negative (Category: Business)
- Hayleys, Fitch part ways (Category: Business)
- Fitch Ratings has withdrawn Hayleys PLC’s ‘A+(lka)’ National Long-Term rating (Category: Breaking News)
- Lifted Higher (Category: Business)
A veteran Banker W.A.Nalani assumes duties today as the new General Manager of Bank of Ceylon. Having joined in April 1975, Nalani takes over as the 17th General Manager of the Bank of Ceylon and the 3rd lady General Manager of the Bank. W.A.Nalani Nalani having a distinguished career in banking and in the Bank ...
- BOC lends $ 10 m to Maldives Government (Category: Business)
- New BOC GM assumes duties (Category: Breaking News)
- BoC illuminates Seruwila Maha Seya (Category: Business)
- ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Banking Industry’ award from APB (Category: Business)
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