It was in the year 1947 that both India and Pakistan were granted independence on the midnight of August 14-15 but Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 and India on August 15. Ironic but interestingly‚ Pakistan first independence day was celebrated as August 15 and later on it became August 14. Another reason was that British Viceroy Mountbatten‚ who chose August 15 symbolizing the surrender of Japan to Allies two years ago as the date‚ preferred to transfer power to Pakistan on August
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Global Marketing - Louis Vuitton in India With a GDP growth rate of more than nine percent‚ India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The population size exceeds one billion‚ including around 83‚000 dollar millionaires (2005)‚ recording the world’s second fastest growth in the number of high-net-worth consumers. Luxury brands like Louis Vuitton can take advantage of a steadily increasing upper class and a more and more affluent middle class. Moreover‚ 51 percent of the population
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Avert the Tragedy of the Commons -Case Study: Coca-Cola India Aneel Karnani Stephen M. Ross School of Business The University of Michigan E-mail: akarnani@umich.edu Ross School of Business Working Paper Series February 2014 This paper will be published in Economics‚ Management‚ and Financial Markets‚ forthcoming. Keywords: corporate social responsibility; tragedy of the commons; common-pool resource; environmental sustainability. I would like to thank Coca-Cola India‚ and especially Praveen Agarwal
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Legislation provision for health and safety in India: In the Constitution of India it is mentioned about the health and safety management of the workers‚ which directs the Government to form policies but there is least follow up of the Government policies. These policies are formed so as to give strengthen the workers at the working site‚ so that they are not abused and exploited. Some sections enforce for the humane working conditions as well as maternal relief. But many of the workers and people
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A CASE STUDY OF SHRIMP EXPORTS FROM INDIA ABSTRACT This case traces the growth and stagnation of the Indian shrimp exports. This case also talks about the various internal and external problems faced by the Indian shrimp industry in the last five years. The case throws light on the competitive scenario of the Asian shrimp exporting countries. The key focus of the case is on International Trade Environment and how a country can face a competition as well as other hurdles on other fronts.
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growth-oriented industry globally. On the Indian scene too‚ the assurance industry has always recorded noticeable growth vis-à-vis other Indian industries. The new India assurance Co. Ltd. was the first general assurance company to be established in India in 1850‚ which was a wholly British-owned company. The new India assurance company to be set up by an Indian was Indian Mercantile assurance Co. Ltd.‚ which was established in1907. There emerged many a assurance player on the Indian scene
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to aggregate female employment in the Indian manufacturing sector over the 1990s. It is argued that much of the use of female labour in export production in India has been in informal and unorganised workplaces‚ including home-based work‚ with associated implications for pay‚ working conditions and consequently also for social policy. The cases of Export Oriented Units (EOUs) and Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are then taken up in the third section‚ with specific attention to what such employment has
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architecture‚ food and customs differ from place to place within the country‚ but nevertheless possess a commonality. India is the only country in the world to have so many religions and beliefs. The culture of India is an amalgamation of these diverse sub-cultures spread all over the Indian subcontinent and traditions that are several millennia old Religions and spirituality India is the birth place of Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Jainism and Sikhism‚ collectively known as Indian religions.[5] Indian religions
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REPUBLIC OF INDIA INTRODUCTION India‚ officially the Republic of India‚ is a country in South Asia‚ and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations‚ the World Trade Organization‚ the South Asian Regional Co-operation Organization and the United Nations. The name India is derived from the River Indus‚ the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on Earth does humanity
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When India attained independence‚ she was no nation‚ she was divided into princely states and provinces; she was backward economically‚ educationally‚ scientifically and even culturally. It needed men of genius and destiny like Gandhi‚ Nehru and Patel to knit her into a nation. Since the dawn of independence‚ we have been striving to solve various problems facing the motherland to make her a united democratic and solvent nation. What we have achieved is praiseworthy‚ what we have failed to achieve
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