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From the Editor's Desk - Issue # 17 – March - I

The recent issues of maladministration, malfeance, downright corruption & loot of public money from municipal to national levels need to be taken up seriously, without fear or favour. The bottom line is the need for Good Governance. Power corrupts even the most ethical & moral persons as we have seen recently – the only safeguards are vigilant citizenry, well-designed iron-clad systems, standard operating procedures & layers of controls & regulations without letting them degenerate into red-tape.

NO-EST or HON-EST?

India anti-corruption chief PJ Thomas forced to resign

The head of India's anti-corruption watchdog has been forced to resign by the Supreme Court on the grounds that he himself faces corruption charges. PJ Thomas was appointed by the government last year. But the court overturned the appointment because of charges against him dating from 1992, when he was a civil servant. Mr Thomas denies them. His resignation is the latest in a series of corruption scandals to hit India's ruling Congress party.

What’s your number?

Greed is an unbearable limitlessness of being

Prashant Agrawal

‘What’s your number?’ is a common question at business schools. Before anyone has any illicit thoughts, the number refers to how much money you need to retire. The question, rephrased, being: how long does one have to slog at a consultancy, hedge fund, private equity or investment bank before retiring.

Under Fire, Rajat Gupta Shoots Mails

Ex-McKinsey head says he’ll defend himself against US regulator’s ‘baseless’ allegations

OUR BUREAU HYDERABAD 

Remapping Computer Circuitry to Avert Impending Bottlenecks

By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: February 28, 2011,The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01compute.html?_r=1

Indian solves 400-year-old sunspot mystery

Charu Sudan Kasturi charu.kasturi@hindustantimes.com

NEW DELHI

SUNSPOTS ARE DARK SPOTS SEEN ON THE SUN'S SURFACE, WHICH ARE FOCAL POINTS OF MAGNETIC ENERGY 

New Delhi: A Calcutta physicist and two US scientists have solved a 400-year old mystery on the working of the sun, offering a solution that could help predict space weather and plan space missions and polar flights.

India Inc backs Rajat Gupta

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 

Mumbai/New Delhi: India Inc has come out in full support of Rajat Gupta, the former managing director of McKinsey, who has been indicted for insider trading by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 

Have mobile, will travel

Ashok Jhunjhunwala , Feb 22, 2011, 12.00am IST

Breaking the Gender Barrier: Vinita Gupta on Creating More Women Technology Entrepreneurs

Published: February 24, 2011 in India Knowledge@Wharton

OBITUARY

Arun Mehta, BT, Electrical 66

Arun Mehta graduated with flying colours in electrical Engineering in 1966.  He used his brilliant mind to be one of the pioneers in IT and worked with various industry leaders at that time, before taking up his own consulting business.  Unfortunately, his health did not stand by him and he underwent almost every kind of intervention imaginable.  For the past several years he was first housebound and later almost room bound.

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