What is the Best Capital City of South Asia?

[santhoshreddy]

i agree islambad is good. but compare to delhi. it is less in education.

 

[santhoshreddy]

Mukesh Ambani to be richest man in world in 2014: Forbes
Boston, Sep 12, (PTI):

With a net worth of USD 62 billion, Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani would be the richest man on earth in 2014, according to a forecast issued by the prestigious Forbes magazine.

"One of the predictions is that Reliance Industries' chief Ambani, who currently has a net worth of 29 billion dollars, pips the world's richest man Mexican businessman Carlos Slim to top Forbes' rich list in 2014," it said.

Ambani's net worth swells to USD 62 billion while Slim is "hit hard by Mexican political, financial chaos," according to the prediction by Forbes. 53-year-old Ambani currently ranks fourth on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires.

Forbes has listed a number of events that could happen over the next 10 years in the field of politics, energy, medicine, finance, society and technology. The publication asked its staff and contributors to forecast some of the "noteworthy events" till 2020.

"A vision of the coming decade sketched from real data, projections and facts whenever possible -- though we've injected a dose of rigorous science fiction to fill the gaps," Forbes said about its special 2020 report called 'What Happens Next -- Our Look Ahead'.

Another forecast in the field of finance and economics is of fraudster Bernard Madoff's death in his prison cell in 2011. The convicted Ponzi-scheme perpetrator is found hanging in his cell and "prison officials will not rule out foul play," according to the Forbes forecast.

"Futurism favours the bold. Look more than 30 years ahead... and critics will forgive your inaccuracies. We've attempted a thought experiment with far tougher standards: predicting the future that's just around the corner," Forbes said.

In 2012, social networking site Facebook debuts on NASDAQ. Its IPOs value USD 40 billion and founder Mark Zuckerberg becomes the first 20-something who is worth USD 10 billion-plus.

Then by 2020, Wal-mart employs five million people worldwide and its sales pass the one trillion dollar mark. The company "cites successful India and Brazil expansions" for the landmark.

In 2017, Harvard endowment doubles in seven years to USD 50 billion. It offers free tuition to lure top students from China. The US job scene finally improves in 2018 as unemployment drops below seven per cent and worst of quadruple-dip recession is likely over, Forbes predicts.

In the area of politics, New York elects Chelsea Clinton to Senate in 2016, according to the Forbes forecast. The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the "first to hold office while pregnant".

In 2018, the last combat troops leave Afghanistan, bringing an end to the "longest-ever US land war" in which "Taliban and US claim victory." The year 2020 is the year for Tibet's Water War, Forbes prediction says. "China opens a giant hydroelectric dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, sparking military threats from India and Pakistan coalition."

Another political forecast is that North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il dies at the age of 70 in 2011. His son Kim Jong Un, 29, succeeds him and "seeks trade with US". The next political prediction is that the first climate war will be fought in 2020.

"Muslims flee shrinking Maldive Islands for Sri Lanka, sparking religious fighting. UN troops deployed." The year 2016 will see the first Internet balloting for US President, with seven per cent of votes cast online amid widespread accusations of fraud.

In the technological world, technology company Apple will be without its co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs, who will retire in 2019, pledge 50 billion dollars upon his death to the charitable Gates Foundation. Senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple Jonathan Ive will be named company CEO.

In 2011, the 'Terrafugia Transition' flying car goes on sale for USD 200,000, while in 2020 the first privately-owned spacecraft lands six men and two women on moon.
"Virgin Galactic charges 200 million dollars per ticket," the publication predicts.

The year 2018 will be the time when Trans-Eurasia Express, the world's fastest train, arrives in Paris from Beijing, breaking the 300mph record. Forbes' predictions for the world of medicine include the world's largest drugmaker Pfizer breaking up into five smaller firms in 2014.

Men become obsolete in 2016 when "two Australian women conceive first fatherless child using synthetic sperm derived from one mother's stem cell". US life expectancy declines for first time in a century in 2018.

In the field of society and environment, the world's 7 billionth child is born in 2011, Forbes says. "UN chief Ban Ki Moon arrives at a Cairo hospital to welcome the child, Malika Hussein and declares start to Gender Justice Decade."

In 2015, Bangladesh requests USD 8 billion World Bank loan for desalination plants as rising seas contaminate freshwater and by 2020, China faces "dire lack of women" and legalises same-sex marriage, creates pro-homosexual propaganda and financial incentives.

For the world of energy, Forbes predicts that price of switchgrass-based ethanol is cheaper than gasoline in 2017, while in 2019 the first large-scale nuclear fusion experiments commence in France, "prompting new promises of limitless clean power."


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Mukesh Ambani to be richest man in world in 2014: Forbes

 

[santhoshreddy]

islambad in clean and green. but in infrastrutcure it is newdelhi

 

[santhoshreddy]

it is tuth. if u dont believe leave it.

 

[santhoshreddy]

if u dony believe plz leave it. it is the trutth. india is emerging with knowledge. come to banglore and saw how the tecgnology is growing. now the banglore is called the silicon city of india

 

[santhoshreddy]

Bangalore's Indian Rupee ₹52,346 crore (US$11.36 billion) economy (2006–07 Net District Income) makes it one of the major economic centres in India,[53] with the value of city's exports totalling Indian Rupee ₹43,221 crore (US$9.38 billion) in 2004–05.[54] With an economic growth of 10.3%, Bangalore is the fastest growing major metropolis in India,[55] and is also the country's fourth largest fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) market.[56] With a per capita income of Indian Rupee ₹74,709 (US$1,621.19) in 2006–07,[53] the city is the third largest hub for high net worth individuals and is home to over 10,000 dollar millionaires and about 60,000 super-rich people who have an investable surplus of Indian Rupee ₹4.5 crore (US$1 million) and Rs. 50 lakh (US$ 108,500) respectively.[57]
The headquarters of Infosys, India's second largest IT company, is located in Bangalore

The headquarters of several public sector undertakings such as Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) and Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) are located in Bangalore. In June 1972 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was established under the Department of Space and headquartered in the city.

Bangalore is called the Silicon Valley of India because of the large number of information technology companies located in the city which contributed 33% of India's Rs. 144,214 crore (US$ 31 billion) IT exports in 2006–07.[58] Bangalore's IT industry is divided into three main clusters — Software Technology Parks of India (STPI); International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB); and Electronics City. UB City, the headquarters of the United Breweries Group, is a high-end commercial zone.[59] Infosys and Wipro, India's second and third largest software companies are headquartered in Bangalore, as are many of the global SEI-CMM Level 5 Companies.

The growth of IT has presented the city with unique challenges. Ideological clashes sometimes occur between the city's IT moguls, who demand an improvement in the city's infrastructure, and the state government, whose electoral base is primarily the people in rural Karnataka.[60] The encouragement of high-tech industry in Bangalore, for example, has not favoured local employment development, but has, instead, increased land values and forced out small enterprise.[61] Bangalore is a hub for biotechnology related industry in India and in the year 2005, around 47% of the 265 biotechnology companies in India were located here; including Biocon, India's largest biotechnology company.[62][63]

Infosys, Wipro, iGate, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and US based companies like Google, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft and Intel have their offices in Bangalore.








Bangalore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[LaBong]

Maybe you haven't taken a look at the hunger index. Pakistan's poverty rate is 17% and declining, Pakistan is also the most urbanized nation in South Asia. In india the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That's why you have people living in slums and tents right beside a luxurious building and malls in India. Even the whole airport is surrounded by slums in Mumbai.

Hunger and Poverty Decline in Pakistan, Rise in India - Chowk: India Pakistan Ideas Identities

Pakistan's poverty has never been declining, that's what Google public data says, not me.

 

[santhoshreddy]

1st islambad in clean and green. but in my opinion is delhi in infrastructure and transport

 

[santhoshreddy]

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[santhoshreddy]

Foreign Direct Investment
Last Updated: December 2010

India has been ranked at the second place in global foreign direct investments in 2010 and will continue to remain among the top five attractive destinations for international investors during 2010-12 period, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in a report on world investment prospects titled, 'World Investment Prospects Survey 2009-2012'.

The 2010 survey of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation released in December 2010, conducted among Japanese investors continues to rank India as the second most promising country for overseas business operations, after China.

A report released in February 2010 by Leeds University Business School, commissioned by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), ranks India among the top three countries where British companies can do better business during 2012-14.

According to Ernst and Young's 2010 European Attractiveness Survey, India is ranked as the 4th most attractive foreign direct investment (FDI) destination in 2010. However, it is ranked the 2nd most attractive destination following China in the next three years.

Moreover, according to the Asian Investment Intentions survey released by the Asia Pacific Foundation in Canada, more and more Canadian firms are now focusing on India as an investment destination. From 8 per cent in 2005, the percentage of Canadian companies showing interest in India has gone up to 13.4 per cent in 2010.

India attracted FDI equity inflows of US$ 1,392 million in October 2010. The cumulative amount of FDI equity inflows from April 2000 to October 2010 stood at US$ 122.68 billion, according to the data released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).

The services sector comprising financial and non-financial services attracted 21 per cent of the total FDI equity inflow into India, with FDI worth US$ 2,163 million during April-October 2010, while telecommunications including radio paging, cellular mobile and basic telephone services attracted second largest amount of FDI worth US$ 1,062 million during the same period. Metallurgical industries were the third highest sector attracting FDI worth US$ 920 million followed by power sector which garnered US$ 729 million during the financial year April-October 2010. The automobile industry received FDI worth US$ 436 million.

During April-October 2010, Mauritius has led investors into India with US$ 4,480 million worth of FDI comprising 42 per cent of the total FDI equity inflows into the country. The FDI equity inflows in Mauritius is followed by Singapore at US$ 1,282 million and the US with US$ 908 million, according to data released by DIPP.

Investment Scenario

In the year 2010, India has assumed a notable position on the world canvas as a key international trading partner, majorly because of the implementation of its consolidated FDI policy. The consolidation, first undertaken in March 2010, pulls together in one document all previous acts, regulations, press notes, press releases and clarifications issued either by the DIPP or the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) where they relate to FDI into India.

According to the modified policy, foreign investors can inject their funds though the automatic route in the Indian economy. Such investments do not mandate any prior government permission. However, the Indian company receiving such investment would be required to intimate the RBI of any such investment.

The FDI rules applicable to such sectors are, therefore, fairly clear and unambiguous.





saw this site to believe Foreign Direct Investment

 

[santhoshreddy]

Pakistani foreign direct investment declines by 44%

By M. Arslan
For CentralAsiaOnline.com
2010-06-21

Pakistani police take positions outside one of the two Ahmadi worship places in Lahore stormed by gunmen May 28, killing dozens. Pakistan’s security situation has discouraged foreign direct investment. [Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images]

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s domestic challenges are turning investors off, analysts say – and it may be a while before things improve.

“No one comes to invest in a country like Pakistan confronted with a debt trap and a growing fiscal deficit”, prime minister economic advisory committee (EAC) and former advisor to the Finance Ministry Dr Ashfaq Hasan Khan said. “If you look at developments of the past two years, in Pakistan’s case its debt has gone up to 60% of GDP and (it has a) growing fiscal deficit”.

Pakistan’s foreign direct investment (FDI) dropped by 44.7% in the first ten months of fiscal year 2009-2010, compared with a year earlier, according to an official document of the Board of Investment (BOI), a division responsible for promoting investment in Pakistan.

“The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has released FDI for July-April (2009-2010) indicating $1.772 billion against $3.20 billion for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year”, the document says.

The document indicates that Pakistan secured $3.52 billion in FDI in 2005-2006. FDI grew to $5.14 billion in 2006-2007, then $5.41 billion in 2007-2008. However, with the decline in economic growth and the prevalence of terrorism, its FDI level dropped to $3.72 billion in 2008-2009. As terror attacks intensified, investment continued to shrink, dropping to $1.72 billion in 2009-2010.

The United States was the top investor with $490m. It was followed by The Netherlands, $269.2m; Britain, $214m; UAE, $182m; Switzerland, $126m; Singapore, $93.5m; Cayman Islands, $69.2m; and others, $328m.

The oil and gas sector attracted the most investment, $604.7m. Other industries receiving significant foreign support include telecommunications, $309.8m; finance, $133m; transportation, $104.2m; paper and pulp, $80.5m; construction, $86.3m; chemicals, $79.1m; and others, $375m.

Khan blamed the FDI drop on bad planning and government policies. He also said the worsening security problem has scared away investors. “FDI cannot be encouraged in a worsening law-and-order situation”, Ashfaq said.

The rise in suicide attacks and a counter-terror operations in Pakistan led to a flight of capital that peaked in 2009. At international forums seeking FDI, Pakistani officials had no answer to investors who asked why they should invest in Pakistan when Pakistanis were investing abroad.

Salim Mandiwala, head of BOI, blames the global economic crisis, terrorism and the energy crisis in Pakistan for the drop in FDI. “But at the same time, when other countries also witnessed negative FDI in 2009-2010, Pakistan’s total of around $2 billion was not a bad performance”, Mandiwala said.

The situation won't improve until the government remedies the security and energy crises, said Dr Abid Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute.

“It’s hard to lure investment unless and until investors are given lucrative incentives for preferring Pakistan over other countries”, Suleri said.

Suleri does not agree with government officials that law and order will improve drastically in coming years, helping Pakistan to secure FDI.

“I don't see any major development in coming years as far as FDI in Pakistan is concerned, as there is no considerable change in law and order andthe energy sector expected in the near future”, he said.



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Pakistani foreign direct investment declines by 44%

 

[Jango]

The infrastructure is really not the issue, we are looking at the capital which can please its residents aesthetically and in their everyday lives. And isloo is far ahead in this respect. You dont have slums everywhere u look and also u dont get stuck in hours of rushhour traffic. Islamabad gives a person peace.if india has 2300billion $ stock exchange,it has to feed the worlds 2 or 3rd largest population, islamabad has 65billion $ but i dont have a problem with that because everyone is islmabad is being fed well and and is living well.

 

[Zeeshan360]

The infrastructure is really not the issue, we are looking at the capital which can please its residents aesthetically and in their everyday lives. And isloo is far ahead in this respect. You dont have slums everywhere u look and also u dont get stuck in hours of rushhour traffic. Islamabad gives a person peace.if india has 2300billion $ stock exchange,it has to feed the worlds 2 or 3rd largest population, islamabad has 65billion $ but i dont have a problem with that because everyone is islmabad is being fed well and and is living well.

WHat a Joke

 

[ajay]

Pakistan does not even have a metro system or world class infrastructure like Delhi

 

[IND151]

i support Delhi. it has many projects underway and some completed projects have made it beautiful.