Boost for intra-African, BRICS trade

South African companies, including foreign companies based in South Africa, stand to benefit from relaxed cross-border financial regulations and tax requirements, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced in Cape Town on Wednesday. Delivering his 2013 National Budget speech in Parliament, Gordhan said that outward investment reforms that applied as part of a new set of “gateway …

Mr. Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President – India Subcontinent, Citrix: on Budget 2013-14

“The Union Budget 2013-2014 has been an affirmative, balanced and realistic one that will boost our economic growth, even though it hasn’t been particularly relevant from an IT hardware and software perspective. On a positive note, provisions for post offices deploying core banking tech and schemes for modernization and technology upgradation in the textile sector; …

Platinum is classic, timeless and lasts forever

Everlasting Platinum Jewellery, the choice of today’s women Mumbai, February 2013: Salute the special woman in your life who has supported you, cheered you, advised you and loved you this International Woman’s Day with an ideal gift, eternal white platinum jewellery. It is the choice of today’s modern woman. Platinum is eternal. Naturally white, this …

India’s New Budget Plans Won’t Bring The Economic Growth The Country Desperately Needs – Umesh Shanmugam

In its efforts to stimulate growth, the government has been trying to attract foreign investors and strengthen its capital markets.However, the measures included in the plan were widely regarded as falling far short of accomplishing these goals, according to Reuters. Here are some of the measures rolled out in the FY13-14 budget. “Uniform registration and …

Tenova Core Installs Consteel® System at Andec

Pittsburgh, PA, February 27, 2013— Tenova Core has recently completed the installation and commissioning of a Consteel® system for the Ecuadorian steelmaker Andec, at the company’s Guayaquil works. It is the first Consteel® installation in the region and the world’s most compact Consteel system. The Consteel® technology is an important part of a plant “micro-mill” …

ThyssenKrupp AG to actively support authorities with investigation

Today business premises of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg were searched by the Federal Cartel Office. According to the search warrant the matter involves alleged anticompetitive agreements between market participants relating to specific steel supplies to the automotive industry in Germany. Antitrust violations are not tolerated in the Group. Dr. Heinrich Hiesinger, Chairman of the …

Italy Is Not Spain – It’s Worse: Umesh Shanmugam

With Rajoy quietly gloating at his political fraud being off the front-pages thanks to Italian elections, it seems the more we dig into Italian reality, the weaker the story becomes. The meme of the last few years has been that “at least we’re not as bad as Greece” and rightly so, for as Bloomberg’s Niraj …

Mineral diversity clue to early Earth chemistry

Washington, D.C.— Mineral evolution is a new way to look at our planet’s history. It’s the study of the increasing diversity and characteristics of Earth’s near-surface minerals, from the dozen that arrived on interstellar dust particles when the Solar System was formed to the more than 4,700 types existing today. New research on a mineral …