The year 2011 was an eventful year of enormous proportions. The volatility during the year continued unabated due to several factors including natural disasters, political upheaval and financial turmoil. For the first time in history, we saw a credit downgrade for the US as well as the deficit ceiling fiasco, which brought the US to almost a financial standstill.
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan, took a devastating
human and economic toll. The debt crisis in Europe created
fears of sovereign defaults, resulting in major financing
strains on banks with fears of a breakup of the euro zone.
The Centennial is a loaded top-end luxury sedan offering value for money, writes Visvas Paul D Karra after an extensive test-drive.
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Within a short span of 18
years, Al Jassar Group has
established itself as a fast
growing multi divisional
firm with strong presence in
trading, manufacturing, real
estate, contracting, health
etc. VT Saileswaran,
Managing Director, who has
been in the vanguard of this
journey, talks about the
success, values and vision
of his business. Muhammed
Nafie reports
It all started with one man
who stepped out of the
comfort zone of a senior
management position with a
leading Kuwait-based company
to venture into an own
enterprise in the Sultanate
in 1994. Over the last 18
years, it has grown to a
group of diversified
companies establishing
itself as a pioneer in
providing multiple services
to a wide range of
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The book under review is a
well researched account of
one of the greatest
visionaries to have ever
walked this earth and it
does adequate justice to its
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Karen Blumenthal is a
critically acclaimed
children’s non-fiction
writer and a long-time
journalist for the Wall
Street Journal. She is the
author of Bootleg: Murder,
Moonshine, and the Lawless
Years of Prohibition, which
received four starred
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October: The Stock Market
Crash of 1929, which was a
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IX, which won a Jane Addams
Children’s Book Award.
Though Issac Walterson’s
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Steve Jobs has been getting
most of the attention,
Blumenthal’s Steve Jobs: The
Man Who Thought Different is
an equally incisive and
perceptible account of this
legendary figure....
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has transformed
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Oman - A Nation
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