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Do the entrance tests for private primary schools need to be so demanding? Dominique Vulliamy reports.

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The Next Four Years

With the primary market expecting initial public offerings worth over Rs 40,000 crore (Rs 400 billion) this year, the Securities and Exchange Board of India is considering steps to ensure that retail investors find it easier to invest in IPOs.

Moving beyond their relationship with educational institutions only for campus recruitments, companies are now entering into long-term pacts with premier institutions for joint research on new products.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will address the opening session of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos on January 26.

NIIT Technologies on Friday reported a 133 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit at Rs 13.3 crore (Rs 133 million) in the third quarter of this fiscal.

The knowledge economy demands that companies must put premium on their soft assets such as workers, brand value and goodwill, B Ramalinga Raju, chairman, Satyam Computer Services, said on Friday.

The London Stock Exchange plans to conduct road shows in India from July for attracting technology and other high growth companies to list on its Alternate Investment Market segment.

iGate Global Solutions, the integrated technology and operations company with a global services delivery model, would make its Chennai operation a 'centre of excellence,' chief executive officer Phaneesh Murthy said.

Investments should be governed by investors' risk-appetite and not how attractive the returns are.

Investments in Reliance Infocomm are in line with corporate governance norms and eminent retired judges have endorsed that the CG practices are legally sound, Y P Trivedi, an independent director of Reliance Industries Ltd, said in Mumbai on Friday.

Visage Media's chief operating officer Srini Kilambi says, "The partnership is an initiative on the part of Getty Images to serve its Indian clients better. Indian agencies had to source the pictures from Singapore earlier."

By 2035, India is likely to be a larger growth driver than the six largest countries in the European Union.

IT major Wipro is in talks with software industry body Nasscom and the government to allow the use of BPO infrastructure, created for export-oriented units, to serve customers in the domestic market.

You can now fly from Singapore to the Thai resort of Phuket for just US$6! Tiger Airways has offered 20,000 such one-way tickets.