Kerala urged to exploit waterway transport
Gulf Times: Thursday, 26 January, 2012, 12:29 AM, Doha Time
Speaking on “Leadership and Innovation: Ideas for India” organised by Aspen Institute India and Group of Technology Companies at Technopark here earlier, Pitroda urged young leaders, entrepreneurs and students to work towards building innovation as the ...
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Promote culture of innovation: Pitroda
IBNLive.com: India | Jan 25, 2012 at 07:06pm IST
The country had got the right ingredients ready and all that was needed was to use them in the right measure to turn into a reckoning power and make India a leader globally, he added. The talk on "Leadership and Innovation: Ideas for India" was organised by Aspen Institute India and Group of Technology Companies at Technopark. Promote culture of innovation : Pitroda.
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Grow innovation as culture: Pitroda
Hindu Business Line: Thiruvananthapuram-Wednesday: 25 January 2012
The lecture was organised jointly by the Aspen Institute India and Group of Technology Companies in Kerala (GTECH). “We are living in very exciting times when evolution of Internet has changed the world like it has never been,” Dr Pitroda said.
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Sam Pitroda Urges Young Leaders, Entrepreneurs And Students To Build A New Innovation Culture In The Country
Thiruvananthapuram-Wednesday: 25 January 2012
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Can’t make Pak hand over terrorists to India: Blackwill, Express news service
Indian Express : Dec 09, 2011 at 0417 hrs IST
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No Leverage to Make Pak Handover Dawood, Omar: US:
OutLook India : PTI | Kolkata | Dec 08, 2011
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ET Awards' Agenda for Renewal 2011: Energy, the new poverty, says Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman & MD, Godrej & Boyce
The Economic Times : Thursday Nov 24, 2011, 06.13am IST
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Charlie Rose in conversation with Amb. K Shankar Bajpai about the Aspen CFR report in this video
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Partnership in progress
The Business Standard: Monday, 19 September 2011, New Delhi
India’s relationship with the US, and the shadow of China and Pakistan on that relationship, is the subject of the first- ever joint India-US report on the bilateral relationship published this week and released simultaneously in Washington, DC and New Delhi.
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Aspen Institute Wants to Play Catalyst in Indo-US Ties
The Economic Times: Monday,19 September 2011, New Delhi
With India-US relations appearing to be adrift on account of respective domestic distractions, a group of experts under the aegis of the Aspen India Institute and the Council for Foreign Relations have stepped with suggestions for greater co-operation for mutual benefit.
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India should have ‘quiet’ talks with Pak on Afghanistan: Report
Posted: Sun Sep 18 2011, 03:07 hrs New Delhi
Titled as “the United States and India: A Shared Strategic Future” and co-produced by the Aspen Institute India and Council on Foreign Relations, the report underlines that the US and India should endorse a “residual military presence” over the long-term in Afghanistan beyond 2014 if such a presence is acceptable to Kabul.
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Democracies in tandem
The Hindustan Times: 14 September, 2011
India’s common democratic values, growing economy, geographic location and strategic assets make it an indispensible partner for the United States. On a number of issues of global governance, India remains the most important ‘swing State’ in the international system. The US remains the preeminent global power and matters greatly to India’s rise with respect to the balance of power in Asia and beyond.
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India today needs legacy of Bose and Mahatma : Sugata Bose
The Hindu : Chennai, July 26, 2011
Mr. Bose was speaking at a function organised by Penguin Books India and Madras Book Club in association with The Aspen Institute, where his book His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose, India's Struggle Against Empire was launched.
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CFR and Aspen Institute India Collaborate on U.S.-India “Vital National Interests” Dialogue
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"Aspen Institute India and Aspen Institute USA signed an MoU recently in Washington DC, to renew our commitment with Aspen Institute USA to promote value-based leadership in all aspects of civil society. "
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Aspen Institute India, taking forward the US India Strategic Dialog under the Indian Strategy Group, organized an Interactive Session with Nicholas Burns, Professor, Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Former Under Secretary of Political Affairs, US Department of State on 21 August 2009 in New Delhi.
Nick Burns made insightful observations about the future of India-US relations, demonstrating that India is one of the top 2 or 3 important relationships for the USA. The visit of Prime Minister Singh in November 2009 at the invitation of President Obama will be the first official State visit and is a symbolic gesture in all its might….
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Proceedings of Ideas India 2009
Ideas India 2008 - The only conclave to discuss Ideas about India's Development.
December 17-20, 2008 New Delhi
Aspen Institute India organized IDEAS INDIA 2008 from 17-20 December 2008, in New Delhi - an effort to bring together diverse sections of society to ideate on issues of crucial importance to India's development.
About 95 speakers addressed a varied audience composed of participants from educational institutions, research organizations, think tanks and NGOs, as well as many students. The range of subjects and issues included India's geo-political relevance, internal and external security, rural development and poverty, security and terrorism, healthcare, education, demographic challenges, clean drinking water, new media and technology, lifestyle diseases, the reach of mobile technology, media ethics and so forth.
The uniqueness of IDEAS INDIA lay in the fact that most of the sessions were designed as panel discussions, which provided more space for deeper engagement with the issues.
Some of the key speakers during the conclave included Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam (Former President of India), Prof.Amartya Sen (Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, USA), Viswanathan Anand (World Chess Champion) Nandan Nilekani (Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies) Sam Pitroda (Chairman, National Knowledge Commission), Prof.C.K.Prahalad (Professor of Corporate Strategy, University of Michigan Ross School of Business), Sunita Narain (Director, Center for Science and Environment) and Shashi Tharoor (Chairman, Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations).
The speakers also included 13 Fellows from the India Leadership Initiative (ILI), part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). As young practitioners, they brought in a fresh and innovative approach to the myriad issues being discussed.
Given the atmosphere in India today, where there are urgent calls for better governance and responsible political activism, there is the danger that the space for debate and frank discussions may shrink. IDEAS INDIA thus provided a platform for people to share their views and opinions with speakers who are leaders and experts in their particular fields.
The programme was very well received in terms of audience, quality of discussions as well as engagement with the issues.
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“A Conversation with Jairam Ramesh” Minister of for Environment and Forests, Government of India on July 31 2009, New Delhi
In a unique interactive session, Mr.Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests elaborated on the government’s position and action on three areas: climate change, forestry management and institutional reform in the environmental sector.
On climate change, Mr.Ramesh said that the Indian government recognizes the incontrovertible evidence of global warming and its effects, especially on a local level. A national action plan on climate change has been drawn up and the government has taken a series of steps to mitigate emissions. He pointed out that looking at India’s growth trajectory, in the next two decades India will not be a major emitter of greenhouse gases—as against the developed countries. He thus stated that while India is taking such a series of steps on its own, it cannot accept legally binding emission targets. During the Q&A session that followed, Mr.Ramesh suggested that the developed western countries had no business telling India to cut emissions when they themselves have done little to cut back, while also changing the rules of the negotiations (such as changing base year targets)…
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Launch of India Leadership Initiative Class II
September 03, 2008, New Delhi
The Aspen Institute India, together with The Aspen Institute (USA) and the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs, today announced the launch of the second class of the India Leadership Initiative (ILI) Fellows to develop a new generation of values-based action-oriented leaders. A part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network comprised of nearly 850 Fellows in 37 countries, ILI is one of 11 leadership initiatives of its kind in the U.S., Africa, Central America, and soon to include the Middle East and China.
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Class I of the India Leadership Initiative Graduates
Final Class of the India Leadership Initiative: Kovalam, 20 February 2008-09-23
The very first class of the 'India Leadership Initiative' graduated on February 20, 2008 on the completion of the fourth and final seminar titled "The Promise of Leadership" in Kovalam, Kerala. Earlier the group had met for the third seminar from 09-14 September in Aspen, Colorado. The ILI fellows joined the Africa Leadership Initiative's South Africa Fellows in Aspen for a seminar titled "Leadership in the Era of Globalization".
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