Evening Edition

For your reading pleasure:

• International Relations: The India-Africa summit kicked off with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promising to ease access from the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Said Singh, “under this scheme, India shall unilaterally provide preferential market access for exports from all the 50 least developed countries.”
• Green Energy: As we have been covering in this space, green energy is becoming hotter and hotter in India. Kenersys, a newly formed wind-energy company (owned by Pune based Kalyani Group), has received an investment from First Reserve Corporation, a leading energy-focused private equity firm [via VC Circle]
• Business Education: XLRI becomes the first Indian business school to become a “part of a UN global initiative promoting corporate social responsibility, values and ethics”. The school is now a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), a global framework for incorporating CSR into curricula and research [via Calcutta Telegraph]