Billion Dollar Indian Companies

Finally we have a good bunch of Indian companies in the Billion Dollar club. The top is still dominated by public monopolies. I expect it to change in the next few years with the IT companies hogging the limelight.

	Company Name	Net Sales (2007) in $ billion (conversion rate Rs.40.90 per dollar)
	Indian Oil Corporation Ltd	52.53
	Reliance Industries Ltd	25.76
	Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd	23.85
	Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd	21.95
	ONGC	9.75
	State Bank of India	9.73
	Steel Authority of India Ltd	8.63
	NTPC Ltd	8.04
	Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd	7.04
	Tata Motors Ltd	6.79
	Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd	6.07
	MMTC Ltd	5.72
	ICICI Bank Ltd	5.67
	Hindalco Industries Ltd	4.51
	Bharti Airtel Ltd	4.39
	Larsen & Toubro Ltd	4.33
	Tata Steel Ltd	4.33
	Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd	4.25
	GAIL (India) Ltd	3.96
	Tata Consultancy Services Ltd	3.68
	Maruti Udyog Ltd	3.61
	State Trading Corp of India Ltd	3.53
	Wipro Ltd	3.37
	Infosys Technologies Ltd	3.24
	ITC Ltd	3.05
	Hindustan Lever Ltd**	2.98
	Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd	2.91
	Reliance Communication Ltd	2.89
	Punjab National Bank	2.84
	Canara Bank	2.80
	Adani Enterprises Ltd	2.50
	Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd	2.48
	Hero Honda Motors Ltd	2.44
	Bajaj Auto Ltd	2.35
	Bank of Baroda	2.27
	Bank of India	2.26
	Grasim Industries Ltd	2.14
	JSW Steel Ltd	2.12
	Hindustan Zinc Ltd	2.11
	Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd	2.11
	Videocon Industries Ltd***	1.87
	Ispat Industries Ltd	1.85
	Union Bank of India	1.82
	Ashok Leyland Ltd	1.77
	HDFC Bank Ltd	1.70
	Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd	1.56
	Ambuja Cements Ltd**	1.55
	Central Bank of India	1.54
	Satyam Computer Services Ltd	1.54
	Syndicate Bank	1.49
	National Aluminium Co Ltd	1.46
	Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd	1.45
	Indian Overseas Bank	1.44
	Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd	1.43
	ACC Ltd**	1.41
	Reliance Energy Ltd	1.40
	Petronet LNG Ltd	1.36
	Suzlon Energy Ltd	1.33
	UCO Bank	1.31
	Oriental Bank of Commerce	1.27
	Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd	1.21
	UltraTech Cement Ltd	1.21
	Allahabad Bank	1.20
	Jindal Stainless Ltd	1.20
	Tata Power Company Ltd	1.16
	Redington India Ltd	1.16
	National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development	1.15
	UTI Bank Ltd	1.12
	Siemens Ltd***	1.11
	Indian Bank	1.06
	ABB Ltd**	1.05
	National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd	1.03

* For manufacturing & service companies, net sales considered as revenue.For commercial banks, net interest income is considered as revenue.

** Firms’ financial year ending December 2006

*** Firms’ financial year ending September 2006

# For the nine months ended December 2006, ONGC’s sales were $9.75 billion. It has not yet announced its financial results for the full year. In 2005-06, the firm had recorded sales of $10.74 billion.

Microsoft Photosynth

Some nice peek into new technologies that are coming in:

The technology is available at http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html

It makes me remember about the words in God's debris that internet is going to be the collective consciousness of the whole humankind

GAME THEORY

Read a article which gives a good idea of what Game Theory is all about and somethings about human psychology:
Have a look at:
The Traveler's Dilemma -- [ GAME THEORY ]: Scientific American

Promoting your video

Yesterday I got a mail from my friend about some IIT Alumni meet where some IIT girl sang an (unexpectedly) good song.

Here is the song which was forwarded to me : http://nostaljigs.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86.

The song seemed good to me and it is good (keeping a typical IIT prototype in mind).

I went to youtube to look for the same song so that I can download the same song and 'what the hell is it?'. She a well known pakistani singer. Went back to the original site and started reading the comments. The 1st page was all innocence and then from 2nd page onwards truth was out and people were baying for the blood of the poster.

Still its a good song worth listening quite a number of times.

And yes the video got promoted well, got a lot of hits to the site as well as youtube.

Mid Size car analysis

Vineet bhaiya bought a new Verna and a lot of analysis went into it.
Would like to share some of it with all..

	LOGAN	SX4 - Zxi
	GLS 1.6 Petrol
Boot Space	510 (ltrs)
Overall Length	4247 (mm)	4490
Overall Width	1740 (mm)	1735
Height	1534 (mm)	1570
Wheel Base	2630 (mm)	2500
Ground clearance(unladen)	172 (mm)	190
Fuel tank capacity	50 (Ltr)	50
Turning Radius	5.25 (meter)	5.3
Kerb Weight		1200
Type	4 cylinder ,8 valve	16v DOHC
		4 cylinder, 16 Valve
Displacement	1598	1586
Max. Power (hp/rpm)	84.5 / 5500	102 / 5500
Max. Torque (nm/rpm)	128/3000	145 / 4200
Price	568789	700000
		735000
	Verna XXi (Petrol)	City EXi / GXi
Boot Space		500
Overall Length	4310	4390
Overall Width	1695	1695
Height	1490	1495
Wheel Base	2500	2450
Ground clearance(unladen)	170	160
Fuel tank capacity	45	42
Turning Radius	4.92	4.9
Kerb Weight		1060
Type	16V - DOHC	4-Cylinder, In-line
		8- V Petrol
Displacement	1599	1497
Max. Power (hp/rpm)	103.2 / 5500	77 / 5000
Max. Torque (nm/rpm)	14.9 / 3000	12.8 / 2700
Price	7,02,854	City ZX EXi : Rs.688000
		City ZX GXi : Rs.738000

Alternative Rock

Dashboard Confessional - Stolen

After a long time heard some music so close to the genre of U2. May be after some more years, they come close to U2 themselves.

Here goes the 2 compositions of U2 which I believe brings the best out of them:

U2 - With Or Without You

U2 - Beautiful day

Cool Iris

Just got a new plugin recommended by Vinay and its really cool. It basically opens a new div when you hover over a hyperlink and shows the preview of the target (href) of the hyperlink in it thereby saving you a lot of time and hassle to check out the link in a new tab/window

Try your self with this new addon to Firefox (can be installed from mozilla addons).