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Trading Persian Tea for Seattle Coffee

Edit The Atlantic 05 May 2016
Samiran Sarkar / Shutterstock / Kara Gordon / The Atlantic. SEATTLE—Along downtown’s First Avenue, Starbucks, this city’s native son, is outnumbered. Instead, the street’s caffeine monopoly belongs to Cherry Street Coffee House, a local chain. Each of its five First Avenue locations has a different design, but the northernmost shop has a particularly distinctive character ... technology, aviation, and yes, coffee ... “It’s sexy Persian ... ....

Doctors hail govt's initiative to overhaul MCI

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
NEW DELHI ... "The formation of the alliance is unprededented ... Dr Samiran Nundy, a senior surgeon at New Delhi's Ganga Ram Hospital, suggested that Britain's General Medical Council could be a good model to follow in restructuring MCI and that the body should have nominated members from the civil society. ....

Doctors' alliance alleges massive graft in MCI, seeks action

Edit Deccan Herald 04 May 2016
The book was also launched on the occasion ... They alleged "massive corruption" in MCI. The doctors termed as "worrying" the "silence" of the Health Ministry on the findings of the House panel ... Dr Samiran Nundy, a senior surgeon, suggested that Britain's General Medical Council could be a good model to follow in restructuring MCI and that the body should have nominated members from the civil society ... ....

City hospitals have poor research output, says study

Edit The Times of India 28 Apr 2016
In fact, the contrast becomes clear when one looks at the medical research output of Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, USA) -46,311 and 37,633 respectively! The research paper -titled `The research output from Indian medical institutions between 2005 and 2014' and carried by Samrat Ray , Ishan Shah and Samiran Nundy ......

Flap over 80-yr-old in 'pigeon prison'

Edit The Times of India 26 Apr 2016
Kolkata. Talk of stirring up a pigeon's nest ... The team found 80-year-old Sulata Ghosh seriously ill and living in "highly unhygienic conditions" with hundreds of pigeons ... "It is terrible, completely uninhabitable ... The chairman of Samiran Co-operative Housing Society, the Megha Mallar residents' cooperative, D K Roy, said, "All 600 of us residents, mostly senior citizens, are victims of Lopamudra Ghosh's whims ... But she paid no heed ... ....

Study reveals poor state of medical research

Edit The Times of India 21 Apr 2016
The evaluation done by Dr Samiran Nundy, gastrointestinal surgeon and dean of Ganga Ram Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, along with two colleagues, looked at 579 institutes recognised by the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducts the largest portfolio of examinations in medicine in India ... The top 25 institutes under NBE, all private, contributed just 5.6% ... ....

No research papers from 332 medical colleges in 10 years

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
Their total research output during the period 2005-2014 was 101,034 papers, with the average number of publications per institution being 14.5 papers per year," said the journal authored by Samiran Nundy, dean of the Ganga Ram Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (GRIPMER) ... --IANS. rup/pm/dg ....

'60% medical colleges didn't publish papers in 10 yrs'

Edit Deccan Herald 20 Apr 2016
Private colleges from south are worst performers ... We also found most of the southern states that have the largest number of private medical colleges produce very little in the way of research publication,” says Samiran Nundy, a former professor of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, who led the team. The study was published on Tuesday in the journal Current Medicine Research and Practice ... Research matters ... ....

Room for another 25bps easing by Sept: Citigroup

Edit The Times of India 07 Apr 2016
CHENNAI ... The brokerage says it expects CPI inflation to undershoot RBI's 5% projection in January-March 2017 quarter. "The moderate hike in minimum support price (MSP) - as imputed from food subsidy for FY17 - and normal monsoon conditions reinforce our view of another year of benign food inflation," said Citigroup analyst Samiran Chakraborty in a research note ... ....

RBI sticks to script with 25 bps cut

Edit Yahoo Daily News 05 Apr 2016
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan indicated that it could take around eight months or thereabouts to bring down the liquidity deficit to 0% of the net demand and time liabilities; currently, the deficit is targeted at 1% or Rs 80,000 crore ... “The highlighting of upside risks to inflation outcomes in the RBI's statements probably partly offsets the impact of a dovish guidance,” Samiran Chakraborty, economist at Citigroup, wrote in a note....

India Rate Decision Day Guide: Eyeing a 25 or 50 Basis-Point Cut

Edit Bloomberg 04 Apr 2016
All indications are that central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan will cut India’s interest rates on Tuesday for the first time since September, and then take a long break ... Four see a reduction to 6.25 percent and two see no change ... in Mumbai ... While Citi’s Samiran Chakraborty expects Rajan to reiterate his "accommodative stance," he also predicts "certain pre-conditions for further easing” such as monsoon trends and guaranteed crop prices ... ....

Dalal Street expects a rate cut of at least 25 bps: ET Poll

Edit The Times of India 03 Apr 2016
MUMBAI. The Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut interest rates by at least 25 basis points tomorrow, according to an ET poll ... A reduction will extend the bank's accommodative policy stance, ending a six-month pause ... "In this policy, markets will try to assess the scope of future rate cuts from the RBI's forward guidance," said Samiran Chakraborty, chief economist for India at Citibank ... Anything more would be welcomed by the market....

Top docs back House panel proposal to overhaul MCI

Edit The Times of India 01 Apr 2016
In an editorial in the British Medical Journal titled "A radical prescription for the Medical Council of India - Hope for a cure", the authors, Dr Sanjay Nagral, consultant surgeon at Mumbai's Jaslok Hospital, Dr Samiran Nundy, dean, Ganga Ram Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi and Anita Jain, research editor, BMJ ......
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