With fame and power comes a certain level of brashness. In India, that brash nature is backed by complete impunity with which law is played with by the wealthy and powerful. We have seen that with the business (Jessica Lall case) and in Salman Khan’s case. Another recent case underscores the same issue. At an upscale restaurant in Mumbai, a South African businessman Iqbal Sharma was having his food, while people on the adjacent table were making a lot of... Read more
Things are heating up between India and China. The latest incident – after many from China like actions regarding bureaucrats from Arunachal – is the Indian Advisory to Indian traders against doing business in Yiwu – near Shanghai. Efforts were on to quietly shift them to Shanghai. But the controversy, which left an Indian diplomat in hospital first in Yiwu and then in Shanghai over the weekend and made the Indian government summon a senior Chinese diplomat in New Delhi on... Read more
This year all the employees in India need to remember something that will help them save money and time. If you earn Rs 5 lac or less, then you are not required to file income tax this year. Salaried employees earning up to 5 lakh a year will not be required to file income tax returns from this year,says a Finance Ministry notification. There are about 85 lakh salaried persons in the country whose yearly income,including earnings from other sources... Read more
Are men more prone to violence? The fact is that men commit 90% of the world’s homicides and have started all the wars. In an interesting article in the latest issue of “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society”, three authors – Melissa McDonald, Carlos Navarrete and Mark Van Vugt have discussed the interesting concept of male warrior. Here is abstract from their paper: The social science literature contains numerous examples of human tribalism and parochialism—the tendency to categorize individuals on... Read more
Telenor is one of the companies whose licenses got cancelled by the Supreme Court, after the Government dragged its feet on the 2G scam. Well, Telenor – the Norwegian company that was impacted isn’t happy and is ready to play tough ball with the Indian system. The company will take all its assets to a new company and apply for new licenses. Huh!!? So, just a change in the name would do a “Dip in the Ganges” for her? The... Read more
Impact of a bad economy and job market is seen everywhere. Americans are keeping their vehicles longer and postponing their buying. Which means that new car sales will be impacted in the coming months. Americans are holding onto their new vehicles for about six years — 27 percent longer than before the recession — due to the weak economy and better durability of cars and trucks, a study by market analyst Polk found.The findings show the longest average ownership of... Read more
In a world full of Attention Deficits from all of us, it is not surprising that platforms like Facebook and Twitter, where the updates remain in the view for just so long as they aren’t pushed by new ones into relative oblivion – are the most powerful world-wide. Not so long ago, there was a time when stamp collections or scrap books, or photo albums which adorned our shelves were our greatest possession. They were passed from one generation to another. And... Read more
One knows Mayawati is corrupt and of the extreme kinds, but this news article gives a good overview of the way the corruption is organized. Look at how Indiana Air Pvt Ltd had gotten such open ended licenses and is using a web of companies to launder monies. Opposition party BJP has stated that Anand Kumar, the brother of UP Chief Minister Mayawati happens to be the owner of Indiana Air Pvt Ltd, a private airline company. The matter was... Read more
I recently came across a blog site, which is fairly interesting. It had an article, where the author was trying to denigrate Vedas and Hinduism in contrast to Sikhism. He tried to suggest that Guru Nanak Dev came up with a new group as a “better” alternative to Hinduism. So, the author starts the article thus: Here’s a reminder of why our Gurus asked us as Sikhs to steer away as far as possible from Hinduism and the Vedas – and... Read more
Yuvraj Singh, who has a tumor between his lungs and is battling with cancer, got inspiration from Lance Armstrong himself! Armstrong wished him a speedy recovery and gave him hope as he stood behind the Indian All arounder. Indeed, a great gesture from a great man. “Message from @lancearmstrong makes me feel better! Thank you lance means a lot hope we can meet,” tweeted Yuvraj, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States for a malignant tumour located between his... Read more
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