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This is an interesting "letter to editor" of Dawn - a leading Paki daily - regarding the reason behind India's Siachen occupation. You state that India “surreptitiously took over the strategic terrain widely seen as belonging to Pakistan Read more
This is an interesting "letter to editor" of Dawn - a leading Paki daily - regarding the reason behind India's Siachen occupation. You state that India “surreptitiously took over the strategic terrain widely seen as belonging to Pakistan Read more
This is supposed to be the biggest scandal to hit Washington DC in a long time... .. and it seems this guy Abramoff was also friends with Bush.... but just $6k? Hmm.. is Bush that cheap? President Bush's re-election campaign is giving up $6,000 in campaign contributions connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who faced more guilty pleas as part of a broad-ranging political corruption investigation. Read more
Another useful speech from Murthy as always! I guess three things are important.. ONE, the infrastructure (like a subway system, roads, and better basic sanitation system), two: Improvement in pollution levels (dust is a major culprit where smoke is not that much like in Delhi), three: free up the real estate through changes in Rent Control act to make ownership is foregone conclusion of whose name the property is in.. and NOT a matter of squatting! Until then this "Indian IT dream" will be in danger. "Today, the world has recognised Bangalore as a place that offers high quality talent at an affordable price." Read more
This is most amazing! Suppose.... just for argument.. that the terrorists send one middle eastern lady from - say Lebanon - to seduce these guys??!! In fact I am surprised that given the "motivation" that these terrorists have - they have not been able to use this simple door left ajar in UK.. A probe has been launched following a newspaper report that staff at Britain's biggest immigration centre was giving UK visas to attractive foreigners in return for sex. A former employee told the Sun tabloid that workers at the centre in Croydon, south London, used their influence to seduce pretty asylum seekers whereas "ugly" migrants would see their applications rejected. Read more
Had discussed the Oil scenario and the rivalry of India and China! It seems this is a win for India.. remember sometime back China's oil company CNOOC had won a big on PetroKazakh? Well.. Lakshmi Mittal and ONGC had joined hands.. and LN Mittal has substantial interests in Kazakhakstan.. even the Indian Govt. has good relations there.. this seems to have been a joint effort if its what it promises to be! India is all set to tap Central Asia’s rich energy sector with Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev willing to reconsider equity for New Delhi in the billion tonne Kurmangazy oilfield in the Caspian Sea area. Read more
This is the scariest aspect of terrorism! With little money.. a crazy sense of salvation .... and explosives.. these guys can wreck havoc everywhere! The suicide bombings that killed 52 people on London's transit system in July were a relatively low-cost operation, security experts said Tuesday. I think the London bombings, including buying the train tickets and conducting reconnaissance, were done for no more than 1,200" pounds, or about $2,000, independent defense and security expert Paul Beaver told The Associated Press. Terrorism financing expert Loretta Napoleoni said the bombings were relatively inexpensive largely because the four bombers were homegrown, living with their families in towns north of London and traveling to their targets using a rental car and a train. Read more
Its snowing heavily in Boston since last night.. I am in a suburb of Boston actually.. the scene is all white outside.. tough to live in such a gloomy weather with NO sun at all! Its at these times that you remember your loved ones.. I have these two pics of my kids on my cell that I like a lot - my daughter with her doll and my son crawling his way around... hazy ones.. but still bring the cheer! Read more
1. The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read "Are you lactating?" 2. Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer from diarrhea". 3. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux". 4. Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into German only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the Read more
Predictions from Paul Gillin - Editor-in-chief of Techtarget! Worth a read! Software trends -- A convergence of trends epitomized by Google and the amazing speed at which it delivers new features will cause vendors and enterprises to change the way they build software. The new approach will be open-beta development with community participation and frequent new releases. Essentially, we'll use software while it's being developed. This trend plus code reusability will change commercial software development. Vendors that don't leverage these tactics will become irrelevant. Users will also demand that commercial software take on a more service-oriented approach so they can mix and match. As a result, the industry will begin to shed its not-invented-here bias and truly reform its approach to software. This will cause shifts in the cost structure of the business and eventually to changes in the power structure. But that's a good thing, right? Read more
China and India combining their resources to jointly bid on Oil fields.. so that they dont outbid each other and raise the price of oil for themselves! Thats a great strategy.. the only issue is that it has been rather difficult to trust the Chinese friendship.. In so much as this deal from the Indian side factors in the inethical and aggressive nature of the Chinese Govt. this is a great start! This kind of joint bidding also spells danger to the Western countries... specially US.. who may want to get aggressive too.. Oil and Gas may well assume serious ramifications with Russia having already started using it as a state weapon! Read more
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