See the guy below carefully!! He is the kind of guys India needs to guard against! They are uneducated and totally drunk on politics! This idiot actually made it as the Indian PM!!!! News Link Using India’s premier IT show platform, former Prime minister and JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda on Wednesday launched a fresh offensive against a section of IT sector, accusing them of carrying on a ‘whispering campaign’ to destabilise his party’s coalition government with Congress in Karnataka. Read more
Here is a section on the "Cost of the American Dream" Cost to live in the West Cost to live in Midwest Cost to live in South Read more
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Read more
Here are the latest rankings from Businessweek on the Executive MBAs. These are the top 10: 1. Northwestern University 2. University of Pennsylvania 3. University of Chicago 4. University of Michigan 5. UNC Chapel-Hill 6. Emory University 7. IMD 8. USC 9. Duke University 10. Georgetown University go to this pdf file for more Read more
Source: SIFY News Highlight: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that India was not to blame for the delay in affording relief to Pakistani earthquake victims from across the Line of Control (LoC) in earthquake-devastated Kashmir. His comments came hours after Pakistani soldiers objected to the construction of a footbridge by Indian troops across the LoC to allow Pakistani quake victims to cross into Kashmir. "The delay is not on our side," Singh told reporters in New Delhi, when asked to comment on bilateral plans to open the LoC at pre-selected points to help out the tens of thousands of quake victims. Read more
Here is an article from Knowledge@Wharton and it presents the view of one international private equity firm Reasons why Warburg Pincus is bullish on India: (courtesy: Indianstock blog) * Foreign institutional investment has boomed (more than $12 billion in 2003-04) as curbs on foreign investment in Indian industries have been relaxed; there is a virtually open skies approach to investment from the United States. * Gross domestic product has grown at rates between 6.5% and 8% in recent years. * The volatility of the Indian rupee has been curbed and inflation has declined. “There are smart people running that economy. Read more
Just for the record: Education: BA in economics, 1975, Harvard University; PhD in economics, 1979, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Experience: • June 2005 to present, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. • 2002-2005, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. • 1996-2002, professor and chairman of the Economics Department at Princeton University. • 1985-2002, economics professor at Princeton University. Family: Wife Anna; two children. Read more
Read this story! Apparently, the London police knew one of the bombers as a potential terror suspect BEFORE the bombings. IN FACT THEY HAD EVEN FILMED HIM! Wow... what more did they want?? These guys to RING them up to tell their plans???? Intelligence officials secretly filmed one of the four bombers who killed 52 people on London's transport network in July the year before the attack, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, featured in a 2004 surveillance operation speaking to a British-based terrorism suspect, according to the report, which cited a single, unnamed "well-placed source". Read more
This guy - Sanjay Kumar Sinha taught English grammAr for 73 hrs and 24 mins to a class continuously!! I could understand if it was an interesting subject.. but ENGLISH GRAMMAR?? An Indian has taught a marathon non-stop, no-sleep English grammar class for three days to 60 students in the city of Mumbai (Bombay). Sanjay Kumar Sinha taught for 73 hours and 24 minutes in an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest lesson. The current record is held by a Polish man, Elzbieta Malinowska, who taught for 66 hours in June 2004. Read more
This bird flu stuff is serious! It can affect the entire world in a way that we all will regret. Maybe its time for the world to become vegetarian now? 🙂 Here is a news item from BBC on the 3rd outbreak in China!! China has reported its third major outbreak of bird flu in two weeks. Officials said 545 chickens and ducks died of the virus in a village in the central Hunan province, and almost 2,500 had been killed as a precaution. Earlier outbreaks hit Inner Mongolia and Anhui provinces, but so far China has seen no human bird flu deaths. Read more
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