Is World Investors' Honeymoon with "surging India" over?

Last updated on: November 28, 2012 at 1:35 pm By Desh Kapoor

Interesting discussion between Ashish Chauhan, MD and CEO at BSE Ltd, and Ashish J Singh, chairman of Bain & Company India at the World Economic Forum Ashish Singh discusses the relationship that India has with foreign investors. Singh acknowledges that foreign investors are “confused about India today.” According to Singh, while India offers transparency, the lack of institutional strength that exists has restricted India’s potential. Singh believes that while India is ranked fourth as a foreign investment destination, its potential... Read more

World's Largest Family: Man with 39 wives, 94 kids, 14 daughters in law, and 33 grandkids from Mizoram (Pics Gallery)

Last updated on: November 28, 2012 at 1:14 pm By Desh Kapoor

The largest family in the world belongs to an Indian man, who seems like doing a Dhritrashtra (100 kids) – except that he is a Christian following a peculiar sect in the Indian state of Mizoram. Residing in a 100-room four story mansion outside of Baktawang in Mizoram, Ziona Chana is married to 39 women with whom he has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law, and 33 grandchildren and lives in hills of Baktwang village in Mizoram. Chana had first married at age... Read more

Sahara Group Acquires landmark New York Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels

Last updated on: November 28, 2012 at 10:50 am By Desh Kapoor

Subrata Roy’s Sahara group is buying two iconic hotels in Manhattan near the Central Park. The New York Plaza and Dream New York are going to be theirs for 4,400 crore ($800 million). They will buy 75% stake in New York Plaza – of which 60 percent is with the Israeli entrepreneur Isaac Tshuva’s Elad Properties and 15% from 15 percent from Kingdom Holdings, owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for USD 400 and 170 million respectively. One finds that... Read more

Is Google already testing its Android 5.0 version Key Lime Pie?

Last updated on: November 28, 2012 at 10:36 am By Desh Kapoor

Google’s 4.2 version of Android Jelly Beans has just become official, and it is already getting ready to unveil its next version – 5.0 Key Lime Pie. In fact the rumor is that one device may be testing it as we speak: Sony LT30i. Android 4.2 was made official only a few weeks ago, and it’s running officially only on a handful of Nexus-branded devices, so it’s definitely too early to talk about Google’s future Android version, which could very... Read more

How does one recognize his Spiritual Guru?

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 9:30 pm By Desh Kapoor

Someone asks Sadhguru as to how does one recognize his Guru. Sadhguru gives a direct and Spiritually relevant answer that seeks to remove all the misconceptions very prevalent today in Spirituality. Read more

How Tiger Hill was won in Kargil War by Indian forces in words of the Grenadier himself

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 8:15 pm By Desh Kapoor

Some battles are such that winning them is almost impossible. It is then that super heroes come up. Yogender Singh Yadav of 18 Grenadiers did what was impossible. Here is the story of how the 18 Grenadiers won the Tiger Hill. The attached video has the story in detail in the voice of Grenadier Yadav himself. It is said that the Grenadiers refused to carry their food so they could carry extra ammunition. The whole operation was undertaken by 18... Read more

Nigerian School Girls power a generator from Pee

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 2:28 pm By Desh Kapoor

In a country of chronic shortage, Nigerian school girls have come up with an idea to harness the Urine to power a generator. It may not be commercial viable or useful, but it is still intriguing 🙂 Read more

Pakistani anchor details why Pakistan is indeed a terrorist state

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 1:52 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is a very detailed and well laid out list of reasons why Pakistan is indeed a terrorist state. Like the anchor says, not one major incident of terrorism in the world is without the Pakistani fingerprint. And everyone of the incidents in Pakistan, only Muslims were involved. No Indian, no American and no Israeli. Worth listening to. Read more

Akash 2 – India's Cheapest Tablet is "Made in China" and "Designed in Canada"

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 1:13 pm By Desh Kapoor

Akash – the $20 tablet (after subsidy of course) – is being touted as the lowest cost tablet and an indigenous Indian product. Well, it turns out to be anything but. Apparently, it is ONLY being sold in India! It is manufactured and assembled in China. DataWind, the Canada-based company that won a government contract to produce the first 100,000 Aakash tablets, which are bound for India’s colleges and universities, “does only sales,” said Li Junhao, the president of Trend... Read more

Generals and Government have made Indian Army unfit for battle and war

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 12:39 pm By Desh Kapoor

In a very hard hitting article, Ajai Shukla talks about lack of preparedness of the Armed forces, specially the Army. The lack of strategy, lack of ammunition, heavy artillery, tanks and equipment. Worse he talks of how our Generals are both – impotent and beholden to outside influence, specifically Russia. Every effective military intelligence organisation – and Pakistan we know has one – possesses devastating compilations of our army’s crippling shortage of tank ammunition; the night-blindness of our tanks; the... Read more