Manmohan Singh’s Daughter Nails Bush Lies on Torture

Oh boy, oh boy. As Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cozies up to the Bush Administration, his youngest daughter Amrit Singh blasts the same administration for borrowing methods from tyrannical regimes (and she is right). In her new book Administration of Torture, Manmohan Singh’s U.S-based daughter Amrit Singh plunges the dagger deep into the rotting […]

Tulipmania, DotCom Mania & Now Google Mania

Internet darling Google’s shares surged past $700 for the first time on Wednesday barely a few weeks after the stock breached the $600 barrier. Defying commonsense, Google shares closed at $707 Wednesday giving the Internet search company a market capitalization of $220.7 billion. Consider this – Google’s market capitalization is now higher than that of […]

Indian Perfume Millionaires Slavery Trial Begins

The trial of Mahender Muralidhar Sabhnani and his wife Varsha Mahender Sabhnani charged with enslaving and abusing two Indonesian women servants opened in a Federal Court in Long Island on Monday. Mahender Sabhnani, 51, and Varsha Sabhnani, 45, residents of the wealthy enclave of Muttontown in Long Island have pleaded not guilty to a 12-count federal […]

Media Laggard HT Gets Social Networking Itch

Social networking web sites seem to be the big rage in Internet-land with News Corp, Microsoft and Google all owing a piece of the action in this hot segment. Now media laggard HT Media, parent company of the Hindustan Times newspaper, has belatedly developed the social networking itch. The slow-moving HT Media says its subsidiary Firefly e-Ventures […]

BSE Sensex Defies Gravity; Hits 20,000 Mark

On Monday, the Indian stock market sent a strong message of the economic vibrancy in the country to visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson by driving the BSE Sensex to a record high of 20,000 points. The BSE Sensex is an index of 30 large and actively traded stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange. After […]

U.S. Pressures India To Sign Nuclear Deal

Senior U.S. officials are quietly pressuring India to sign the nuclear deal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put on the backburner because of domestic political compulsions. After all, at stake for the American companies like GE and Westinghouse are multi-billion dollar contracts. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Chief Spokesman for big American businesses, […]

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