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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Among the many opportunistic skunks that litter the Indian political landscape, it’s hard to find two worse specimens than the political parties JD(S) and BJP in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Barely a few weeks after the JD(S) reneged on its promise to turn over the position of Chief Minister to the Hindu nationalist […]
Remember FEMA, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency clowns who botched up the Katrina relief operations? Well, the FEMA buffoons are at it again, doing what they do best – Making an ass of themselves. In the latest incident, the FEMA bozos organized a fake press conference the other day to discuss the California wildfires where their […]