U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama trounced rivals Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic primaries in South Carolina. Obama got 55% of the votes while Hillary secured 27% and Edwards 18%. Following his decisive victory in South Carolina, Obama said: Tonight, the cynics that said what began in the snows of Iowa was just an […]
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates are giving $27 million through their charitable foundation to assist Indian farmers in developing micro-irrigation techniques. The grant is being routed through International Development Enterprises. The goal of the project is to assist up to 250,000 smallholder farm families—1.75 million people—in 14 states of India and boost […]
Infosys Technologies Limited is considered a paragon of virtue among Indian businesses. That of course is fiction. You don’t believe us? Go look at Infosys’ IPO documents dating back to the early 1990s. What did Infosys tell you they were raising money for in the IPO prospectus? Did the company do as promised in the […]
If you thought Ajith’s Billa was bad, you ain’t seen real bad until you’ve seen Vikram’s Bheema. Bheema achieves the odious distinction of having nothing going for it. Not the story. Not the acting. Not the music. Not the dances. And definitely not the action scenes. Dooming this worthless piece of garbage from the get-go, […]
Frankly, we think Bobby Jindal stinks. At least, Jindal’s views on abortion do. We also think Jindal is a phony, a Christian fanatic (or at least pretends to be in a state where religion is very important to its citizens) and lacks the experience to handle a complex task like governing a backward and corrupt […]
Citigroup’s new CEO Vikram Pandit has already started sacrificing employees on the altar of saving the financial institution that is buffeted by the subprime mortgage meltdown and incompetent management. Early reports suggest that 4,200 Citigroup employees have already lost their jobs with thousands more job losses to come.