Search giant Google has joined the Band of Angels in India as an institutional investor. Band of Angels is a bunch of Angel investors looking to invest in early stage businesses in the areas of IT products & services, retail, high end BPO, biotech & pharma, Internet, media & entertainment and leading edge technology in […]
A mediocre Indian politician Pratibha Patil was elected as the country’s first woman President. The nominee of the ruling coalition at the center, 72-year-old Patil is a lightweight politician with little achievement to her credit. Patil won two-thirds of the electoral college votes defeating her rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who was backed by the opposition […]
Medical researchers in the U.S. have discovered that Turmeric, a key ingredient of Curry that gives the spicy Indian food its distinctive yellow color, has properties that can fight the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. Named after the German physician Alois Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s is a disease that attacks the brain and is the most common form of dementia. […]
As Delhi’s doddering Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit bumbles along, the city’s killer buses continue their merciless death ride. Particularly eggregious of Delhi’s buses are the privately owned Blueline buses, popularly – and correctly – referred to as the “killer buses.” According to Saturday’s New York Times, the Blueline buses have already claimed 62 lives this […]
India’s Internet penetration is a pathetic 3% and the lowest of 10 Asia-Pacific countries in a new survey by comScore. According to the comScore World Metrix study,  India took the booby prize in Internet penetration among a group of countries that included Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Internet penetration is calculated […]
It usually takes a lot for the government to get moving in India. But in the case of Pooja Chauhan of Rajkot city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, it actually took a lot less. A lot less clothes, that is. Frustrated by the indifference to her complaints of dowry harassment by her husband […]