India would most likely be celebrating the 150th anniversary of its Independence not the anniversary of a failed mutiny if only the South and West had joined in instead of watching from the sidelines. Writing in the Oxford History of Modern India, Percival Spears observes that: The Madras and Bombay Presidencies were hardly touched by […]
Mayawati’s Bahujan Samajan Party made mincemeat out of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, BJP and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Party in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections of April/May 2007. The BSP won 207 seats, large enough to form a government on its own. Following the defeat of his Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh […]
Hotel chain Hilton is expanding its committment to the Indian market and plans to invest as much as $143 million over the next seven years through a joint venture with DLF Properties. The joint venture, DLF-Hilton Hotels, plans to develop 75 mid-range hotels in different Indian cities including Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Goa and Mysore, reports […]
The year was 1987. A year of many momentous events: * Dow Jones Index closed over 2,000 for the first time. * Perl programming language came into being. * One of my favorite British writers Alistair Maclean passed away. * Work on the Channel Tunnel began. * We had our first glimpse of a very […]
Iconic American motorbike company Harley Davidson is still keen on entering India despite the trade barriers, says LiveMint, Hindustan Times‘ new business daily. C-DOT hangs up on 3-G, reports the Hindu Businessline. IBM VC group eyes India, according to the Economic Times. Shiromani Akali Dal working president Sukhbir Badal has rolled out a Rs 350 billion economic […]
By now, virtually all of us have received an e-mail from someone in Nigeria offering to share his millions with us if only we would send him some details – ideally a Western Union money transfer or other forms of payment “to cover some local processing fees.” But scam artists from Nigeria are not new. They’ve […]