The New York Times has an interesting piece today on India’s growing appetite for military weapons. According to the NYT piece, India wants to spend a humongous amount of money on its military in the near future: Over the next five years, military analysts expect the country to spend as much as $40 billion on […]
With a population of 1.2 billion people, India has a lot of mouths to feed. A lot of mouths, indeed. India’s total foodgrain production target for 2007-2008 is 221.5 million tonnes, the country’s Minister of State for Agriculture Kanti Lal Bhuria told Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Parliament on Friday. For pulses, the production […]
The top 20 private equity and hedge fund managers in the U.S. – all White men – made on average $675.5 million (Rs 2,700 crore) in 2006, or 22,255 times the pay of an average U.S. worker, according to a Forbes study cited in a new report called Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost […]
Indian movies will earn $208 million (Rs 850 crore) in 2007 in the overseas market, India’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting P.R.Dasmunsi told the country’s parliament on Wednesday. Last year, Indian movies are said to have earned $171 million in the overseas markets. Indian movies in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and other languages are usually […]
After several years of displacing high-paying U.S. IT jobs through its low cost Indian outsourcing operations, Azim Premji’s Wipro Technologies is now throwing a few crumbs to the Americans. Wipro Technologies said Monday that it’s setting up a new software development center in Atlanta that would hire 200 employees in the first year and grow to […]
Oh, my god…this is one of the funniest videos we’ve seen on YouTube in a long time. Living in USA, you can’t but help notice this “issue” of why Asian guys don’t seem to get White girls. It’s always the other way around. There’s even an Indian angle to this video towards the end. We […]