The Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit-led financial mess Citigroup reported a hefty loss of $5.1 billion on revenues of $13.2 billion in its first quarter ended March 31 and will throw another 9,000 employees on the streets. On a conference call with analysts, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit acknowledged: To start with, we’re not happy with our […]
Web domain name registrar Network Solutions has named Kamalesh Dwivedi its Chief Information Officer. At Network Solutions, Kamalesh will be responsible for overseeing operations, engineering, enterprise data services and program management. Before joining Network Solutions, Kamalesh worked as Executive VP and CIO of BPO TeleTech Holdings. Kamalesh previously worked for broadband equipment company ADC Telecommunications and set-top […]
Shahrukh Khan Stopped at US Airport Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan does not like America, according to an interview he gave recently to the The Times (of London not the Mumbai rag Times of India). Shahrukh Khan minced no words about America in his interview with Anil Sinanan, Times Bollywood Film Critic: I don’t like America. […]
After days of dilly-dallying, the Mumbai Police finally gathered the courage to arrest Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, who has been inciting locals against Mumbai residents who hail from other states of India like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Raj Thackeray, who is the nephew of Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, was arrested on Wednesday after a […]
 Nov.26, 2008 – Terrorists Strike Mumbai; 80 Killed; 250 Injured Bollywood star and Bombay blast convict Sanjay Dutt has scored a hatrick with his recent third marriage. The Bad Boy of Bollywood married his girlfriend Manyata on Monday. Manyata is wife No-3 for 48-year-old Sanjay Dutt, a former drug addict and the son of late […]
Murlidhar Devidas Amte, popularly known as Babe Amte, has died. The 94-year-old social worker died of cancer at his Anandwan Ashram (in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra) on Friday. A follower of Gandhi, Baba Amte took up several worthy causes including care of leprosy patients and rehabilitation of tribals impacted by construction of large dams.