The FT is reporting that Indian auto company Mahindra & Mahindra is also interested in Ford’s Land Rover and Jaguar units. According to the FT piece, Mahindra is conducting due diligence on Land Rover and Jaguar. Tata Motors has already expressed its interest in the two Ford brands. See our earlier posting on Tata Eyeing […]
Embattled Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has agreed to step down as the country’s military chief before the upcoming elections. In a deal reached with Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto, Musharraf is also said to have agreed to drop corruption charges against Bhutto and other politicians. General Musharraf, who seized power from the civilian government […]
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 […]
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is most likely headed back to his father-in-law’s place on September 27. Now out on bail, Sanjay Dutt will have to return to his father-in-law’s place once he is served with a copy of the judgment (readers of Rabindranath Tagore’s fine story Kabuliwallah will recognize that father-in-law’s home is an euphemism for jail). Sanjay […]
Update: Salman Khan was arrested on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Bollywood star Salman Khan will soon be a guest of the Indian prison system for poaching a Chinkara – an endangered species of gazelle – in 1998. Salman Khan’s appeal against a five-year sentence awarded in a 2006 court ruling was rejected by an Indian […]
Brazil’s state-run public health system will pay even for sex-change operations. Brazil’s Health Ministry said Saturday that the public health system would provide free sex-change operations to citizens in compliance with a court order. Brazilian lawyers successfully argued that sexual reassignment surgery is covered under a constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right. Transsexuals are […]