The Canadian government is asking Canadians not to use the Neem Active Toothpaste with Calcium manufactured by an Indian company Calcutta Chemical Co Ltd. Canadian health officials say tests on the Neem Active Toothpaste with Calcium have revealed unacceptable levels of diethylene glycol as well as high levels of harmful bacteria in the product. Diethylene […]
Delhi-based real estate developer DLF has won the contract to develop the prestigious Bidadi Knowledge City project for IT companies coming up near Bangalore, according to the Mint. A small town on the Bangalore-Mysore highway, Bidadi is the Karnataka’s government’s response to the infrastructure woes bedevilling India’s IT hub Bangalore. Bidadi Knowledge City is expected to attract […]
Today’s New York Times features a puff piece on Indian entrepreneur Sunil Bharti Mittal tooting his horn about his recent deal with Wal-Mart to set up a wholesale distribution system. Amidst all his prattle about the cold chain, the trucking, storage etc, what caught our attention in the NYT story was Sunil Mittal’s juvenile boast […]
Bowing to the demands of corporations, Governors of 13 U.S. states are demanding an increase in H1-B Work Visas, dealing another blow to the prospects of American programmers and engineers. On Tuesday, Governors of California, Washington, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Minnesota, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Wyoming, Kansas and Indiana wrote to Senator Majority Leader Harry […]
Yes, of course. And so do most governments including India. To believe anything else would be naive. Who can forget the horrifying news reports in the late 1970s of policemen pouring acid into the eyes of undertrial prisoners in Bhagalpur (located in the North Indian state of Bihar) or the recent video footage of a […]
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 […]