Amazon.com’s new online music store Amazon MP3 offers songs in several Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Kannada. We checked the Amazon store for songs from old and new Hindi and Tamil movies including Aradhana, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dhoom and Ilamai Oonjaladigirathu (Tamil). Guess what, we found ’em all there. A preview option […]
The good news – Zimbabwe’s official inflation rate is down by nearly a thousand percentage points. The bad news – the official inflation rate in this African nation is still a whopping 6,592.8%. Independent economists peg the real inflation rate many times higher than the official rate. Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the […]
China will continue to remain the preferred investment destination for businesses – not India – over the next five years, according to a new report. China will continue to significantly outpace India in attracting foreign direct investment between now and 2011, according to the report from the Economist‘s Economist Intelligence Unit. FDI inflows into India are set […]
Indian TV viewers have never had it so good or so bad (depending on the viewer). Some 100 TV channels are supposed to be launched over the next 12 months with more to come. While this huge expansion in TV channels means so much more choice for viewers, it also portends intense competition for ad […]
Media house Times Group’s new YoList classifieds web site has debuted, adding to the clutter in this online advertising segment. YoList has been launched in beta (trial version) and currently all ads posted on the web site are free. Registered users of Times Group’ portal IndiaTimes.com can use their existing user id and password to access the […]
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 […]