1 in 4 U.S. Teenage Girls has VD

U.S. teenage girls have a high rate of venereal disease a.k.a. sexually transmitted infections (STI). One in every four teenage girls in U.S. has at least one of the most common venereal diseases, according to a recent study conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Based on the study, the authors conservatively estimate that 3.2 million […]

Desi Girl Shivani Sud Wins Intel Science Talent Prize

A pretty Indian-American girl Shivani Sud won the top prize at the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition in the U.S. on Tuesday. As the grand prize winner, Shivani Sud gets a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation. This is the first time that an Indian-American student has won the top prize, which is often […]

Incredible India Incredibly Unsafe for Tourists

Tourists to India – Beware. You could lose your life, be molested, raped and attacked. And the Indian police will do little to help you or investigate the incident. India’s police will most likely deny the incident and attempt to cover it up. India’s tourism campaign is called Incredible India. But the campaign might more […]

India Does Not Count – Parag Khanna

We are currently reading Parag Khanna’s new book The Second World – Empires and Influence in The New Global Order, the talk of the town these days. Since we couldn’t wait to do a post on the book, we gave it something like the Washington read (flipping through the index to find what’s of interest). […]

McDonald’s = Windows; Chinese Restaurants = Linux

We have yet to read Jennifer 8. Lee’s new book The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food but we plan to pick it up soon. Meanwhile, here’s an excerpt from today’s New York Times review of The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Lee presents an intriguing idea in a chapter called “Open-Source Chinese Restaurants,” […]

Teradata Sets up Global Consulting Centre in Pune

Data warehousing expert Teradata has opened a second Global Consulting Centre in India at Pune. Teradata’s Pune Global Consulting Centre will offer business intelligence solutions for telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, banking and insurance industries in the Americas. Teradata selected Pune because of its talented pool of mature IT professionals and IT educational institutions that can provide […]