Bollywood’s yesteryear dancing queen Madhuri Dixit will be back on the Big Screen this Friday in Aaja Nachle after a gap of six years. Madhuri Dixit thrilled Bollywood movie fans with her pretty looks and fine dancing skills in scores of Hindi movies from 1986 to 2002 when she called it quits after her marriage […]
Reeling from massive losses due to its disastrous missteps in the subprime mortgage segment, embattled financial services giant Citigroup is getting a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Gulf nation Abu Dhabi through a sale of Equity Units convertible into shares. The Abu Dhabi investment is expected to close within the next several days. The badly-needed cash […]
Search giant Google is looking to offer an online data storage service that will let consumers store their files on the company’s hard drives, access them on the Internet and share them online with friends, according to a story in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Apparently, the plan is to offer some free storage with additional […]
One of the most fascinating books on India is the work Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies by that Christian bigot Abbe Dubois, who traveled widely in South India in the late 18th century and early 19th century. A resident of India from 1792-1823, Duboi, a French man, had the opportunity to observe the customs and […]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting piece today on the recent stock surge in the Ambanis’ Reliance group of companies controlled by the two brothers Mukesh and his estranged younger brother Anil Ambani, who run different companies. According to the WSJ, the steep stock surge has taken the two Ambanis’ total worth […]
Terrorists attacked India’s holy city of Varanasi and two other cities Lucknow and Faizabad on Friday killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens others. All three cities have a very long history of communal tension between Hindus and Muslims. The bomb attacks happened between 1:10PM-1:25PM local time outside the premises of the courts in […]