The head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE)Â Political Division S.P. Tamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan Air Force aerial bombardment on Friday at 6.00 AM local time, according to a LTTE web site. A note on the LTTE web site said:Â With deep sorrow we announce to the people of Tamil Eelam, […]
Penthouse Pet of the Year (2003) and desi sex bomb Sunny Leone is set to wed her boyfriend Matt Erickson in March next year. Sunny’s Mr.Right is said be an executive with the adult movie business. Born in Sarnia, Ontario (Canada) to immigrant parents from India, the 26-year-old sizzler moved to sunny California in 1996. […]
Higher operating expenses caused Rediff’s profits to fall by 40% in its second quarter to $890,000 (3.04 cents per ADS) compared to $1.5 million (5.14 cents per ADS) in the year earlier period. Revenues rose 18% to $7.8 million from $6.6 million in the year-ago period. Operating expenses increased by 29% to $5.39 million compared […]
India has fallen a few notches in the latest Global Competitiveness Index released by the World Economic Forum. India’s rank fell to 48 in the 2007-2008 GCI Index behind former Communist nations like Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Latvia. Last year India fared better with a rank of 42. The United States maintained its status […]
Oh boy, oh boy. As Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cozies up to the Bush Administration, his youngest daughter Amrit Singh blasts the same administration for borrowing methods from tyrannical regimes (and she is right). In her new book Administration of Torture, Manmohan Singh’s U.S-based daughter Amrit Singh plunges the dagger deep into the rotting […]
Internet darling Google’s shares surged past $700 for the first time on Wednesday barely a few weeks after the stock breached the $600 barrier. Defying commonsense, Google shares closed at $707 Wednesday giving the Internet search company a market capitalization of $220.7 billion. Consider this – Google’s market capitalization is now higher than that of […]