As Delhi’s doddering Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit bumbles along, the city’s killer buses continue their merciless death ride. Particularly eggregious of Delhi’s buses are the privately owned Blueline buses, popularly – and correctly – referred to as the “killer buses.” According to Saturday’s New York Times, the Blueline buses have already claimed 62 lives this […]
India’s Internet penetration is a pathetic 3% and the lowest of 10 Asia-Pacific countries in a new survey by comScore. According to the comScore World Metrix study,  India took the booby prize in Internet penetration among a group of countries that included Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Internet penetration is calculated […]
It usually takes a lot for the government to get moving in India. But in the case of Pooja Chauhan of Rajkot city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, it actually took a lot less. A lot less clothes, that is. Frustrated by the indifference to her complaints of dowry harassment by her husband […]
No surprise here. Taj Mahal, a monument of love from Mughal king Shah Jahan to his late wife Arjumand Bano Begum (a.k.a. Mumtaz Mahal), was picked by online voters as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Construction of Taj Mahal started in 1632 and was completed in 1648. Some twenty thousand laborers are […]
Six months into 2007, a record number of flops is casting a dark shadow on Bollywood, which has yet to register a single big hit movie this year. With a crop of pitiful moves like Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Shakalaka Boom Boom, Ta Ra Rum Pum, Salaam E Ishq, Fool N Final and Guru hitting the screen this […]
IT research vendor IDC has developed a new Global Delivery Index, which forecasts that Chinese cities will overtake Indian cities like Bangalore and Mumbai in offshoring by 2011. Currently, Indian cities are highly ranked with Chinese cities said to be nipping at India’s heels. According to IDC, Bangalore is presently the #1 offshoring destination followed by […]