Two new Indian consulates are coming up in Atlanta and Seattle to address the growing Indian community in these cities. India’s Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon made the announcement about the two new consulates during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s current visit to the U.S. Indian Embassy in Washington DC Besides the Indian embassy in Washington DC, India’s […]
Boy, this is straight out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Fans of the heavy metal band Metallica are whining that the music is getting too loud! Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting front page piece on Metallica fans complaining that the music in the band’s latest album Death Magnetic is too loud. […]
The latest report by Transparency International shows India slipping on the Corruption Perceptions Index by 13 points to No-85. As anyone familiar with India knows, the godforsaken nation is one of the most corrupt places on Planet Earth. Whether it’s a village, small town or a big city, nothing ever happens in India without the […]
The latest move by the crooked politicians in Washington to purchase the bad assets of U.S. financial giants for a mind-boggling sum of over $700 billion, the bailout of AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the golden parachutes of fatcat failed CEOs and earlier moves to successfully tighten bankruptcy rules prove beyond doubt – to even […]
The below post first took birth as a comment by a SearchIndia.com blog reader szm on the Bachna Ae Haseeno thread. To give it greater visibility, we are reproducing it below as a separate post. ————————————- Dear Searchindia and all other bloggies Refering to the latest “offering” from the YRF camp, namely BAH (actually should be “BLAH”), […]
Citing “serious manufacturing deficiencies” at plants belonging to Indian drug manufacturer Ranbaxy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned import of over 30 different generic drugs from the company. The Ranbaxy plants under fire are located at Dewas and Paonta Sahib in India. The FDA also sent out two warning letters to Ranbaxy, the […]