A new report by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation places India at a shameful No-122 in the ease of doing business. India ranks behind countries like Ethiopia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda in the 2009 ranking on the ease of doing business. India did slightly better (Rank: No-120) in the 2008 Doing Business study. […]
At first glance, this seems straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a piece on Apple in which a Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster attributed the 4% drop in Apple stock price Tuesday in part to concerns that Mr.Jobs appeared thin. But if you think about […]
Travel writer Paul Theroux is in the news again – for his new book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, which re-creates the epic 25,000 mile train odyssey the author first undertook in the mid-1970s and chronicled in the bestseller The Great Railway Bazaar (published in 1975). Around 1975, Theroux rode trains across India including a trip […]
All ye superstitious idiots, rejoice – there’s a new Panchang application on the iPhone. For centuries, the Panchang or calendar, has been the combined equivalent of the Bible, Koran and Torah to guide the Hindu devout to the various festivals and auspicious/inauspicious days. To tap into the Hindu obsession with the Panchang, a new application […]
Saroja – Outright Theft of Judgment Night Make no mistake – Saroja is not a great movie or a must watch movie by any stretch of imagination (pl click here to read Saroja – Outright Theft of Judgment Night). But, this is a big but, Saroja is a lot better than the usual garbage that […]
Sony has recalled certain Notebook computers in the VAIO VGN-TZ100 series, VGN-TZ200 series, VGN-TZ300 series and VGN-TZ2000 series because of a burn hazard to consumers. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that irregularly positioned wires near the notebook’s hinge and/or a dislodged screw inside the hinge can cause a short circuit and overheating […]