With the first phase of elections in Gujarat less than a week away, it’s anybody’s guess whether Dr.Death a.k.a. Narendra Modi can trump India’s Italian Bahu a.k.a Sonia Gandhi. While Chief Minister Narendra Modi is in the dock over communal violence in 2002 that led to the massacre of many Muslims in Gujarat, his arch […]
Yes, Aaja Nachle is a dud at the box office. So, who’s to blame? The stupid movie’s stupid director Anil Mehta, of course. Instead of acknowledging his limited talents as a director, the bozo is whining that critics have harmed his first film Aaja Nachle’s prospects at the box office through their negative reviews. Now, […]
India’s active Internet user base in 2007 is still a pathetic 32 million, according to a new survey report put out by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). This represents a growth of 10.9 million active users over 2006. The IAMAI is also throwing out a figure of 46 million Internet users in the […]
If you really, really care about your life, you’d better read this piece. No kidding. This is scary stuff. Although we’d registered Dr.Atul Gawande’s name on the periphery of our consciousness a while back, his new piece in the December 10, 2007 issue of the New Yorker was the first time we took a dekko at […]
India’s military has carried out its first launch of a single stage interceptor missile against an electronic ballistic missile as target. The interceptor missile launch took place from Wheeler Island, an island off the coast of the east Indian state of Orissa. Indian defense personnel claim that the Endo-atmospheric interceptor intercepted the missile at 15 […]
Following increasing incidents of terrorists strikes and bomb blasts in different corners of the country, India has set up a Multi-Agency Centre and Joint Task Force on Intelligence in its domestic spying agency, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) at Delhi. Indian intelligence officials hope that setting up the Multi-Agency Centre and Joint Task Force on Intelligence at the […]