News coming out of India suggests that 60,000 contract employees at the top IT firms in India have been shown the door. Mumbai newspaper DNA is reporting based on anecdotal evidence and interviews with staffing firms that 60,000 contract workers have received pink slips. That seems like a very high estimate to us given that the […]
American auto makers Ford, GM and Chrysler were back before Congress today with their begging bowl. In proposals presented to Congress today, the three Detroit Idiots are seeking a total of $34 billion to keep going, $9 billion more than what they pleaded for last month. Here’s the split: * GM wants $18 billion * […]
Struggling Bollywood clowns Riteish Deshmukh and Ram Gopal Varma have launched a new initiative in Mumbai to salvage their ho-hum careers and simultaneously boost India’s miserable track record on tourism – Terror Tourism. As part of the Terror Tourism launch, Riteish Deshmukh, a Bollywood non-actor par excellence, and Ram Gopal Varma, the maker of horror shows […]
This is beyond pathetic. In an act of monumental folly, the U.S. government is throwing the Vikram Pandit-led Citigroup a $306 billion lifeline following the collapse of its shares last week. This is on top of the $25 billion the government has already put into Citigroup under the TARP (Troubled asset Relief Program) initiative. The […]
Stay away from Yuvvraaj. Just keep way from this dungheap of a movie that’s offensive beyond redemption. Rain Man (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise) is a great Hollywood classic, the winner of four Oscars. Yuvvraaj is an ugly, pitiful Bollywood copy of Rain Man that offers nothing but dollops of misery to unsuspecting moviegoers. Dustin […]
Gautam Menon’s mega-folly and depressingly disgusting Cooum Dump of a movie Vaaranam Aayiram (Surya), is a box office disaster in the U.K., according to the numbers from the UK Film Council. Even trashy Tamil films like Kuselan, Kuruvi, Bheema and Billa fared better in the U.K. than Vaaranam Aayiram. And why not – Vaaranam Aayiram […]