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 […]
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 […]
Although we have never published posts by outsiders on this blog in the past, we are making an exception in this instance. The below post is a great response to a comment on our review of U Me Aur Hum. The author Araj, a reader of the SearchIndia.com blog, is responding belatedly to a comment […]
We’ve long believed that most Indian software developers are fit only for Coolie, repetitive tasks. Ask them to develop a decent consumer or small business application and most of them fall flat on their face. Those with long memories will remember that even the “great” Tata Consultancy Services failed to make much headway with the EX accounting […]
Philadelphia-based life science venture capital firm Quaker BioVentures has promoted Geeta Vemuri to Partner. Vemuri was earlier a Principal at the firm. Geeta Vemuri Before joining Quaker in 2003, Vemuri was an associate at Toucan Capital, responsible for investments in seed and start-up biotech companies. She’s also worked as an associate analyst at Salomon Smith […]
Update: Tamil Nadu Bhavan Re-opened by NYC Health Dept Our earliest memories of South Indian restaurants are of dark and dingy interiors, food served in dirty plates or banana leaves and water poured into tall tumblers by sweat-drenched waiters in the dusty small towns and cities of Tamil Nadu in South India. Four decades and […]