The New York Stock Exchange has not permitted trading in Satyam ADRs to resume. The NYSE halted trading in Satyam ADRs on Wednesday prior to the opening of the market after disclosures of accounting irregularities at the company. Acknowledging that trading in the Satyam ADRs was halted today as well, an NYSE spokesman said Thursday: We […]
Looks like our Naxal troglodytes are slow to see the attraction of broadband Internet access. Yes, our Bengali babus are lagging badly in the adoption of broadband. Why is broadband penetration low in West Bengal compared to states with lesser population? Are these luddites forever listening to Rabindra Sangeet or eternally preparing for the dictatorship […]
Controversial Harvard professor Samuel P.Huntington, in our view the world’s greatest political scientist after Plato, has died. To those of you who may never have heard of Samuel Huntington, he was the the author who made the phrase Clash of Civilizations famous. While Huntington has been in the limelight recently after he wrote his famous […]
Incredible India Ad on NYC Bus * A PWD Engineer M.K.Gupta in Uttar Pradesh is brutally beaten up by local politicians for not giving funds for the birthday bash of the state’s Maharani and tortured with electric shocks (according to the autopsy report). Yes, his wife is now a widow. * Bal Thackeray, the leader of […]
Our ‘mission unaccomplished’ blithering idiot of a President George W. Bush threw a $17.4 billion lifeline to Detroit automakers lest they give up the ghost on his watch. To prove yet again that he’s indeed the dodo he’s widely reviled to be, Bush gave the auto industry until March 31 to get its affairs in […]
Some time in the 1990s, an Indian friend who used to visit Ukraine frequently (for reasons of the heart) told us about software like Office, Windows and AutoCAD being openly sold in Kiev and elsewhere for 25 cents. Today, we were reminded of that conversation when we read a piece in CNET that Adobe Photoshop […]