Search giant Google is looking to offer an online data storage service that will let consumers store their files on the company’s hard drives, access them on the Internet and share them online with friends, according to a story in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Apparently, the plan is to offer some free storage with additional […]
Terrorists attacked India’s holy city of Varanasi and two other cities Lucknow and Faizabad on Friday killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens others. All three cities have a very long history of communal tension between Hindus and Muslims. The bomb attacks happened between 1:10PM-1:25PM local time outside the premises of the courts in […]
Update: Broadway Strike ended on November 28, 2007 As the strike by the stagehands continues this busy holiday season, the lights remain off on much of Broadway, New York’s busy theater district near Times Square. Stagehands, the folks who work behind the scenes to create all those magnificent Broadway shows, are at war with the […]
It’s an American tragedy. If there is one constant in American society, it’s the growing prison population. With the highest incarceration rate in the world, America’s prison population still keeps growing at a distressingly high rate primarily because of tough sentencing guidelines and lack of support systems to integrate released prisoners into society. The U.S. […]
Our Kerala girl Rachel Paulose is facing strong headwinds in her job as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Of course, we knew Rachel Paulose was in trouble. But the magnitude of opposition she faces surprised us after reading today’s New York Times. The essential criticism against Rachel Paulose seems to be that […]
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan’s reincarnation-based film Om Shanti Om handily beat Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya featuring debutantes Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor at the U.S. box office for the November 9-11 opening weekend. According to U.S. box office numbers, Om Shanti Om came in at a respectable No-11 with a weekend gross collection of $1.76 million. […]