Posted in Education, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Observation, Tech News, tagged Evaluseserve, Indian Economy, News, NRIs, Reverse Brain Drain, Technology, US Economy on 31 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
India has initiated reverse brain drain. Realizing how many scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionals they loose every year, Indian government is taking steps to lure them back to the country.
The scheme for NRIs, though still in infancy, has already netted at least 40 PHDs and MTechs working in academics or industry in countries like [...]
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Posted in From Headlines, Information, Interesting, Movies, Sports, TV, tagged Animation, Comic, Davis Cup, Jai Natarajan, Leander Paes, Leander Sport Private Limited, News, Sports, Superhero, Tennis, The Magic Racquet on 31 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leander Paes, who has saved India from several Davis Cup disasters and a medal hope at the Beijing Olympic Games in August, is going to play a miracle man who helps school kids in cartoon television series called The Magic Racquet.
Not much has been disclosed about the story line. Paes will play roughly his [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Delhi, Indian History, Interesting, News and Views, Society, Travel, Writing, tagged Author, British School, City of Djinns, Fiction, India, Jaunapur, Mother Teresa, Olivia, The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple on 31 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
William Dalrymple’s love for India is not unknown. He has penned six books, of which five have embraced Indian life as their storyline and have been award winning. India has sewn itself into his life since long now with him spending a lot of time in New Delhi India apart from London and Edinburgh.
However, [...]
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Posted in Announcements, From Headlines, Interesting, News and Views, Tech News, tagged 612 Scaglietti, Ferrari, Gabriel Lalli, Harvey Nichols, India, India's Billionaires, Luxury, News, Rattan Tata, Retail, Rolls Royce, Tata Motors on 31 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ferrari has announced that they will soon open 6 showrooms in India by 2010. There are about 36 Ferrari cars plying in India which were sold through Ferrari’s Singapore hub. Ferrari has five models which range between $276,280 on the lower side to $ 363,120 at the upper end.
Ferrari recently - and rather bravely [...]
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Posted in Announcements, Chennai, Delhi, From Headlines, General, In My Opinion, Interesting, Kolkata, Mumbai, News and Views, Observation, tagged 2008, carbon emission, Earth Hour, global warming, India, March 29, San Francisco, Sydney on 28 March 2008 | 12 Comments »
India has decide to stay illuminated when the world will switch off for Earth Hour between 8 and 9 pm on March 29. As of today no Indian city has officially joined the campaign to black out to show that India too is in the crusade to reduce global warming.
So far, 35 nations, 370 cities, [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, General, Interesting, Kolkata, Metro News, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Jaya Bachchan, Director Jayabrato Chatterjee, Usha Uthup, Mir Taqi Mir, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali, Cinema, Om Puri, Mallika, Shahana Chatterjee, Dom Mores, Last Train to Innocence, MAMI International Film Festival on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
Kolkata is celebrating Jaya Bachchan’s latest in Bengali cinema Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. However Bengali has been used sparsely in [...]
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Posted in Announcements, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, Interesting, News and Views, tagged Altagamma, Brad Pitt, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, CII, Diesel, DKNY, George Clooney, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Tom Cruise on 27 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do not be surprised if you see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Tom Cruise wearing a Sherwani. Italian fashion giant, Giorgio Armani, has included sherwani in its collection.
India is 3rd most brand conscious country in the world with Greece leading the way followed by Hong Kong.
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Posted in Activities, Cultural, Delhi, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, News and Views, Sports, tagged Aamir Khan, Beijing Olympics, Coca Cola, Coca Cola Environment Champions, India, Kiran Bedi, Olympic, Torchbearer, Water Conservation on 25 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Aamir Khan, accompanied by five other torchbearers Dr. Narayan G Hegde- President, BAIF Development Research Foundation, Dr. Kiran Bedi - noted officer in the Indian Police Service (IPS) and founder Navjyoti foundation, Ravi Singh- Secretary General & CEO, World Wildlife Fund India and Atul Singh, President & CEO, Coca-Cola India. Y. Subhash Chandra Reddy- [...]
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Posted in Education, From Headlines, General, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Tech News, tagged Indian, News, USA, Technology, TATA, Rattan Tata, Tata Sons, Yahoo, Pune, Apache Hadoop, Cloud Computing, Ron Brachman, Hadoop Summit, Google, Supercomputers, CRL, Computational Research Laboratories on 24 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yahoo has struck an agreement with Computational Research Laboratories, a unit of Tata Sons Ltd., to pursue research on “cloud computing” technologies. Yahoo said the project with the laboratory in Pune would use the world’s fourth-fastest supercomputer and Apache Hadoop, a framework for creating software that can handle large amounts of data using several computers.
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, Movies, News and Views, tagged News, Famous Five, Enid Blyton, Jyoti, Jo, Tomboy Georgina, Disney, Steve Aranguren, Disney Channel, Cartoon on 24 March 2008 | No Comments »
Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five have undergone a radical 21st-century makeover for a new Disney cartoon series Famous Five: On The Case. The members of the new Famous Five are children of the original five created in 1942 - team leader Julian, Dick, George, Anne and the dog Timmy. They are Jo, Max, Allie and [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Indian History, Interesting, Movies, Mumbai, News and Views, tagged Ameen Sayani, director Shakti Samanta, Indian Cinema, Indian Post, Kiran Shantaram, Madhubala, Madhubhushan, Magic of Films, Mahafilmpex, Manoj Kumar, Mumbai, Nargis, News, Shashikala, Stamps on 19 March 2008 | No Comments »
Venus of the Indian screen Madhubala is honored by Indian Postal Service: on 18 March 2008 a stamp was released in her memory. After Nargis, Madhubala is the second Indian actress to have a stamp released in her honor.
The Indian Postal Service organized a special two-day event in Mumbai on Indian cinema titled Magic of [...]
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