Happy Indian Independence Day

November 9th, 2007 I wish you all a Happy Diwali and Kalipuja and many many happy returns of the same. Everywhere is filled with sounds of firecrackers.

October 18th, 2007 Wish all Indian's and others a Happy Durga Puja / Dussera and many happy returns of the same. Our offices will be minimally operating till Sunday on account of Puja Holidays.

March 21st, 2008 Holi is the festival of radiance, colors and usher in spring. I wish you all a happy Holi / Dol (as we Bengalis say) and hope that you all remain safe (no colors in eye).

December 14th, 2007 I just came back from a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was an interesting experience.

February 5th, 2007 India is the ideal place to conduct human trial for the effectiveness of DCA ( dichloroacetate ) as anti-cancer drug. The government regulations for human trial aren't as stringest as USA, there are funds available for such studies and frankly you don't need much.

November 14th, 2005 Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, Korea's two global electronics makers, have reduced their Indian workforce in India, opting instead to outsource its operations to India. "We work project-by-project, so we move between India and South Korea.

January 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Rs.70 billion ($1.4 billion) financial scam in Satyam Computer Services is an isolated case and does not tarnish the image of the Indian corporate sector in any way, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said here Saturday. 'India Inc has established its credentials.

December 11th, 2005 I want to create a list of Java blogger's in India or of Indian origin. If you are one please state so with your url in the comment below.

April 24th, 2005 Reuters reports that some joker sold Indian Prime Minister's house on Ebay to an American business man! And I thought selling the Brooklyn bridge was a myth! The businessman forked out 35 million rupees ($802,600) for the house that was up for sale on a Web site as a "huge sprawling mansion in the heart of Lutyen's Delhi with 24x7 running water and electricity", the ‘Hindustan Times’ said. He soon received the title deed for the house and arrived in the Indian capital late in March to take possession of the house for an office he planned to set up only to discover he had been cheated.

June 30th, 2007 A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED.

January 26th, 2009 HYDERABAD - PriceWaterhouse has suspended two of its employees for their alleged involvement in the fraud at Satyam Computer Services, the Indian arm of the global auditing firm said Tuesday. 'In light of recent allegations, chief relationship partner S.

January 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Satyam Computers Services fraud that has shaken the Indian software services sector will not have any cascading impact on the other players, Communications and IT Minister A. Raja said Friday.

January 11th, 2009 CHENNAI - Perhaps for the first time in the Indian corporate history, an audit firm - and a foreign one at that - is being dumped midway by a company. The government-appointed new board for Satyam Computer Services has declared that the fraud-hit IT bellwether will have a new audit firm to restate the books of accounts.

June 23rd, 2009 Indian outsourcer Mahindra Satyam gets new CEOMUMBAI, India — Mahindra Satyam, a rebranded Indian outsourcing company nearly brought down in a $1 billion fraud, said Tuesday that C.P. Gurnani, an executive from its new controlling shareholder, has been appointed chief executive.

June 6th, 2006 IBM is spending 6 billion USD in the next three years to extend and improve its Indian operations. In the last three years IBM has already spent 2 billion dollars in India.