Raw Opinions on India Today 9/21/2007

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

November 5th, 2006 I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today.

May 28th, 2007 BCCI (Board of Chaos for Cricket in India) cricket team lead by an w%$^ (only words I can think of are non-parliamentary) won over cricket minions Bangladesh and are back to thumping their pathetic little chests. What is interesting is that these ant-killers wimped out when playing a man's game in West Indies.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Now green activists and enthusiasts can share their views, knowledge and even debate issues concerning the environment and nature on a new 'Opinions' page launched by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on its website. The IUCN, the world’s oldest and largest environmental organisation, launched the opinion page Thursday.

June 29th, 2007 Today, 29th June, CN aired the last episode of DragonBall Z. It will start looping again from the beginning from 2nd July.

July 7th, 2007 Waterlogged streets and flooded homes everywhere in Kolkata thanks to inept Kolkata Municipal Corporation and heavy rains last few days. Personally we haven't suffered.

January 11th, 2006 According to the latest list of the Top Travel Destinations by iExplore, an online seller of adventure and experiential travel, India ranks amongst the fifth choicest place to visit in the world in 2004 and 2005. Egypt, Peru, Galapagos and China are the first four top travel destinations.

November 4th, 2008 TRAI* (Telecom regulatory body) report on growth of telecom in India for September reveals some startling facts about Mobile growth and penetration in India. Highlights are as follows: Second time India added 1 Cr mobile consumers in September.

March 17th, 2005 A seismologist in India says that the country has moved closer to Indonesia due to the massive earthquake which triggered the tsunami in December. The findings of Dr Gahlaut's survey reveal that the geographical distance between India and Indonesia - the epicentre of the deadly earthquake - has reduced from distances of five meters to 15 millimetres.

April 30th, 2007 It was very frustrating to watch DragonBall Z dubbed poorly in Hindi in Cartoon Network, India today. It is murder, plain and simple.

January 30th, 2007 In India several households and even companies are looking at PC's in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD).

December 18th, 2005 Microsoft plans to make India a hub for research, product and applications development. It announced plans for investing $1.7 billion over the next four years, and increasing local headcount by 3,000 to 7,000-level.

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.

September 14th, 2005 According to NCAER survey Delhi and Mumbai continue to be the major centres of wealth in India, accounting for half of the roughly 20,000 crorepati (owner of 10 million Rs. or more) households in India.

March 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A downturn in worldwide economy, Satyam's fraud case and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and supply chain and shipping cost issues in China are causing US technology companies to pull back from the two traditional outsourcing locations. Citing these three global factors, an annual survey by BDO Seidman, LLP, one of America's leading accounting and consulting organizations, Tuesday suggested several technology firms would choose US as future outsourcing location over India and China.